Tuesday, 3 December 2024

bakpao

I built up a little backlog of GAPPs to save myself some time throughout the busy month of December. Then I noticed today's genre for PuzSq's advent calendar is Masyu, and I spent my entire evening yesterday trying to write a GAPP for it. So much for saving time .

In other Japanese puzzle news, Nikoli launched a new puzzle portal with online solving! It doesn't have a lot of puzzles yet and you might need to use a translator, but feel free to check it out here: https://puzzle.nikoli.com/

Today's puzzle is a Masyu (Alternating)!

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells that passes through every circle. The loop must turn on black circles and travel straight through the cells on either side. The loop must go straight through white circles, and turn in at least one of the cells on either side. Two consecutively visited circles may not be of the same type. (In other words, black and white circles alternate along the loop.)

Previous vanilla Masyu (Jul/24, by Freddie): Archive: Tuesday, 23 July 2024

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving in 2:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving in 5:00 or less!
All solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Divine Dove 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/26dh36xv
Main (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/28qxal47