Saturday, 12 August 2023

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Walkthrough for yesterday's World Tour, as explained by Walker: https://youtu.be/6tQfbtsfRYU

"Out with the old, in with the new"... is what I'd say if I wasn't setting for Supersized Saturday. Here at GAPP we have a simple rule that we follow-- all Supersized puzzles must be repeat genres. You'd think that would be pretty easy, but sometimes I want to make supersized puzzles of genres we haven't done before. Anyways, today's puzzle is a Supersized Russian Loop. Y'know, because I'm crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room--

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all cells. A dot is given between every pair of horizontally adjacent cells where the loop turns in both or travels straight in both.

This puzzle genre does have a negative constraint, but it only applies horizontally. I know, it's weird.
Solve the first (and only) instance of this genre in GAPP here, by Eric, if you wish: Archive: Friday, 25 March 2022

Also, solve the example here, if you wish (courtesy of Eric) (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/y86gupk5

To earn yourself a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve today's puzzle in 10:00 or less!
To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 25:00 or less!
All other solvers are well-deserving of a Ruffian Rufous Owl 🦉!

Solve today's puzzle here (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2a7ugf9j

Tip: Once you know whether one cell in a row is a turn or a straight, you know the entire row! This is because of the negative constraint. Changing the composite mode to lineox might be helpful-- I personally use O for turns and X for straights! If there's not a dot, they alternate, and if there is, they're the same!