Tuesday, 24 December 2024

Menderbug

Depending on which part of the world you live in and how you celebrate, Christmas is imminent or has already begun! Which means it's time for Santa to figure out how best to deliver all the presents. It's a tricky logistical problem, but you can help him out by solving today's Transporter puzzle!

Rules: Plan Santa's delivery route. Santa's route starts and ends at the North Pole, marked "START", and moves from cell centre to cell centre. He doesn't have time to retrace his steps, so he will never visit any cell a second time. Santa must pick up all the presents (marked by boxes) and deliver them to their respective homes (marked by circles). The number on a present indicates its weight and the letter indicates which home it has to be delivered to. Since Santa can visit each home only once, he has to pick up all of the relevant presents beforehand (though he may already be carrying other presents if he has room to spare on his sleigh). Santa can never carry more total weight than indicated by the capacity above the grid. (You can find the usual, non-thematic rules in the Penpa links.)

Score a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Collect a Quick Crab 🦀 by completing the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
Finish the puzzle in your own time to become the proud owner of a North Polar Skua 🐦!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2bwwmaje
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2daybqjs