Saturday, 2 November 2024

Lavaloid

Today's ✨ Strange-Shaped Supersized Saturday ✨ is a Slitherlink (Irregular)! It started as my attempt at punchingcatto's speed setting competition on Oct 31. The challenge was to set a rangoli themed puzzle in 1 hour, but I ended up not finishing it in time. Happy Diwali!

Previous Slitherlink (Irregular): Archive: Sunday, 31 December 2023

Rules: Draw a loop over dotted lines which does not branch or intersect itself. Number clues show how many cell edges are used by the loop.

Interface note:
- Use Edge > Free to draw your answer. For answer checking to work, line segments must be drawn between the given points, without stopping between the points. If there are three gridpoints passed in a straight line, then the line must first be drawn between Point 1 and 2, then between Point 2 and 3.
- To help with scanning, you can use Edge > Free > R (Red) or Edge > Free > Fat dots to mark edges that cannot be used.

Finish the puzzle in 10:00 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 20:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Symmetric Somali Sparrow 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): http://tinyurl.com/yrp6ko38
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/22h3wpfm