Tuesday, 28 February 2023

bakpao

Baklog time! Unfortunately I'm a bit swamped at work right now so I can't spend too much time on this intro, which I suck at writing anyway. Enjoy the puzzle!

Today's GAPP is a genre with a delightfully simple ruleset: Linesweeper, also known as Minesweeper Loop!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some empty cells. Clues represent how many of the (up to) eight cells surrounding the clue are used by the loop.

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2k9mjhqh
Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2ksdcmel

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve in 3:00 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 solve in 6:00 or less!
And all who finish get a Loopy Logrunner 🐦!

Riri

Fun-fact about today's Mind The GAPP: It's once again on a Tuesday (thanks February!).
Not-so-fun fact about today's Mind The GAPP: It contains the most amount of "fixes" we had to do, ever.

Some of us in GAPP HQ have been having crises (crysises? crisises?) lately but I'm proud of ourselves for being able to bring you, our solvers, another month of uninterrupted daily pencil puzzles. This month was also our f̵̅͊i̶̎̃ŕ̸̏s̸͚̒t̵̬͆ ̸̓̕e̸͖͠v̷͛͝ȇ̴̓r̵̈́̎ swap week with GAS, for which we're very grateful. Thank you @clover , @Bill Murphy , and @Philip Newman (His name is spelled with only one L, y'all)

Finally, I'd like to invite you to read the intro for this month's instalment even if you don't usually care for the document. It's a matter of personal importance for me.

Oh, and this month you're being spoiled with bonuses, we have a total of 7 of them. Some are quite tough, you were warned!

Cheerios, and pebby out