Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Freddie Hand

If you're a big fan of today's genre, you might react "oo" to this Midloop (Full). As you also might if you solve too many cryptic crosswords. I've been trying to beat Simon on the Times Quick Cryptic recently, and I can tell you that he's pretty quick. The closest I've gotten is a 2:16 to his 2:12. I was so confident I'd won...

Recently, pzprxs gained the "full" (visits all cells) variant support for quite a few loop genres. So here we are. Drawing those first 8 segments really gives you a bit of a kick.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells that passes through every circle. Each circle marks the center of the straight line segment it lies on.
Variant: The loop must pass through all cells.

Here are the previous appearances of Midloop in GAPP:
Archive: Wednesday, 8 June 2022 (Full) by jovi
Archive: Tuesday, 4 April 2023 by Tyrg
Archive: Wednesday, 30 November 2022 by jovi
Archive: Thursday, 15 September 2022 by shye
Archive: Tuesday, 15 March 2022 by jovi

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:45 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:15 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Complete Compact Weaver 🐦

Example (pzprxs) by jovi: https://tinyurl.com/bdf9vsdw
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/5bbh9axe