So I suck at puns. Two easy Ice Barns follow.
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Showing posts with label Ice Barn. Show all posts
Perplexible followup
David Millar is kind enough to feature one of my puzzles on his puzzle blog. No, not this one, the other one. It's an old puzzle, and I haven't made any Ice Barns (rules) in quite a while, so I decided to make another one for the sake of new visitors who like the one up on Perplexible. You can find a few more (and, frankly, better) puzzles of this type elsewhere.
This one is both easier and more typical of how solves of the type feel than the Perplexible one. Clicking on the picture opens the puzzle up in the wonderful pzv.jp environment.
This one is both easier and more typical of how solves of the type feel than the Perplexible one. Clicking on the picture opens the puzzle up in the wonderful pzv.jp environment.
Welcome to the Ice Barn
Ice Barn is a rather rare Nikoli type. Rules go something like:
Draw a directed path from IN to OUT, visiting all the ice barns (grey areas) along the way. You move from cell centre to adjacent cell centre in an orthogonal fashion. You may not backtrack, overlap or branch. You may not turn inside a barn. Crossing your path is only allowed inside barns. In some puzzles, parts of the path will be given; an arrowhead on them indicates direction of movement along them.
I've got some nerve publishing this: I wrote this a couple of hours after learning this puzzle type existed. The solution is more symmetric than the grid, so I think that's obvious.
I have to say I love the Japanese naming connotations. Ice, because of the sliding inside presumably. And barn, because, um... , that's where you usually revisit your past actions? Or keep your ice, for that matter.
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