Sunday, 16 March 2025

Walker

There have been strong winds recently! 🍃 I was stockpiling some squares, but the winds have bent them all out of shape 😓 The winds are more moderate today, so I’m out walking at Slant park. If I tie a string to one of these bent squares, I can fly it as a kite! 🪁

Rules: Place a diagonal line into each cell, connecting two corners that are not adjacent. (For each cell, two such lines are possible.) No loops are formed by the lines. A clue in a circle indicates how many lines are extending from that circle.



Interface Note: For answer check, each cell's line must be drawn individually - don't group two adjacent lines into a single connection. (Also, it's easy to accidentally connect a line to the wrong place; if answer check isn't activating, look for misdrawn lines.)

Here’s a GAPP 101, copied from my previous Slant: Equivalently, the no-loop rule means that each group of connected lines must touch the edge of the grid (if not, it would be surrounded by a loop!) Look for places where a group needs to travel to reach the edge, or a single interior vertex can’t be surrounded by lines.

Try past Classic Slant:
Tyrgannus: Discord message
Shye: Discord message
Bill Murphy: Archive: Friday, 3 February 2023
Menderbug: Archive: Saturday, 1 June 2024

Example (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/29ramytq

Solve in 3:00 or under for a Speedy Sloth! 🦥
Complete in 6:00 or under for a Quick Crab! 🦀
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will earn a Wrybill in the Wind! 🐦

Puzzle (Penpa): https://tinyurl.com/23k2blu5