Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Walker

The next Puzzle Ramayan round is just around the corner! As usual, we’re making the rounds through genres featured in the competition. Here’s Round Trip! It can be a bit tricky to get your head around; I recommend looking at the example / previous GAPPs and using auxiliary X marks if you’re stuck. If you get round to competing, we have the usual prize around here somewhere. What was it again… oh yes, a bonus otter! 🦦 I was distracted, thinking about a different friend-shaped creature…

Rules: Draw a loop through the centers of some cells so that each number outside the grid represents the number of cells used by the first line segment traveling within the corresponding row or column from the direction of the clue. Two perpendicular line segments may intersect each other, but not turn at their intersection or otherwise overlap.

Here’s a GAPP 101 describing the breakin: To start, use the pairs of clues in the four outer rows/columns of the grid.

Try past GAPP Round Trip:
Eric Fox: Discord message
jovi: Archive: Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Example (puzzlink, by jovi): https://tinyurl.com/2s3h9kxh

Solve in 2:30 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 4:30 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Round Robin! 🐦

Puzzle (puzzlink): https://tinyurl.com/53mdawe6