Friday, 5 April 2024

Menderbug

Walkthrough for yesterday's Sansa Road: https://youtu.be/JonqScHgS3Y

There's a fun new Yajilin derivative on the market, by Japanese constructor Yu-ri, called LIX Loop (personally, I think it really should've been called Yajilix but what can you do). Instead of counting shaded cells, the clues tell you which type(s) of cell appears most frequently in their line of sight, which changes the dynamics of the genre quite a lot.

Rules: Shade some empty cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of all the remaining empty cells. L, I and X refer to cells containing a turn, cells containing a straight loop segment and shaded cells, respectively. Clues represent the majority of these cell types in a straight line in the indicated direction. If multiple cell types are tied for the majority, all of them are listed in the clue. (Note that clues can see through, but ignore other clues.)

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a LIX Leiothrix 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26onuncz
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26bymwvy