Saturday, 16 December 2023

Lavaloid

Walkthrough for Walker's Ice Walk, explained by Walker: https://youtu.be/8EAIsbkdoN8

Today's ✨ Supersized Saturday ✨ is a Nuri-Maze, whose previous instances in GAPP I couldn't find because I was searching for a "nurimaze" instead of a "nuri-maze". Those plus-shaped regions look kind of familiar, though I can't quite put my finger on why...

Rules:
- Shade some cells so that each region is either fully shaded or fully unshaded and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area with no loops. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded or unshaded. Clues must be unshaded.
- All circles must lie on the shortest path from the S (start) to the G (goal) (i.e. the only possible path which does not visit any square twice), while triangles must not. (This means that triangles must lie somewhere along a dead end.)

Previous Nuri-Mazes:
- by Freddie: Archive: Monday, 17 April 2023
- by Eric: Archive: Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Finish the puzzle in 3:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 6:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Familiar Chat 🐦!

Example (Puzz.link) by Eric Fox: https://tinyurl.com/ycx22h3y
Puzzle (Puzz.link, Horizontal): https://tinyurl.com/23j4x2x3
Puzzle (Puzz.link, Vertical): https://tinyurl.com/bdew68zx