Thursday, 8 February 2024

Lavaloid

Walkthrough for yesterday's Flexible Counter: https://youtu.be/VCW37jetRBQ

This puzzle is the reason bakpao had to post his baklog 1 day after it was set. Sorry bakpao.

Today's genre choice is quite apt, as Chinese New Year is in two days, and it will be the Year of the Dragon! It's also now my new favorite genre name: The Double-Headed Dragon's Eyesight Recovery, or its original name as published in Nikoli Omopa: 双頭竜の視力回復. There were two translations provided by janko.at, the other one being Binaural Vision Restoration, but dragons are way cooler so that's what you're getting (also it's the more literal translation).

Rules:
- Fill some cells with orthogonal arrows (←→↑↓) such that every arrow is orthogonally adjacent to exactly one other arrow (i.e. they form dominoes).
- Each arrow indicates the unique direction that contains the longest run of consecutive empty cells before reaching another arrow or the edge of the grid.
See the image attached below for correct/incorrect examples of clues.

Interface note: You can use Shading mode to mark cells with arrows, as seen in the example.

Finish the puzzle in 3:33 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 7:07 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Double-Headed Dragon 🐉! (that's a bird right?)

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/yomjzo6w
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/2x5q8ymz