Friday, 25 March 2022

Eric Fox

Negative constraints (information gained by the lack of a clue) are pretty uncommon in puzzle rulesets. So are rules which depend on the orientation of the puzzle. In today's genre, Russian Loop we get to experience both!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all cells. A dot is given between every pair of horizontally adjacent cells where the loop turns in both or travels straight in both. To be clear, this means that there's a negative constraint which applies to the rows but not the columns.

Example: https://tinyurl.com/y86gupk5

Solve in 3:00 or faster to earn a Speedy Sloth 🦥
Do it in 5:00 or faster to earn a Quick Crab 🦀
All other solvers get an Aythya Marila 🐦

Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/ydbhhd52