Friday, 6 May 2022

Freddie Hand

Today I am going undercover as bakpao to make an important announcement. It's time for Kurotto Kingdom!! 5 trials at the start to adjust, and then 16 competition puzzles, each of which must be solved in a 30-hour window (just like Voxas Vacation and other contests in the series). Check out the post here for further details: Discord message

Wait, what's this? I'm hearing that there's another contest going on? That's right, LMI Puzzle Ramayan Round 4 (Number Placement and Puzz.link) is open! The puzzles are written by Nityant Agarwal, and it promises to be a fun round. Once again you are eligible for a Bonus Otter 🦦 if you take part in the round (or finish the Instructions Booklet). Information is also available in the referenced post.

Today's puzzle is a Passage, invented fairly recently by Andrey Bogdanov, and one of the numerous genres which debuted on the daily puzzle site http://www.puzzleduel.club. I would recommend giving this site a go, (most of) the puzzles are quite good. But after solving this puzzle in penpa+, it may be hard to manage without the luxury of continuous shading...

Rules: Shade some cell to create a 'snake' - a chain of blackened squares which doesn't touch itself even diagonally. The start and end of the path are marked with circles. The path should pass straight through all cells with numbers (i.e the path cannot turn on a cell with a number). Numbers represent the length of the corresponding straight segment of the path. (The start and end of the snake should be shaded for answer check)

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/y2fzw22n

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Passing Piapiac 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yyus2n55