Monday, 9 October 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Leaf Vein: https://youtu.be/HT9J1riALdY

Today's Onsen-Meguri comes with a warning of potential snow monkeys. Make sure you keep any chocolate and especially bananas well hidden if you don't want to go without a snack. Although there wouldn't be many places to hide it...

Rules: For each circle in the grid, draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells which passes through that circle. Loops may not overlap themselves or each other. A loop may visit any region at most once, and every region must be visited by at least one loop. Each loop must occupy an equal number of cells in each region that it visits. A number in a circle indicates how many cells that is per region for its loop.

Notes
- The rule in bold is not demonstrated in the example, so pay special attention to this.
- Every loop must pass through exactly one circle. (This is implied by the rules but explicitly stated here for clarity)

Here is a GAPP 101: Remember that every region is visited by some loop - for small regions there might only be one loop that is able to visit it.

The previous appearance of this genre in GAPP, also by me, can be found here: Archive: Thursday, 30 June 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Bathing Barbados Bullfinch 🐦

Example (Puzz.link), adapted from the puzz.link rules page: https://tinyurl.com/5vksz9r3
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/5cyn6bvb