Saturday, 26 September 2026

Freddie Hand

The instructions booklet for the 2026 World Puzzle Championship released today! You can find it at https://wspc2026.logicmastersindia.com/?g=WPC. Urumi Spirals will be appearing in round 6, which consists entirely of "innovations". This genre is themed around the Urumi, an Indian sword whose blade curls in one direction.

Rules:
- Draw an orthogonal path moving out from each circle that never turns left.
- For each path, going from the clue, straight segments can only reduce in length or stay the same (i.e. a segment can never be longer than the previous segment).
- A number in a circle gives the total length of the path coming out of it (i.e. the number of cells the path visits, excluding the cell with the clue).
- Every cell must be visited by exactly one path.

Acquire a Speedy Sloth 🦥 by solving the puzzle in 4:30 or less!
Obtain a Quick Crab 🦀 by solving the puzzle in 8:00 or less!
And all solvers who complete the puzzle will be rewarded with a Practising Parakeet 🐦

Example (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/y6edmx38
Puzzle (Penpa+): https://tinyurl.com/3namajpj