Sunday, 1 December 2024

Walker

The Puzzle Square advent calendar (https://puzsq.logicpuzzle.app/campaign/advent-calendar/2024) is back again this year! ☃️📆 Each day, there is a featured genre (or set of related genres), and many authors post puzzles in the genre. We’re planning to cover some of the ones that haven’t been featured on GAPP yet! Today’s featured genre is Akari, and I’ll certainly need some light to get around this hexagonal Crystal Mine! 💡 ⛏️

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting path through the centers of some cells connecting the two arrows. The path must collect every crystal, but must not occupy all three cells surrounding a vertex.

Here’s a GAPP 101: The no-vertex rule is very constraining! In particular, the loop can’t make a 60 degree turn.

Try past GAPP Crystal Mine:
Shye: Discord message

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/238bcmg4

Solve in 2:30 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 4:30 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn an See-In-The-Dark Sira Tanager! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/2dg7skf9