Saturday, 31 August 2024

Menderbug

Congrats to @Cow, @Stef, @AkashG23 ♛, @Vornicus, @MikoKisai, @ericthered13, @Malrog, @Jonathan Chaffer, @Shogia, @malbolgian for earning the final bonus otters this August. As many of you figured out eventually, each post contained the next day's genre somewhere, usually split across multiple words. Initially, we only hid them in the intros, but eventually we put them just about anywhere in the message. Before we embarked on this, we brainstormed a lot of phrases we could use to hide genres in. Here are some gems that we didn't end up using:

- Christmas/Yuletide
- I will have no yak odor in this house!
- black ink on kangaroo hide
- Nairobi? Nairobi!
- "let's get ur nan drunk"

Anyway. I'm not convinced that all roads lead to Roma but this one certainly did.

Rules: Place an arrow into each empty cell of the grid, each pointing in one of the four cardinal directions. No two arrows within the same region may point in the same direction. After all arrows have been placed, starting from any cell and stepping one cell in the direction of the arrow must always eventually lead to a cell with a black circle.

Interface note: If you switch the input mode to "Check route" you can click/tap on a cell and see (a) where this cell leads and (b) all cells leading to this cell.

A small GAPP 101: The arrows can never form a loop, since none of the arrows in the loop would reach the circle.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 5:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 10:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Roman Hawk-Owl 🐦!

Example (puzz.link) by Shye: https://tinyurl.com/3bzh38x6
Puzzle (puzz.link, Portrait): https://tinyurl.com/yzj2yrvp
Puzzle (puzz.link, Landscape): https://tinyurl.com/43kead9j