Friday, 3 November 2023

Menderbug

I've struggled to turn the last few additions to puzz.link into suitable puzzles for GAPP, but this week's genre seemed doable: All or Nothing by Inaba Naoki. In fact, it's been done before by Jovi: Archive: Thursday, 23 June 2022 If you're completely stumped on how to get started with today's puzzle, there's a GAPP 101 below, but I encourage you to try the puzzle without it.

A notation tip for the genre's puzz.link interface: you can click/tap a cell in a region to mark the entire region grey or yellow to indicate that it's unvisited or visited.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells. A region may be visited by the loop at most once, and if it is, all of its cells must be visited. Two orthogonally adjacent regions may not both be unused.

GAPP 101: Look for regions that cannot possibly have all cells covered in a single visit.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 4:30 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a _pahuayo Antbird 🐦!

Example by Jovi (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/yc85c337
Puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/cmxanedc