Saturday, 26 August 2023

Walker

Here's a walkthrough for Freddie's Oasis: https://youtu.be/0LSSRC8hEpo

Check out today’s correct guessers! 🦦 While no one guessed Snake Pit specifically, we’re awarding honorable Ottosnakes to @hunchcat and @Dexter345 for guessing Snake and Snake Egg respectively. 🐍 Congrats!

Today’s Snake Pit is brought to you by the number of the day, 127! Did you know that 127 is the smallest positive number of centimeters equal to a whole number of inches, at 50 inches? 📏 Or that 2^127 - 1 is the largest prime number discovered by hand, found by mathematician Édouard Lucas in 1876? 🔢 Or that the world’s longest snake, the Ottosnake, can grow to be up to 127 cells long? 🐍 Actually, one of these facts might be made up…

Rules: Draw non-intersecting, non-branching 1 cell wide paths so that all cells are used by exactly one path. A path may not touch itself, not even diagonally (unless the path just moved out of that cell). Two paths of the same length may not share an edge. Numbers must lie on paths occupying the indicated number of cells. Circles must be at the end of a path, and grey cells cannot be the end of a path. Paths may not be only one cell long.

Notation Tip: If you click on a number and drag, the number will be copied into adjacent cells! No need to keep typing 127 😄

For a hint, check out this GAPP 101: Only one length-127 snake can fit in the grid; once you find the two ends, all of the other 127 clues have to be along the snake path between these ends.

Check out the first GAPP Snake Pit, by Tyrgannus: Archive: Thursday, 1 December 2022

Example [by Tyrgannus] (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/kac4ttwn

Solve in 5:55 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 12:07 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Winding Wren! 🐦

Puzzle (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/mszerxv9