Friday, 10 May 2024

Lavaloid

Remember that puzzle I said I had prepared before replacing it with a different genre? That was so long ago, but I can finally post it since we have no running contests to distract us. Today's GAPP is 拡張四方リンク (read: Kakuchou Yonpou Link), which I chose to translate as Extended Four-way Link.

Rules: Draw an orthogonal non-crossing loop through the center of some cells and fill the remaining cells with exactly one of the digits 0-4. Some digits are already given. Numbers count how many of the cells orthogonally adjacent to it are visited by the loop. Orthogonally adjacent cells cannot contain the same number.

Interface note: The answer checker only checks the loop, so you don't need to fill in every number. However, it's still helpful for keeping track of the numbers.

Finish the puzzle in 2:45 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 6:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Distracted Dunlin 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2ckrfkkm
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2bvfv7tc