Sunday, 20 August 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Parrot Loop: https://youtu.be/94S9Wey2GVw

Otters for @NotJeff, @fiboway, @Jonathan Chaffer, @calica, @MikoKisai, @PulverizingPancake (and evil kino I guess ) today, who successfully parroted yesterday's genre. 🦦 🦦 🦦 🦦 🦦 🦦 (🦦)

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 Strange-Shaped Sunday 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.

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 direction perpendicular to the line segment contain a straight line parallel to the one in the numbered cell.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Repeated Rockwarbler 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22l225ce
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2xlf67jm