Friday, 26 January 2024

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Canal View: https://youtu.be/z2MUzQ3J5u8

A few weeks ago, Swaroop added a long-awaited new composite mode for directed loops and paths to Penpa+. So we're a little overdue with a puzzle to celebrate that. Today's puzzle is an Oriental House. Some notes for how to use the new Penpa mode:

- On PC, you can right-click edges to cycle through cross marks and little arrows indication a direction. You can also right-click and drag from one cell to another to draw or remove an arrow in a specific direction.
- On mobile, you can just tap edges to cycle through cross marks and arrows. There's no way to draw a specific arrow directly here.

All that said, I've tried to keep the puzzle gentle enough that you should be able to get by without any arrow marks, if you prefer.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting path through the centres of all cells, starting from the S (start) and finishing at the G (goal). Whenever the path passes through an arrow, the current visit to that region must have either entered in that direction or it must exit in that direction (or both).

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Oriental Darter 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/ywoktvlk (I've marked the relevant entry and exit directions in the solution image.)
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/yvsapyoq