Monday, 8 April 2024
In a few days, the 21st 24 Hours Puzzle Championship (24HPC) will begin! Solvers from all over the world will be coming to Budapest to solve puzzles for 24 hours straight. This is a paid in-person event, so we won't be giving out any otters for it. Regardless, you can find the instruction booklets here.
Today's Remaze is one of the genres featured in 24HPC, specifically in the Puzzlers Club Zodiac Round. Not to be confused with Build a Maze, another maze-drawing genre which was previously feat-- LOUD SIREN NOISE
⚠️ NEGATIVE CONSTRAINT ALERT ⚠️ NEGATIVE CONSTRAINT ALERT ⚠️
Rules:
- Draw some borders to form a maze. The maze has two exits as indicated. The maze cannot contain any cycles, and all cells should be reachable. The maze doesn't have any 4-way intersection.
- Each O indicates a 3-way intersection, and all intersections are marked. Each X indicates a dead end, and all dead ends are marked.
- From each intersection, exactly one branch leads to a dead end; the other two branches lead to other intersections or an exit. Put another way, the unique path through the maze passes through all intersections.
Interface note: The answer checker accepts drawing either the borders (using Composite > Edge/Aux Line) or the paths of the maze (using Line mode).
Finish the puzzle in 2:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 4:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an OX-pecker 🐦!
Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26k6cm8u
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/292dfdtn
