Friday, 7 June 2024

Freddie Hand

It has been ages since our last classic Herugolf puzzle. Don't worry, there's no toroidal nonsense going on today (as fun as that would be). But it's been pretty warm recently, so all the water hazards have dried up, and the balls can't take more than 3 hints before disintegrating.

Rules: Move the circles vertically or horizontally at least once each so that each circle ends up stopping on an H (hole). A ball can go in an H with potential moves still available as long as it lands at the end of a full move. A circle’s first move must be in a straight line of the number of cells indicated by the number inside it, and each successive move must be one cell shorter than the previous. Circles’ paths may not cross themselves, each other, other circles, or other circles’ starting points. They also may not pass over an H without stopping on it, and may not ever stop on a cell with water but can pass over it.

Here are the previous appearance of Herugolf in GAPP:
2023-05-06-tyrg: Archive: Saturday, 6 May 2023 (Supersized)
2021-11-29-tyrg: Archive: Monday, 29 November 2021

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 2:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Tiger Woodstar 🐦

Example (Puzz.link), by Tyrg: https://tinyurl.com/29523wzt
Puzzle (Puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/ye2xwj7n