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Featured Puzzle: Tile Paint #4 – Find the Pirate!

ByJacob Valdez

Avast, ye swabs! ‘Tis once again International Talk Like a Pirate Day! This grid hides a cold-hearted blaggard for ye to find.

  • Each region in the grid must be either completely shaded, or completely empty. If you fill one cell in a region, you must fill the rest.
  • Numbers around the edge indicate the total of shaded cells in that row or column.
  • A row or column with no number might have any number of shaded cells.

Look for a future Solving Guide for Tile Paint puzzles.

Want to try it online? Click here!

The completed grid. I hope you enjoyed it!

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