Thursday, 19 October 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Heyablock: https://youtu.be/LO5Bd1qr7nA

Much like "Disorderly Loop game (4)" as a cryptic clue, the order of the numbers in this puzzle are ambiguous. But nevertheless they can be unscrambled to lead you to the One Solution, just as easily as finding the unique answer to "animal found amongst the noncombatants (3)".

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells. Clued cells may not be used by the loop. Clues represent the lengths of the next N line segments appearing in the loop, not necessarily in order, starting with a line in the cell adjacent to the clue in the direction of its arrow and moving in the direction of the arrow, where N is the amount of numbers in the clue.

The previous appearances of this genre in GAPP can be found here, in a very orderly fashion:
- Archive: Monday, 13 March 2023 (jovi)
- Archive: Saturday, 29 October 2022 (jovi, supersized)
- Archive: Thursday, 20 October 2022 (shye)
- Archive: Tuesday, 25 January 2022 (Eric)

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Discombobulated Drakensberg Prinia 🐦

Example (Puzz.link), by Eric Fox: https://tinyurl.com/37xc939z
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/bdeyt48n