Saturday, 15 November 2025

Freddie Hand

Will It Square? Will It Unsquare? Here's a supersized Nagenawa that is both square and unsquare.

By the way, I never understood why Nagenawa is less popular than Ring-Ring. After all, every Ring-Ring puzzle is also a Nagenawa puzzle, but not vice versa. Perhaps we can make L-Route more popular than Sashigane?

Rules: Draw rectangular loops through the centers of some empty cells. The sides of different rectangles may intersect each other, but not turn at their intersection or otherwise overlap. A number in a region represents how many cells in the region are visited by the loops.

Do check out the first Nagenawa in GAPP, by jovi, if you would like a warmup: Archive: Friday, 25 February 2022

Here's a little GAPP 101 too: When you can only visit one more cell in a region, you can place an x marking between every adjacent pair of empty cells.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:15 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 8:45 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Lattice Lattice-Tailed Trogon 🐦

Example (puzzlink) by jovi: https://tinyurl.com/2k4xdvje
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/rd44fmnb