Saturday, 30 March 2024

Freddie Hand

I'm posting today's supersized Nuri-maze on behalf of Lavaloid. A reminder that Puzzle GP Round 3 and Puzzle Ramayan Round 3 are still in progress and there is an otter available for each. 🦦 🦦

You might be aware that April 1 is just around the corner. I'm here to tell you that there will be no 9x9 sudoku (no, there won't be 16x16 sudoku either), but there may be logic or software gimmicks that you wouldn't find on any other days. All of the puzzles will be reasonably solvable. You have been cautioned!

Rules:
- Shade some cells so that each region is either fully shaded or fully unshaded and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area with no loops. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded or unshaded. Clues must be unshaded.
- All circles must lie on the shortest path from the S (start) to the G (goal) (i.e. the only possible path which does not visit any square twice), while triangles must not. (This means that triangles must lie somewhere along a dead end.)

Here are previous appearances of Nuri-maze in GAPP.
2023-12-16-lava: Archive: Saturday, 16 December 2023 (Supersized)
2023-04-17-fred: Archive: Wednesday, 14 September 2022
2022-09-14-eric: Archive: Wednesday, 14 September 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:45 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Pizza Piapiac 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) by Eric Fox: https://tinyurl.com/ycx22h3y
Puzzle (Puzz.link, Landscape): https://tinyurl.com/5332xw9y
Puzzle (Puzz.link, Portrait): https://tinyurl.com/2m4bzn3j