Saturday, 19 August 2023

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Warp: https://youtu.be/pLkGd7UuhsE
Lots of very reasonable guesses today, but sadly no otters.

From the reaction counts on the main posts (or maybe your own times) you've probably noticed that the last few GAPPs have been a little spicier than usual. We're aware and we'll try to dial it back a bit again. Various ongoing... shenanigans... have pushed us to pick some wilder genres lately. But today is Supersized Saturday which means we're revisiting a genre you've seen before. In particular, I've got a Parrot Loop on a peculiar grid for you. It might give you a new perspective to view the genre from.

Parrot Loop was previous covered by Eric: Archive: Sunday, 8 January 2023

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of some cells. The loop may not go through black cells, and must pass straight through cells with numbers. A number indicates how many other cells in the same row (in the case of a vertical line) or column (in the case of a horizontal line) contain a straight line parallel to the one in the numbered cell.

Note that the clues do not count themselves. So e.g. if the line passes horizontally through a 4-clue, that column will contain 5 horizontal loop segments.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 7:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Parallel Parrot 🐦!

Example by Eric (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2gp3rbdn
Puzzle, Landscape (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2bz22p4s
Puzzle, Portrait (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26k425ot