Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Aquapelago: https://youtu.be/VHtpaUMVzMc

Today's genre began life as Canal-View-Like Loop, an idea that was independently entertained by a few people in this server (and maybe elsewhere). Earlier this year, I made two of these myself and decided to give the genre a catchier name and bring its presentation more in line with other loop genres with unvisited number clues (such as Yajilin or Koburin), resulting in Grandstands.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of some empty cells. Number clues indicate the total length of straight line segments which start in a cell orthogonally adjacent to the clue and extend away from the clue.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Standing Grandala 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/ysfzmgr3
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/ys9a4vhu