Thursday, 18 January 2024

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Territory: https://youtu.be/X5wnlPkmdoY

We're currently just over halfway through January, which can only mean one thing - it's the start of the 📝 ✏️ competitive puzzle solving season! 📝 ✏️ The Logic Masters India Puzzle Ramayan has just started, of which one of the puzzles is Liar Loop. So here's one to practise on.

A bit more information: the contest has 22 puzzles written by Prasanna Seshadri, which you can solve in any 1-hour period between today and about a week from now. To solve the puzzles, you can either print them out or use the online integrated Penpa+ interface (with no answer check since this is a contest). This is the first round and consists of mainly fairly common genres, and there is also a bonus otter 🦦 on offer for anyone who participates!

For more details, see Discord message or go to https://logicmastersindia.com/live/?contest=PR202401 to download the instructions booklet or get started.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all cells. A clue in a region means that no visit the loop makes to the region may occupy exactly the indicated number of cells.

Here's the previous occurrence of this genre in GAPP:
2023-10-24-shye: Archive: Tuesday, 24 October 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 7:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Deceitful Dark Pewee 🐦

Example (Penpa+) by shye: http://tinyurl.com/yvkb5sb7
or with big numbers: https://tinyurl.com/yn6b9lsp
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/yv4oer2b
or with big numbers: http://tinyurl.com/ykbqhem3