Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's Chocona: https://youtu.be/x1tX9XF9Q58

Figuring out what percentage cocoa I enjoy my chocolate has been a lifelong conquest for me. Anything above 80% is medicinal. Anything below 50% makes me feel like a 12-year-old eating it. But in between? Well that depends on whether it's Wednesday or if it's raining in Palau. Oh, and white chocolate? Don't be silly.

Here's a (chocolate-wise) rather unappetising Dotchi Loop. This time with dots in groups of 3 !

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells that passes through every white circle and no black circles. Within a region, the loop must either turn on every white circle or pass straight through every white circle.

Here is a GAPP 101 for this puzzle: In some situations, the black circles and the loop create "dead ends" - regions that the loop cannot visit (e.g. in the example, the bottom right and, less obviously, the bottom left). It may be helpful to mark these by x-ing them off.

Here are previous appearances of this genre in GAPP:
2023-03-30-lava: Archive: Thursday, 30 March 2023 variant (Dotchi Dotchi Loop)
2022-11-09-shye: Archive: Wednesday, 9 November 2022
2021-12-12-shye: Archive: Sunday, 12 December 2021

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:15 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Monochrome Chocó Vireo 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by shye: https://tinyurl.com/yx3ubawc
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/mr2p4anm