Wednesday, 21 February 2024

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Snake: https://youtu.be/dbpt8t3aZ-8

The next puzzle competition is just around the corner: the second round of the LMI Puzzle Ramayan, authored by Ashish Kumar, begins in a little over 24 hours! The instructions booklet has been released at https://logicmastersindia.com/live/?contest=PR202402, with the genres appearing being Geradeweg, Round Trip, Turning Fences, Doppelblock, TomTom, Patchwork (Not the same one as in bakpao's GAPP - it's a number placement genre) , Tripleblock, and Geradeweg (Full) which is today's puzzle. As usual solvers who participate in the contest are eligible for a bonus otter 🦦.

In completely unrelated news, did you know that Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic? That is, for any positive integer n, there exists a pattern that repeats itself after exactly n generations. The proof was actually only completed last year, with the discovery of 19- and 41-periodic patterns ending the search. It's pretty cool how much depth there is to a silly little deterministic algorithm. But no matter what new patterns are discovered the 2x2 square will always be my favourite. And it doubles as a masyu puzzle!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all cells. Every straight line segment that touches a clue must have a length equal to the clue’s value.

Here are the previous appearances of Geradeweg in GAPP:

2022-06-25-fred: Archive: Saturday, 25 June 2022 (Supersized)
2022-06-06-eric: Archive: Monday, 6 June 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 4:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Ermine Eiao Monarch 🐦

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/25fzgrjc
Puzzle (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/23leg9ls