Saturday, 5 October 2024

Menderbug

We continue our coverage of WPC genres. I was looking through the earliest-featured (GAPP) genres which have not yet appeared on a Saturday, and which will be part of WPC this year. I skipped the first few options as they either had a slightly different ruleset, would be a pain to make supersized, or are just not in my wheelhouse, and so I ended up with Double Back, which first appeared as GAPP #28.

Standard Double Back has only been featured twice before, though we've had a few variants and related genres:
- Archive: Tuesday, 23 November 2021 by Jovi
- Archive: Thursday, 17 November 2022 by Freddie

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting, non-branching loop through the centres of all cells which passes through each region exactly twice.

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 Crimson-backed Flameback 🐦!

Example (pzprxs) by Jovi: https://tinyurl.com/yduwz3uh
Puzzle, Landscape (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/bdezvtaf
Puzzle, Portrait (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/34rvr28y