Monday, 7 February 2022

Freddie Hand

Do you remember Persistence of Memory? Of course you do, it has persisted in your memories. But what if I told you that the name of today's puzzle - Gemini Loop - was also based off a famous painting by Salvador Dali, painted in his early years? 🖼️

Well, I would be lying. 🤥 But it does bring all the clone-y and path-y goodness that came with Persistence of Memory! Except the path may touch itself both orthogonally and diagonally, and is now a loop.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all cells. Cells containing the same letter must be entered by the loop from the same directions. Cells containing different letters must not. (In other words, each letter corresponds to a unique shape).

Example (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/4vjncn28

PENPA NOTES

-While the table below the grid may be helpful for solving, it does not need to be filled, and in fact must be empty for answer check to work! (So if the whole grid is too large to fit on your screen, it is fine to ignore the table completely and solve that way). Feel free to subtract a few seconds from your time based on how long it took to erase those segments.

-If linex is hard to draw consistently on mobile, it is possible to switch to 'line' mode instead.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Painting Pipipi 🐦

Puzzle (penpa): https://tinyurl.com/mv42ejvs