Wednesday, 30 November 2022

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Hi everyone! Today's Midloop is very, very heavily inspired by a recent @djmathman puzzle (https://dj-puzzles.blogspot.com/2022/11/puzzle-148-two-halves-midloop.html). Should you choose to solve it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! It's a bit harder than GAPP, though.

If you're finding yourself stuck on the GAPP, stick around to the end for some advice!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop that moves orthogonally through the centers of some cells and passes through every circle. Each circle marks the center of the straight line segment it lies on.

As always, an example puzzle and its solution are attached to the image of today's puzzle. Solve that here, if you'd like (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/597cy8fh

To earn yourself a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve the puzzle in 6:15 or less!
All other solvers are well-deserving of a Double-Seeing See-see Partridge 🐦!

And now some advice! Frequently in Midloop, you'll find a dot that cannot be connected to in one of two directions because it would then have to extend too far in the other direction, or is not able to extend far enough! This is used a few times in this puzzle. :)

Today's GAPP (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/ymxzs92t