Monday, 6 November 2023

Lavaloid

One day, I was driving down the Hawaii interstate, when I found a small letter near a cliff face. It was made out of stainless steel that had an odd design. I was shocked to see it spelled out a distress signal! Suddenly, I heard someone shout at me from a distance. Apparently what I did was trespass someone's backyard, so I was ushered off from there.

What does this have to do with today's GAPP post? I will leave it as an exercise for the reader. Here's a Crossstitch, the genre I was referring to in my last post.

Rules:
- Place diagonal lines into some cells, each connecting two opposite corners, such that they form two loops in the grid - one on each type of vertex - which may not intersect themselves, but may intersect each other.
- Black cells may not be used by the loops. Cells containing intersections of the two loops may not be orthogonally adjacent.
- Circled numbers represent how many corners of its cell are used by the loops. Numbers with arrows represent how many cells contain intersections of the loops in the indicated direction up to the edge of the grid or the next black cell.

Interface notes: You can click in the middle of cells to add a circle, meaning the two loops cannot intersect in that cell.

GAPP 101: Look out for line ends that can only extend to one vertex! They can be quite tricky to spot in this genre, as you'll need to check for dead ends, satisfied circle clues, intersections, and early loop closures.

Finish the puzzle in 4:30 or less for a Express Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 10:00 or less for a Quicc Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Bee-eater 🐦!

Example (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/bdhhksv4
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/572k78wa