Der Zoo von Noach
(Published on 9. October 2011, 20:39 by pokerke)
Each of the cages shown on the map (2 to 8 squares in size) is completely surrounded by a path accessible to the visitors (represented by thick grey lines).
Can you find the current position of all the animals in their cages so that the following conditions hold?
- Every cage contains exactly one female animal and one male animal. The 10 gray marked cages (4 pentominos and 6 half letters of the word ZOO) further also contain exactly one newborn animal.
- Some of the cages contain water for the animals (~); no animals are in the cells containing water.
- No two male or two female animals are directly, orthogonally next to each other.
- With the current position of the animals, the perfect visitor path around the zoo exist: a loop that passes exactly on 1 side of each female animal, 2 sides of each male animal and on 3 sides of each baby animal.
As an example, here is the current position of the animals in the separate Noah's Petting Zoo:
Solution code: The size of the areas outside the loop, clockwise starting in the top left.
Comments
on 22. July 2020, 19:33 by szabog
Thanks for the tale and the puzzle. It was very enjoyable to solve.
on 14. April 2014, 14:23 by tuace
What a beautiful puzzle!!!
on 27. August 2012, 16:51 by fratercula
Wonderful!
on 6. April 2012, 10:48 by Eisbär
Nr. 799... and a very beautiful puzzle Kim, thank you!
on 25. November 2011, 05:34 by Rollo
Toll! Ein würdiger 1000er :-).
on 16. November 2011, 09:48 by CHalb
A puzzle with good ideas and well done! It took me some time while solving till I recognized that the aspect of reducing the path from the complete grid to only the edges of the areas is new and really interesting.
on 16. October 2011, 15:46 by flaemmchen
Seeehhr schön :-)))
on 9. October 2011, 21:47 by logik66
My favourite puzzle.
Very nice variant of slitherlink.
I would love to see more.
Niels
on 9. October 2011, 21:30 by Micha
Nice puzzle. I'm lovin it! Unconventional and still nicely solvable.
on 9. October 2011, 21:04 by ibag
Thank you for this very nice puzzle!
on 9. October 2011, 20:35 by pokerke
My contribution from the contest, I might as well add it here too.
Many thanks to the jury for the organisation of the contest!
