Friday, 19 May 2023

Riri

Ssssssurprise! It'sss been a while sssssince y'all heard from me. How'ssss my ssssweet sssolverssss? I hope you are on sssolid ground and not doing anything ssssssilly like being on a plane, because there are mosssst definitely ssssnakess on it.

Jusssst like today'ss puzzle, Lithersssslink!

Today's Litherslink is a first appearance on the channel, which I was shocked to discover while looking into what to do. It's a genre by @TwoHoleStraw, who we pinged by name for the second time this week! He first guessed Menderbug, and his genre is now being showcased on the First-ever Finnicky Friday (not an actual series).

Rules: Draw lines along the edges of some cells to form trees.
1. There must be more than one tree.
2. A tree must branch or terminate at every grid vertex. In other words, each grid vertex must have 1, 3, or 4 connected edges.
3. Trees must not contain loops.
4. A number indicates the number of edges of that cell that are included in a tree.

The rules can be a bit weird for those who are used to solving Slitherlink and its loopy variants, so I encourage everyone to spend a bit of time scrutinising the example puzzle (Puzz.link rules page) here: https://tinyurl.com/bd2u8ppc

GAPP 101: Madeyalook (at the picture for some diagrams where the rules are broken). The vertex (black dot) rule is essential to cracking this genre!)

Those of you who want a bigger challenge after solving today's GAPP can find a really neat puzzle by @Michael that was showcased in Snakes on a Plane guest series: Discord message

Lither the slinks in 2:30 or less for a Ssspeedy Sssloth 🦥
Sink the llithers in 5:15 or faster for a Quick Crab 🦀
Any other thimble lissers get their very own Lister Thistle 🐦

GAPP litherssssssslink (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3hsvyn5e