Saturday, 24 May 2025

Freddie Hand

Here's a Supersized Portal Loop which has leapt through time and space to reach your screen today. It's gotten a shiny new pzprxs implementation (not-too-)recently, though has mostly flown under the radar - I wonder how many of you even remember the existence of this genre.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of all cells. When the loop enters a portal with a number, it must teleport to the corresponding portal and continue in the same direction. For clarity, portals must be used exactly once, i.e. you cannot pass through a portal multiple times.

Interface note: Now that this genre has been ported to pzprxs, you can make use of the 'colour each line' tool.

The previous appearances of this genre in GAPP can be found below:
2024-02-11-fred-strange: Archive: Sunday, 11 February 2024
2023-10-12-shye: Archive: Thursday, 12 October 2023
2022-06-13-nellie: Archive: Monday, 13 June 2022

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Warping Warsangli Linnet 🐦

Example (pzprxs), by shye: https://tinyurl.com/5hye3zec
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/5ph3cu7j