Saturday, 6 April 2024

Freddie Hand

Walkthrough for yesterday's LIX Loop: https://youtu.be/XUNsDR6KF3Y

BREAKING ANIMAL NEWS! In the Thai city of Lopburi, 2500 monkeys are to be rounded up and placed in large enclosures after causing a little too much mischief. I was lucky enough to avoid the same fate after Monday's shenanigans.

Our animals are friendly and won't try to steal your food. Even today's bird - responsible for many an ice cream heist - has been trained and fed on a diet of chocolate and bananas. So solve this supersized Touch Slitherlink at your leisure.

Rules: Connect some pairs of orthogonally adjacent dots to form a single non-intersecting loop. A clue represents the number of times the loop visits the group of vertices adjacent to the clue. (Note that this is not the same as the total number of vertices adjacent to the clue that are visited!)

A little GAPP 101 which is generally useful for this variant: 2's in the corner and 3's in the edge can both be completely resolved.

Here is the previous appearance of Touch Slitherlink in GAPP.
2023-01-05-fred: Archive: Thursday, 5 January 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 10:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Slithery Seagull 🐦

Example (Puzz.link) adapted from puzz.link rules page: https://tinyurl.com/yeynxrvf
Puzzle (Puzz.link, Landscape): https://tinyurl.com/47ktruap
Puzzle (Puzz.link, Portrait): https://tinyurl.com/ydecjmvt