An Easy 8×8 Puzzle Solved with Shape Squeeze in 13 Steps

This 8×8 board rates as easy (difficulty score 783). Solving it from scratch takes 13 logical steps, using 7 techniques: Single cell, Row/column exclusion, Adjacency clear, Region confinement, Line confinement, Paired regions, Shape squeeze. Every step below is forced: nothing here is a guess.

1. First, every open cell left in this region sits in row 8, so its marker has to land there; that clears every other open cell in the row.
2. Next, together, two regions have open cells only in rows 6 and 7; with one marker each, those two markers have to fill exactly those two rows, so every other region's open cells there can be cleared.
3. Then, every open cell in column H belongs to the same region, so that region's marker has to be somewhere in this column; that clears every other open cell in the region.
4. After that, place a marker at G5. Column 7 has exactly one open cell left. Placing here clears the rest of row 5, column G, and its region. Placing here also clears its 2 touching neighbours.
5. Now, place a marker at F7. Column 6 has exactly one open cell left. Placing here clears the rest of row 7, column F, and its region.
6. From there, place a marker at B6. Region has exactly one open cell left. Placing here clears the rest of row 6, column B, and its region.
7. Following that, place a marker at A4. Region has exactly one open cell left. Placing here clears the rest of row 4, column A, and its region.
8. First, place a marker at C8. Region has exactly one open cell left. Placing here clears the rest of row 8, column C, and its region.
9. Next, every open cell left in this region sits in column D, so its marker has to land there; that clears every other open cell in the column.
10. Then, every remaining candidate in this region touches E1 and E2, so whichever candidate ends up marked will clear them, and they can be ruled out now regardless of which one wins.
11. After that, place a marker at E3. Region has exactly one open cell left. Placing here clears the rest of row 3, column E, and its region. Placing here also clears its 1 touching neighbour.
12. Now, place a marker at D1. Region has exactly one open cell left. Placing here clears the rest of row 1, column D, and its region.
13. Finally, place a marker at H2. Region has exactly one open cell left.

The key move here was Shape squeeze. Once you can spot that, this board falls quickly. ∎