#056: Ivy

Another original genre! I have a backlog of genre ideas involving branching lines that I want to explore at some point, but this new idea came up and I was sufficiently excited about it to let it skip the queue. Here’s an introductory puzzle to get you started.

This idea was based on a prompt by Corey Hardt, where I treated the star as a question mark.

Rules: Draw a connected network of branching lines through the centres of some cells without forming any 4-way intersections or closed loops. Every endpoint is marked with a number, and every number marks an endpoint, indicating the total line length from the endpoint to the nearest branch point.