Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Mochikoro: https://youtu.be/SoBLirtNZaQ

After my first seven GAPPs, I noted that I had covered every major type of genre, except movement/sliding puzzles, because all the available ones had already been done. Today, I can finally rectify that situation. A "new" movement genre was added to puzz.link just yesterday: Brownies. And it's maybe the quintessential movement genre, because of the relative simplicity of its rules. It's essentially Minesweeper, but the mines are already on the grid and just need to be moved into place.

Rules: Move some circles such that each clue has the indicated number of circles in the (up to) 3x3 area surrounding it. A circle may move only in one straight line vertically or horizontally, and may not pass through black cells. Circles’ paths may not cross each other, other circles, or other circles’ starting points.

Notation tip: puzz.link's movement genres provide a lot of useful auxiliary notation, make use of it! Right-click cells to shade them blue or yellow to indicate whether the final solution has a circle there or not. Click circles to shade them and indicate that they've reached their final position. Click edges to place a crossmark and indicate that a circle cannot pass through there. And click on clues to grey them out to indicate they've already been satisfied.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Brown C(r)ake 🐦!

Example (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4jcr9tyn
Puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3ncv5hmr