#087: Grandstands

Here’s a semi-original genre. (Yes, it’s a loop genre, of course it is.) I was originally exploring this ruleset as “Canal-View-Like Loop” which is also something a few other people have looked into in the past. But (a) that’s a mouthful, (b) I thought these rules are nice enough to deserve their own name, and (c) “Grandstands” is just such a perfect fit.

And since I’m losing the connection to Canal View, I decided to use the opportunity and update the clue style to be more in line with other loop genres like Yajilin or Koburin.

Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of some empty cells. Number clues indicate the total length of straight line segments which start in a cell orthogonally adjacent to the clue and extend away from the clue.