Thursday, 2 July 2026

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Hey everyone! Today's GAPP is a Time Travel, a fairly recent genre created by me. I hope you enjoy it!

It's a bit tricky to wrap one's head around at first, but Vertigo has similar logic. Here are links to GAPP's past Vertigo puzzles:
14 May 2024, by Walker: Archive: Tuesday, 14 May 2024
15 Apr 2026, by Rook: Archive: Wednesday, 15 April 2026

Rules: Draw a loop by connecting the centers of edge-adjacent cells such that all non-shaded cells and no shaded cells are visited by the loop, and determine the loop's direction. The loop may intersect itself, but it must not turn at its intersection. The loop must not intersect itself on arrow clues, but it must intersect itself on cross clues. The loop must turn on circular arrows, which indicate that the loop must only turn in that direction (clockwise or counterclockwise) until encountering the other type of circular arrow. The loop must not turn on straight arrows, which indicate the direction the loop travels through that cell. Two circular arrows of the same orientation must not be visited consecutively.

To earn a Speedy Sloth 🦥, solve today's puzzle in 6:00 or less!
To net a Quick Crab 🦀, solve today's puzzle in 13:30 or less!
All other solvers are welcome to their very own Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey Owl 🦉!

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/2a3fylxp
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/24lwp7oq

Interface Note: Answer check will only accept green lines! I typically solve using multiple colors, and if you do that too, you'll have to trace over everything at the end with all green.

Solving Note: It may help some of you to think of the loop as turning left and right rather than counterclockwise and clockwise respectively. Try thinking in that way if you're struggling to get your head around it!