Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Lavaloid

The theme for today's Nanameguri is an ancient symbol which has transcended generational and cultural barriers. Despite this, its true meaning and origin is a mystery that has stumped many historians to this day. What is this symbol? It's the Cool S, of course!

(P.S. Go watch the LEMMiNO video on this topic if you haven't, it's very good: https://youtu.be/RQdxHi4_Pvc)

This puzzle features internal borders, which is non-standard! The ruleset is modified to accommodate this case.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells which passes through each region exactly once. Each cell containing a diagonal portion of a region boundary must be used by the loop, but the diagonal portion cannot be passed through. In other words, the loop must make a 90° turn, as though reflected off of it. Borders that separate the same region cannot be crossed by the loop.

Super pedantic note on the ruleset: The actual implementation of the border rule in puzz.link is "the loop cannot cross more than two borders that touch the same region", but this does not matter for puzzles with more than one region.

For a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve in 2:30 or less!
For a Quick Crab 🦀 solve in 5:00 or less!
And all who finish get an Ancient Albatross 🐦!

Example: https://tinyurl.com/3yecjx72
Main puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/2zpdhr75