Saturday, 23 March 2024

Walker

Today, the GAPP team is going on a river journey down a Supersized Passage, the Kennet and Avon Canal in southern England! ⛴️ Many canals have some claim to fame, like the longest (Grand Canal in China) or the widest (Cape Cod Canal in USA). The Kennet and Avon Canal doesn’t have the most locks (I think that prize goes to the Canal du Midi in France, with between 65 and 91 depending on the source), but it does have the Caen Hill Locks, a flight of 29 locks over just a 2 mile stretch. I can see 17 of them marked on the map below!

Rules: Shade some cell to create a 'snake' - a chain of blackened squares which doesn't touch itself even diagonally. The start and end of the path are marked with circles. The path should pass straight through all cells with numbers (i.e the path cannot turn on a cell with a number). Numbers represent the length of the corresponding straight segment of the path.

Here’s a GAPP 101 that may be helpful: A clue touching another clue diagonally can only be passed through in two ways! The snake must have just one cell in the direction of the clue, and the rest pointing away from the clue. You only need to determine if the clue is passed through horizontally or vertically.

Try the first GAPP Passage, by Freddie: Archive: Friday, 6 May 2022

Example (Penpa, by Eric Fox): https://tinyurl.com/y2fzw22n

Solve in 5:00 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 10:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Canal Canastero! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/22wdxp7p