Wednesday, 4 December 2024

Menderbug

Today's Puzzle Square Advent Calendar genre is Nuri-Maze (which happens to be another classic I had never constructed before). If you enjoy today's puzzle, you can find many more of these on PuzSq.

The most recent Nuri-Maze was by Lavaloid and contains links to further appearances on GAPP: Archive: Saturday, 30 March 2024

Rules:
- Shade some cells so that each region is either fully shaded or fully unshaded and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area with no loops. No 2x2 area may be entirely shaded or unshaded. Clues must be unshaded.
- All circles must lie on the shortest path from the S (start) to the G (goal) (i.e. the only possible path which does not visit any square twice), while triangles must not. (This means that triangles must lie somewhere along a dead end.)

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:45 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 3:30 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of an Advent Adjutant 🐦!

Example (pzprxs) by Eric: https://tinyurl.com/ycxxtntd
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/mumw76k5