Thursday, 17 August 2023

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Walkthrough for yesterday's Surf, as explained by Walker: https://youtu.be/gXQwBLpdGZs

Nice to see another correct guess today-- @Malrog, enjoy your otter 🦦! I, too, read the ruleset of Foreshadow and was as intrigued as you were-- you correctly foreshadowed today's genre, 🥁🥁📀! Over the few hours I spent making the GAPP, example, and a few other puzzles, I fell in love with the unique logic this genre offers. It was invented by Wen a bit over a year ago, and it's been very, very fun to play with! I'd even go as far as to say it's a banger. I hope you have as much fun with it as I've been having!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting path that moves orthogonally through the centers of all cells, starting from S (start) and ending at G (goal). A number N in a cell indicates that on the Nth step after visiting that cell, the path must travel in the direction of its corresponding arrow.

As always, an example puzzle and its solution are included with the image of today's puzzle. The example puzzle's path has the segments indicated by the clues highlighted in orange. Solve the example here, if you wish (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2aspkg7g

To earn yourself a Speedy Sloth 🦥 solve today's puzzle in 4:00 or less!
To net yourself a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 10:00 or less!
All other solvers are well-deserving of an Anticipated Predicted Antwren 🐦!

Solve today's puzzle here (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/24tep5pk

Solving tip: Directionality is very important in this genre! If a segment is pointing one direction, it cannot join a segment pointing away from it (e.g. a vertical segment pointing up cannot be connected to from the bottom right by a segment pointing right).