Saturday, 25 May 2024

Lavaloid

Puzzle GP round 5 is here, this time set by USA setters (and tested by Walker)! Check out the contest here: https://gp.worldpuzzle.org/content/puzzle-gp. As always, we have an Otter Offer 🦦 for anyone who participates in the contest. Unfortunately, none of the genres have been featured on GAPP yet, so we can't do a ✨ Supersized Saturday ✨ version of any of them. Instead, today's puzzle is a Mukkonn Enn!

Previous instances of Mukkonn Enn:
- Hexagonal variant by bakpao: Archive: Sunday, 21 April 2024
- in Christmas pack by Xoned: Archive: Monday, 25 December 2023
- by Menderbug: Archive: Friday, 13 October 2023
- by Jovi: Archive: Monday, 9 January 2023

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of all cells. When the loop exits a clued cell from a side with a number, it must travel in a straight line for exactly the indicated number of cells (turning on the Nth cell, where N is the value of the clue). A number does not necessarily mean that the clue must be exited from its side.

Finish the puzzle in 4:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 9:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an Loopinn' linn(et) 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by Menderbug: https://tinyurl.com/mmmwdhyy
Puzzle (puzz.link, landscape): https://tinyurl.com/nhkhc5t7
Puzzle (puzz.link, portrait): https://tinyurl.com/cdu5hh92