Saturday, 30 December 2023

Walker

Here’s a walkthrough for Freddie’s Building Walk: https://youtu.be/m5S3WXCeK50

Today’s GAPP is a Supersized Kaisu, and the last supersized GAPP of the year! Before you count down to New Years, make sure to count up the number of visits to each region!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting path through the centers of all cells, starting from the S (start) and finishing at the G (goal). The path’s Nth visit to a region must pass through exactly 0 or N circles (an S would be the first visit).

This puzzle uses a particular deduction several times. If you’re having trouble starting, check out this GAPP 101: If a region contains exactly two circles, they both need to be passed through in a single visit, the 2nd visit. (If they were passed through on different visits, both of those visits would need to be the 1st visit.)

Check out the first GAPP Kaisu here: Archive: Thursday, 21 September 2023

Example (puzzlink): http://tinyurl.com/4yvrrtmv

Solve in 5:00 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 10:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Counting Downy Woodpecker! 🐦

Puzzle (puzzlink, landscape): http://tinyurl.com/3dzzy5yz
Puzzle (puzzlink, portrait): http://tinyurl.com/ymk8n2vv