Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Lavaloid

In case any of you aren't aware, this year's Secret Santa participants have received their gifts, and some have showcased the gift they received in #🎅secret-santa-showcase🎅 ! If you have the time, do check them out.

As for today's edition of ✨ Tuesday ✨, we're featuring Fountain Walk, a.k.a. Hasu-no-Mura-Like Loop! Just like Hasu-no-Mura, the clues can be kind of confusing, so in addition to the ruleset I've added examples of how the clues work. Be sure to check them out before trying the puzzle! You can also check the Hasu-no-Mura GAPP for more examples: Archive: Wednesday, 13 September 2023

Rules:
- Draw lines through orthogonally adjacent cells to form a loop. The loop cannot branch off or cross itself.
- Each orthogonally connected area of cells not visited by the loop is called a unvisited region.
- Clues cannot be crossed by the loop and indicate the sum of the areas of the unvisited regions using the (up to 4) cells diagonally adjacent to the clue. If a region uses multiple of these cells, it is only counted once.
- A question mark (?) clue is to be replaced with an integer.

Finish the puzzle in 4:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 10:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Diagonal-Village-Weaver-Like Loop (?) 🐦 ➿!

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/yvv3py6w
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/yogmgaoh