Broken Sign Blog
#107: Coral-Like Loop
13 June 2023Here’s one more bonus puzzle from the Polish Puzzle Championship round.
After I had submitted a bunch of puzzles, the organisers asked me to make a harder puzzle to keep the top players busy for a bit. It seems I overshot the goal because this puzzle ended up getting axed from the round for being too hard.
I think it’s a really nice puzzle though, so here you go.
Rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centres of some cells. There cannot be any unvisited cells inside the loop. If there are number clues in front of a row or on top of a column, there will be exactly one line segment along that row or column for each clue with a matching length. The numbers are not necessarily given in order. A 0-clue indicates that there are no line segments along that row or column. Clues ignore line segments perpendicular to the row or column they describe.