Saturday, 5 July 2025

Lavaloid

Today's ✨ Supersized Saturday ✨ is Xerophile, a rare genre that starts with X.

Previous Xerophile by Freddie: Archive: Wednesday, 24 August 2022

Rules: Shade some cells to form a non-intersecting loop (i.e a 'snake' whose head and tail are the same) which does not touch itself orthogonally (but may touch itself diagonally). Every cell which is orthogonally adjacent to exactly one shaded cell is marked with a circle, i.e if a cell is not marked with a circle, it is not orthogonally adjacent to exactly one shaded cell.

Important hint: Note that every cell in the loop is adjacent to exactly two shaded cells. As a consequence, circles cannot be shaded.

Finish the puzzle in 4:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 9:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for an X-ray of a Xenops 🐦!

Example (Penpa+) by Eric: https://tinyurl.com/2ogv726o
Puzzle (Penpa+, landscape): https://tinyurl.com/yw2f844f
Puzzle (Penpa+, portrait): https://tinyurl.com/2bme9dvb