Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Freddie Hand

Here's a Wataridori to celebrate its implementation on pzprxs. I set this having completely forgotten that bakpao already featured one a while back.

The name of this genre means 'migratory bird' in Japanese, and depicts the flight of birds across region borders to reach their nests, like how my memory of this genre migrated to some unknown location. I'm hoping that Wataridori will be pretty new to most of you, or this will be a humbling experience indeed...

Rules: Draw non-intersecting paths through the centers of some cells with circles at both ends of each path (and none in between). Numbers, if given, indicate how many regions the corresponding path travels through. Each path may visit each region at most once.

Wataridori has appeared once before in GAPP, courtesy of bakpao: Discord message

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 1:40 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 3:20 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Migrating Mindanao Heleia 🐦

Example (pzprxs), by bakpao: https://tinyurl.com/zn2dkb9v
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/y88cx4se