Friday, 20 December 2024

Freddie Hand

Around this time of year, we tend to hear a lot of chatter about snow and the cold. This Fire Walk is for our Australian friends tired of the same old schtick. I carefully engineered the puzzle to not work with ice or water!

Rules: Draw a loop that passes through every numbered cell. The loop cannot branch or cross itself. Orange cells represent fire, while regular cells represent ground. The loop must turn on every orange cell it visits. The loop is allowed to visit an orange cell twice if the centre of the cell is inside the loop. A number indicates how many cells make up the continuous grounded section of the loop that the number is on.

🚨 Note/Warning 🚨 : When you draw two perpendicular segments into a fire cell, they will automatically connect to form a turn. You can (and sometimes should!) rectify this by clicking on the cell centre. Clicking on the cell centre will also change the orientation of any turns in that cell.

For an illustration: look at the top right 3 in the example puzzle. If you draw the segments you deduce from this clue, you'll get a tiny premature loop, at which point you will notice R2C4 has to be a double turn. This pitfall is less obvious in some other scenarios, so be careful!

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 2:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:15 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with an Infernal Inti Tanager 🐦

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/2f9fchun
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/2ycw3z4h