Monday, 5 August 2024

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Congratulations to @kino @Lorem @AkashG23 ♛ @Dexter345 @Calump @MikoKisai @Yosh @Marco @malbolgian @Malrog @Wessel Strijkstra @jettyx @Shogia on earning a bonus otter! Keep on guessing! 🦦

The other day we (the NL team) were preparing our registration for the upcoming WSPC, to be held in Beijing, China this October. This got me thinking, I can't believe it's been almost a year since Toronto already! I remember it like it was just yesterday - Taking part in two fantastic championships, meeting some of my GAPP co-authors for the first time and of course the amazing trips I went on after the event - one to the stunningly beautiful Niagara Falls and the other to the breathtaking city of Vancouver. I can't wait to find out what this year has in store for us!

Today's puzzle is a Detour!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all cells. In each clued region, the loop must make the indicated number of turns.

Here's a GAPP 101: This puzzle has quite a few large regions with 1 clues - these are very restricted! Once you have loop segments going into them, it is useful to check if making a segment turn in its current cell would force another turn to exist elsewhere in the region. If it does, you know the segment cannot turn and has to continue going straight!

Previous Detour (Jul/22 by Freddie):
Archive: Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Daydreaming D'Arnaud's Barbet 🐦!

Example (puzz.link, by jovi_al): https://tinyurl.com/2tnf2x79
Main puzzle (puzz.link): https://tinyurl.com/4yhbyk9f