Sunday, 23 February 2025

Freddie Hand

I am returning once again to the comfort of Maxi Loop, this time on a Cairo Pentagonal grid. This geometry is pretty amenable to full loops since it's basically a square grid with some diagonals added in. Thinking of it in this way probably won't help you solve today's puzzle, though.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all cells. A number in a region represents the number of cells occupied by the largest continuous loop segment within the region. (Note this does not have to be the strictly largest loop section - there can be multiple sections of this length)

Here's the last not-by-me standard-shaped Maxi Loop in GAPP in case you want a refresher, courtesy of jovi: Archive: Thursday, 16 March 2023

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 5:30 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Hieroglyphic Highland Tinamou 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/23qqhw9b
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/25k9wpyx