Monday, 4 December 2023

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Shapeless Star Battle: https://youtu.be/Sjs0MuqveTs

Aside from puzzling, I sometimes enjoy watching other people speedrun. So achieving both of the following:
- solve https://puzz.link/p?firefly/43/1/4.zo0./ in 00:00
- solve https://puzz.link/p?firefly/41/2/750zzzb0./ in 00:11
will grant you a special limited edition speedrun.com trophy 🏆

Today's puzzle is a slightly less degenerate Hotaru Beam, aka Firefly.

Rules: For each circle in the grid, draw a path starting from its black dot, moving along the gridlines, and ending at a circle (including potentially the same one it started at), but not on the side containing another black dot. Paths may not cross themselves, each other, or pass through circles. A number in a circle represents how many turns the path exiting from its dot will make. All circles must be joined by paths to form one connected network.

Here's a little GAPP 101 for this puzzle: The paths that a 2 clue can take are fairly limited; in particular, if a line leaves a circle horizontally, then it must connect to another circle horizontally, and if it leaves a circle vertically, then it must connect to another circle vertically.

Here are the previous appearances of Hotaru Beam in GAPP:
- 2023-02-08-jovi: Archive: Wednesday, 8 February 2023
- 2022-05-03-shye: Archive: Tuesday, 3 May 2022

As per tradition, here's some solving music from shye: https://open.spotify.com/track/1FXOGOCoK5SiStXdSpTlqD?si=165a1ec699af4471

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Grave Gyrfalcon 🐦

Example (Puzz.link), by shye: https://tinyurl.com/2v64m3pw
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/d7nhx3mw