Thursday, 5 January 2023

Freddie Hand

Once again I find myself in a festive quandary. Is Twelfth Night today or tomorrow? In any case I wasn't separated from a twin sister by a shipwreck, and I'm pretty sure Eric wasn't either. Except that's what I would say if I were pretending to be a man.

Unrelated, here is a Touch Slitherlink. And just to check, you don't see in the example solution, do you? You don't see in the example solution, do you? :concerned padmé face:

Rules: Connect some pairs of orthogonally adjacent dots to form a single non-intersecting loop. A clue represents the number of times the loop visits the group of vertices adjacent to the clue. (Note that this is not the same as the total number of vertices adjacent to the clue that are visited!)

Example, adapted from puzz.link rules page (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/yeynxrvf

There are several other appearances of slitherlink and variations in GAPP, but I won't link them here because of how differently they solve.

Hint: No 3's in the corners allowed in this variant, but what can you say about a 2 in the corner?

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Visiting Vivid Niltava 🐦

Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/mr34syyf