Congratulations @Shogia for earning today's bonus otter 🦦! Today's puzzle is a Crystal Mine, and now that I've posted it, it's crystal yours as well.

Previous Crystal Mine (Hexagon) by Walker: Archive: Sunday, 1 December 2024
Previous standard Crystal Mine by shye: Archive: Monday, 27 December 2021

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting path through the centers of some cells connecting the two arrows. The path must collect every crystal, but must not occupy all four cells in any 2x2 area of the grid.

Finish the puzzle in 1:45 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥!
Finish the puzzle in 3:30 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀!
Finish with any time at all for a Crystal Crissal Thrasher 🐦!

Example (Penpa+) by shye: https://tinyurl.com/2dx2a2pj
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2czazq9a

Mind the GAPP vol. 45

We have NINE (!!!) bonus puzzles this time! An important note regarding the bonus puzzles: the genre names will spoil the rules, so if you haven't solved the instructionless set yet, you should do so before solving the bonus puzzles.

Also, we'd like to remind everyone that all past volumes of Mind the GAPP are available in the pins section as well as at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X9XrQwP70GXH4bPN5ejmmBlXmRpjNKKG?usp=sharing