Sunday, 19 November 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Supersized Aqre: https://youtu.be/KfsCCz0rmY8

Waking up on a Sunday morning, even 2 hours of lying down sometimes fails to produce any sort of puzzling (or getting-out-of-bed) motivation. So I turn my trusty assistant chat-GPT 3.5 to produce something. This is what I receive...

     A B C D E
   / 1 2 3 4 5 \
 / F G H I J K \
|  L M N O P Q R |
 \ S T U V W X /
   \ Y Z 1 2 /
     \ 3 4 /

Rules:
1. Each letter (A to X) and number (1 to 4) must appear exactly once in the grid.
...

Perfect. That's exactly the push I needed.

Today's puzzle is a Slitherlink (Big Cells)!

Rules: Connect some pairs of orthogonally adjacent dots to form a single non-intersecting loop. Clues represent the number of edges drawn surrounding the clue. Some cells in the grid are larger than regular cells (and can have more than 4 edges).

Solving Note: In the selected mode, you can right click to mark edges with "x" markings. You may find it helpful to use these liberally.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 8:15 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Quadrupled Quail-Plover 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yvt72zqg
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yssv6msz