#A57: Hashiwokakero and Key West

I get the impression that Hashi is a well-known genre despite rarely being set online. I suspect this is because the looseness of its set-based logic alludes to puzzles like Minesweeper but also requires lots of clues, which makes it difficult to construct a hard one without having an idea in mind for the grid as a whole.

https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?hashi/5/5/33.3.12g73.i.32g25.3.33

https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?hashi/12/7/g2i.5h22.22h.h2i2g2k2i.g.j5i2h5i5j2h2h2j.h222g2222g2h

https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?hashi/7/7/1g3g3g3m3g2g2g3m2g1g.g5m3g2g3g3

Key West reminds me more of Sukoro than Hashi. It flows decently well while setting and solving by merit of being both tighter than Hashi and looser than Sukoro. 

https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?keywest/5/5/7ajaam5b

https://pzprxs.vercel.app/p?keywest/12/12/k1chb1ahbhabcbi06bcg0bh21eiaj2bidh613eh23aeddcdeci53b43clbi

I've just noticed on 3/1/26 that there is a small nonuniqueness in the top-left corner. Unfortunately all ways to resolve it don't fit with the give pattern.

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