Monday, 13 May 2024

Freddie Hand

I used to play the maracas in a band. I have no idea why I got kicked. I always kept my rattlesnake in a cage, and I even brought a professional snake exterminator to hang from the ceiling. He had a specially designed Snakescope for his gun.

I would be playing in an orchestra right now if I hadn't loaded the cannon for Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture or brought an entire zoo to Saint-Saëns' carnival of the animals. I just wanted to honour the composer's intentions...

Rules: Shade some cells to form a non-intersecting path which does not touch itself, not even diagonally. A clue represents how many of the (up to) four cells it touches are shaded.

This genre hasn't appeared on GAPP before, but here's the last classic Snake puzzle to remind you of what a can't-touch-itself-diagonally-snake looks like:
2024-02-20-mbug: Archive: Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Anaconda Anambra Waxbill 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26tesdcz
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2xusqemw