Tuesday, 23 June 2026

Freddie Hand

Hello! Today's Elastic Link is one of Hempuli's inventions (also known as the creator of Baba is You). It's neat, and has some pretty challenging theory. Which you shouldn't need for today's puzzle, though feel free to brag if you do use anything like that.

I'm happy that there is some support for Mathsy Mondays. I might finally muster up the courage to relaunch one of my other series ideas. For now, all I'll say is, 2 weeks from now will be a big day.

Rules:
- Draw lines such that each circle connects to one other circle.
- Lines cannot cross or overlap each other.
- Each line must turn at least once.
- For every turn, the lengths of the line segments on both sides of the turn must differ by exactly one.
- A number indicates the length of the line segment overlapping that cell. All cells with numbers (or "?" clues) must be visited.
- If the line turns on a number, the number indicates the length of either the horizontal or vertical line segment overlapping the cell.

Clarification: if a circle contains a number, that means the segment coming out of the circle must have length equal to that number.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 3:00 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 6:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Keke Kea 🐦

Example (pzprxs, from pzprxs rules page): https://tinyurl.com/4pb6wepc
Puzzle (pzprxs): https://tinyurl.com/529wc264