Broken Sign Blog
#073: Country Road (Dance)
8 January 2023More fun with dancing loops to start the year! The solve path after the break-in is a little wider than usual, but there’s a lot of fun deductions in any case.
As with the Rail Pool (Dance), I’ve found that one of the Country Road rules seems to dominate the logic in this variant (or maybe just in this particular puzzle I made). I suppose that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I’ll keep experimenting with other base genres soon.
Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of some cells which passes through each region exactly once. A number in a region represents how many cells in the region are visited by the loop. Orthogonally adjacent cells across a region border may not both be unused.
Variant: Dance — Draw two loops instead of one. The loops cross each other at right angles exactly once in each region. The loops cannot cross themselves. Number clues indicate the total number of visited cells in the region, counting the crossing only once.