Sunday, 16 July 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Supersized Country Road: https://youtu.be/Fjc610TUnwQ

Today's puzzle is a Japanese Railway! Unfortunately the GAPP team are unable to supply certificates for solves of 5 minutes or more, but our recent purchase of Laysan and Christmas Island ensures that we'll have plenty of reimbursements.

Rules: Shade some cells, then draw a loop through the centers of all unshaded cells which crosses over itself only at the given perpendicular intersections. The loop must pass straight through each cell with a number inside the grid, and the numbers must be visited in ascending order. Numbers outside the grid indicate the lengths of blocks of consecutive shaded cells in the corresponding row or column, in order.

This is a variant of Railroad Tracks, a genre covered in GAPP here: Archive: Sunday, 26 February 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Shinkansen Laysan Albatross 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ggjd226
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/24v7ms4a