Sunday, 26 November 2023

Lavaloid

Walkthrough for yesterday's Kurodoko: https://youtu.be/RxHcMRuQDcs

For today's ✨ Strange-shaped Sunday ✨, we're featuring Bouba and Kiki Loop! The genre is named after the famous bouba/kiki experiment, where participants are shown one pointy shape and one rounded shape, and asked to name each of them Bouba or Kiki. Most people will refer to the pointy shape as "kiki" and the rounded shape as "bouba"!

Also, did you know Baba and Keke from the puzzle game Baba is You are named after this experiment? Let's ask them what they think:
(emoji) :TEXT_BABA_ANIM: (emoji) :BABA_IS_ANIM:: This result is truly remarkable. I am honored to be named after it.
(emoji) :TEXT_KEKE_ANIM: (emoji) :KEKE_IS_ANIM:: Hell darkness blizzard. Fear destruction lethal purgatory demon suffering evil chaos lava carnage.

Rules:
- Draw two loops through the centers of some cells: one Bouba loop and one Kiki loop. A Bouba loop can only turn with 120 degree angles, while a Kiki loop can only turn with 60 degree angles.
- Loops cannot cross themselves, but they can cross each other, and must travel straight at their intersections.
- The Bouba loop must visit all hexagons and none of the triangles. The Kiki loop must visit all triangles and none of the hexagons. Diamonds must be visited by at least one of the loops.

We have two GAPP 101s for today:
- The spoilered image shows all possible ways a line segment can go straight or turn.
- Look out for cells with only two exits! They can be quite subtle.

Finish the puzzle in 3:45 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 7:30 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Bokikokiko 🐦!

Example (Kudamono): https://tinyurl.com/3tfj5y2t
Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/yw7bgcvk
Puzzle (Kudamono): https://tinyurl.com/5fw9hvxw
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/ykzx2wur

Additional note because I ran out of characters in the post above: Diamond clues are not used in this puzzle.