What Sort Of Puzzle Is THIS?!

** TODAY'S PUZZLE **
One of Simon's favourite types of Japanese logic puzzle is Akari and those clever folk on the Discord server seem to have invented a new form of it!! The idea is that the lights you place in the grid can be of different colours and this seems to open up a new can of logical worms :)

We try three puzzles tonight: the first (by Sam Cappleman-Lynes) is a basic Akari; the second (by Walker Anderson) is an Akari RGB from the Genuinely Approachable Pencil Puzzle series on the Discord server. And the main course is Anomalie Bleue from Wisteria Fall - which has been recommended to us many times.

Play the puzzles at the link below:

Sam's puzzle:
https://puzz.link/p?akari/10/10/m.j65...

Walker's puzzle:
https://link.sudokupad.app/walkers-akari

Wisteria Fall's puzzle, Anomalie Bleue:
https://link.sudokupad.app/wisteriafa...

A special thank you to Pedro PSI for developing the Kudamono Player and Editor support that is being used to create and play these puzzles.

Rules:
Place lights in some unshaded cells so that every unshaded cell is illuminated. Lights illuminate the cell they’re in as well as all cells seen in a straight line horizontally or vertically up to either the first shaded cell or the edge of the grid. Lights may not illuminate each other. A number in a shaded cell counts the lights orthogonally adjacent to that cell.

In the Akari(RGB) puzzles the following additional rules apply:

Each light is either Red, Green or Blue. A clue in an unshaded cell gives the colour resulting from all lights illuminating that cell.

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