Monday, 22 August 2022

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Congrats to @SudOX for being the only person to guess today's genre correctly, and earn a polite bonus otter 🦦! The days are winding down for this month, so if you haven't collected a fancy lil otter yet, you have just a few more days to do it! Place your guesses for tomorrow's genre in spoiler tags for a chance at winning your own Lil Guy™️ 🦦!

If you know me at all, you know I love my full-grid loop puzzles. Today's genre, as a result, is one from our very own Eric Fox-- a Vagabond!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all empty cells. A number in a region indicates the number of times the loop visits that region. Orthogonally adjacent regions must not be visited the same number of times.

A rare GAPP 101 episode is also included with this genre! If you are having trouble getting started on the example, or if you're stuck on the main puzzle, I'd recommend clicking the following spoiler!

GAPP 101: Each region's number of visits multiplied by two is the number of times the loop crosses its borders-- Take a look at the example puzzle for some usage of this. A specific example in the example puzzle: the 3 region has its borders crossed six times.

Here's that example puzzle to get you started! (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2emkdt84

To earn yourself a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve today's puzzle in 3:00 or less!
To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 7:30 or less!
All other solvers are well-deserving of a Valiant Verdin 🐦!

Solve today's puzzle here! (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2e68tncz