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this is a test. this is a story.

you are not timed.



wisprabbit
@wisprabbit

Solve this puzzle online on puzz.link

Rules: Draw a single closed loop through some cells on the board. The loop doesn't branch or cross itself.

The loop passes through each bold-outlined region in the grid exactly once. Each region contains a number of sun and moon icons. When it goes through a region, the loop must either pass through every sun icon and no moon icons, or every moon icon and no sun icons. Which kind of icon the loop must pass through changes whenever it enters a new region (e.g. if the loop has passed through every sun icon in a region, in the next region it must pass through every moon icon, and vice versa).

Got absolutely twisted on probably-Covid last week and set a bunch of puzzles. I'm looking at them with a clearer head, and I'm too proud of this one to keep it to myself. I think it's a little tricky and I hope it's not broken.

The rules of Moon or Sun are a little hard to describe, but if you go to that puzz.link link and click on Help > Rules in the dropdown menu, there's an example puzzle there that makes it clearer. I like this puzzle type a lot and I'd like to set more of it.


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I wasn't sure if uniqueness was guaranteed, so I never used it to rule anything out. Unless I made a mistake with my logic and got lucky, the solution is unique. Thank you very much for sharing this! I had fun with it. I've never solved one of these before.

Nope, only found one! But same as Piper, I wasn't sure if I could use "well, the line could go here or here and it would be equivalent" as a criteria to determine that I'd done something wrong.

thanks! sorry for the confusion, I need to think harder about how to describe the puzzle. What you're describing is basically how Slitherlink works - there's a lot of different loop puzzles which all do the loop in slightly different ways!

7:04 for me, nice puzzle!

i found that once i broke in, i was able to just work continuously from both ends until they met — i was sorta waiting for the moment when I'd have to jump somewhere else and break in again to make progress. i dunno how easily that can be achieved in this puzzle type though. i did rely on uniqueness in one spot, but i think i would have made it around to there from the other end if i hadn't.

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