#slitherlink

[su-doku]

Very important question!!

What’s your favorite Japanese number puzzle?

sudoku

kakuro

hashi

hitori

nurikabe

futoshiki

kenken

shikaku

heyawake

slitherlink

fillomino

other/multiple/nuance/bald/vanilla extract, whatever

Remaining time: 5 days 17 hours

“What am I looking at here?”

[oneefin]

the mitmh24 post-solving team i'm on decided unanimously to skip the late-game puzzle jigsaw slitherlink. we looked at the solution page and, yeah no regrets whatsoever. this is the new most insane puzzle i've ever seen

(spoilers below)

i will spend zero time explaining the solution to this, but the tl;dr is that you have to assemble a jigsaw with fractal regions, solve a cursed slitherlink through it, and then figure out what the loop's area is.

yeah, ok,

right, of course,

uh-huh, as you do,

exactly as god intended,

so obviously solving this puzzle would have been completely unrealistic for us but it's super cool. one of those ideas you will remember forever.

the last thing i'll highlight is that in the footnotes they have this very clever little slitherlink construction that i'll show without the solution scrawled into it:

check the bottom of the solution page for the solve of that

[sixteen-bit]

Swan Song: 091 • Slitherlink

[littlepuzzler]

Solve this puzzle at Krazydad

Penrose Slitherlink

In a Slitherlink Puzzle, you connect the dots to form a meandering path that forms a single loop, without crossing itself, or branching. The numbers indicate how many lines surround each cell. Empty cells may be surrounded by any number of line segments.

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

[errorfunction]

PZV link

another slitherlink puzzle. hard to tell from my test solves but I think it might be harder than intended, so uh good luck

Puzzle rules:

Connect some dots either horizontally or vertically to form a single loop that doesn’t touch itself. A number indicates how many of the four possible edges around it are used in the loop.

The link above has more details.

[oneefin]

on the topic of slitherlink, if you've ever played slitherlink before, this puzzle is worth a try

(can't take credit for this, i sourced it from elyot grant. this link goes to a solution + explanation from him. also the entire series of videos this is from is worth watching)

[littlepuzzler]

Solve this puzzle at Krazydad

Penrose Slitherlink

In a Slitherlink Puzzle, you connect the dots to form a meandering path that forms a single loop, without crossing itself, or branching. The numbers indicate how many lines surround each cell. Empty cells may be surrounded by any number of line segments.

There's a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it's not a fence.

[littlepuzzler]

Solve this puzzle at Krazydad

Easy 10x10 Slitherlink

In a Slitherlink Puzzle, you connect horizontally or vertically adjacent dots to form a meandering path that forms a single loop, without crossing itself, or branching. The numbers indicate how many lines surround each cell. Empty cells may be surrounded by any number of lines (from 0 to 3).

This Wikipedia Article has some useful tips.

It is what we are that gets across, not what we try to teach.