Monday, 8 January 2024

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Aquapelago (Deltoidal Trihexagonal): https://youtu.be/y-m-T6uuOeQ

They say that eating carrots gives you night vision. What they don't tell you is that you'll turn orange first. Source: some Tom Scott video from around 14 years ago, probably.

Solving thousands of Myopia at a time will make you smarter, with absolutely no side effects.

Rules: Connect some pairs of orthogonally adjacent dots to form a single non-intersecting loop. Clued cells contain arrows indicating all of the orthogonal directions in which a loop segment appears closest to the clued cell.

Note: This last rule does mean that if in two or more directions there's a tie for the closest line segment, all of those directions are shown. Directions without arrows must have the nearest segment be further than directions with arrows.

Here's a couple of little GAPP 101's:
- 4-directional clues are quite restricted: in particular, there cannot be any line segments adjacent to the clue, since this would form a 1x1 loop.
- 3-directional clues are also fairly restricted: if there is line segment adjacent to the clue, the line segments around the clue form a "U-shape", which can sometimes be problematic.

This genre has occurred a couple of times already in GAPP:
2023-09-03-mbug: Archive: Sunday, 3 September 2023 (Hexagonal)
2022-02-18-eric: Archive: Friday, 18 February 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Narcotic Nyanza Swift 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by Eric Fox: http://tinyurl.com/2p8ybmba
Puzzle (Puzz.link): http://tinyurl.com/ma3jtmb5