Sunday, 15 September 2024

Menderbug

I really liked how that triangular Snake turned out a couple of months ago, so I wanted to revisit that idea. But I also wanted to make a region division puzzle on this lovely Strange-Shaped Sunday. So here's a Triangular Snake Pit.

Previous appearances of (regular) Snake Pit:
- Archive: Thursday, 1 December 2022 by Tyrgannus
- Archive: Saturday, 26 August 2023 (supersized) by Walker

Rules: Draw non-intersecting, non-branching 1 cell wide paths so that all cells are used by exactly one path. A path may not touch itself, not even at a point. Two paths of the same length may not share an edge. Numbers must lie on paths occupying the indicated number of cells. Circles must be at the end of a path, and grey cells cannot be the end of a path. Paths are at least two cells long.

Interface note: Snake Pit is normally solved as a region division puzzle (as shown in the example image). But if you prefer, the answer checker also accepts (a) drawing lines along each snake in green or (b) entering the length of each snake into each of its cells, as you might do for Fillomino.

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a Delta Amacuro Softtail 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/299oftty
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/23qpmhbc