There's now 19 of these chaotic nights mapped without direction (4, 3, 4)

Download link:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/903633324604551168/1115115871078199366/Mind_The_Gapp_Vol_19.pdf

Here's bakpao's walkthrough of yesterday's Sandwich puzzle: https://youtu.be/lD7b_Yuk7bY

Bring on the puns, because today's genre is Meandering Words, which is also known as Word Snakes. As I understand it, this genre is actually older than Meandering Numbers, but the latter seems to have gained more popularity. Which is a shame, because Meandering Words has some really interesting logic and allows for really fun puzzle themes. Today's main puzzle honours the eight host countries of this year's Puzzle Grand Prix (with apologies to Türkiye for dropping the diacritic).

Rules: Place a letter into each cell. The letters in a region must form an orthogonally connected chain of letters spelling out one of the words given outside the grid. Each given word is used exactly once. Two instances of the same letter may not appear in adjacent cells, not even diagonally. Shaded cells (if given) indicate the first letter of the word in a region.

You can solve the example puzzle here (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2nemel2z

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 7:30 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Word-Eating Warbler 🐦!

Solve today's puzzle here (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2e9n8y8j