Monday, 17 April 2023

Freddie Hand

Today's puzzle is a Nuri-maze! This gives me an a-maze-ing opportunity to a-maze you with a-maze-ing puns. Wait, I used the same pun three times... (dis-maze)

Rules: Shade some cells so that each region is either fully shaded or fully unshaded and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area with no loops. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded or unshaded. Clues must be unshaded. All circles must lie on the shortest path from the S (start) to the G (goal) (i.e. the only possible path which does not visit any square twice), while triangles must not. (This means that triangles must lie somewhere along a dead end.)

Feel free to check out the previous occurrence of this genre in GAPP, by Eric Fox: Archive: Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:15 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Serpentine Stejneger's Scoter 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by Eric Fox: https://tinyurl.com/ycx22h3y
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/bdha9pfs