Tuesday, 9 August 2022

Freddie Hand

First of all, congratulations to @MikoKisai, @Lesewesen, @chrisj50, @Nona for guessing today's genre! Here are your otters: 🦦 🦦 🦦 🦦 We had a fair few guesses for icebarn as well - were people feeling in a frosty mood? But it isn't even close to Christmas yet??

The absence of magic squares in the CTC server recently has been quite saddening. As Aad van de Wetering's "sudoku with only 4 given digits?!" rapidly accumulated views, the number of users publishing magic square-themed sudokus surged, leaving a group of magic square disbelievers in its wake. But we cannot let magic squares become a relic of a bygone age. This Icelom hopes to reawaken the trend.

Rules: Draw a path through the centers of some cells, entering the grid at the “IN” marking and exiting at the “OUT” marking. All non-icy cells must be visited, and all cells containing numbers must be visited in order. The path may not turn on icy cells. Two perpendicular line segments may intersect each other only on icy cells, but they may not turn at their intersection or otherwise overlap.

Notes
- Contrary to Icebarn, not all icy regions have to be visited.
- Selecting the 'colour each line' option may help with seeing when you would be creating a premature path/loop.
- It is possible to mark x's and small direction indicators on grid edges by right clicking/clicking multiple times.
- Puzz.link may throw the error "the line goes through an arrow reverse". This simply means the numbers have not been visited in the correct order.

Example (Puzz.link, by Eric Fox): https://tinyurl.com/bdpx6w5t

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 , solve in 3:30 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀, solve in 7:15 or less!
And complete the puzzle for a Freezing Flamecrest 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4dn3xwva