Saturday, 15 June 2024

bakpao

Last time I made a silly joke about running out of time for that particular GAPP and presenting a seemingly incomplete puzzle - that came back to haunt me! I started writing my supersized for today well in time yesterday, but after many hours of trying failed to write something I was happy with. I tried 4 different genres before eventually landing on Hotaru Beam. Well after midnight I had only a half-finished puzzle and became so tired I decided to call it a night, to resume this morning. After a few more hours, I finally finished writing the puzzle only one hour ago. I'm never joking about this again... 😵‍💫

Today's puzzle is a SUPERSIZED Hotaru Beam!

Rules: For each circle in the grid, draw a path starting from its black dot, moving along the gridlines, and ending at a circle (including potentially the same one it started at), but not on the side containing another black dot. Paths may not cross themselves, each other, or pass through circles. A number in a circle represents how many turns the path exiting from its dot will make. All circles must be joined by paths to form one connected network.

Most recent appearance of Hotaru Beam:
Dec/23 by Freddie: Archive: Monday, 4 December 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 8:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Karmic Kākāpō 🐦!

Example (puzz.link, by shye): https://tinyurl.com/2v64m3pw
Main puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/3bkfejrh