Monday, 2 June 2025

jovi_al

Today's puzzle is a Fake Arrow, a genre I quite enjoy despite its name sounding quite a bit too generic. I promise today's puzzle isn't a Yajisan-Kazusan. Unrelatedly, I just want to shoutout X-Sheep and Pedro again for working so hard on their own puzzle solving softwares that they provide for free and implementing genre after genre so frequently. It's amazing and spectacular work they do out of a love for the community, and I would feel off if I didn't occasionally mention that.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting directed loop that moves orthogonally through the centers of some cells. The grid is divided into regions containing arrows. An arrow indicates that the loop passes straight through it in that direction. Exactly one arrow in each region must not be satisfied according to the previous rule, and these arrows must not be orthogonally adjacent.

We've covered this genre once before:
04/09/24 by bakpao: Archive: Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Example (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/4nrv459a

To earn a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve today's puzzle in 3:30 or less!
To earn a Quick Crab 🦀 solve today's puzzle in 7:55 or less!
All other solvers earn a True False Vampire Bat 🦇 (I know it's not a bird, but I've been thinking about making this joke since I came back to the GAPP team).

Tip: Shaded arrows are more powerful than their equivalent shaded clues in Yaji-Kazu, as instead of becoming meaningless, they become negative. You may be able to use this to your advantage!

Main puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/mfmrkkha