Cave of Loops
(Published on 7. December 2022, 11:52 by Myxo)
A classic Cave puzzle with a twist. The difficulty may vary depending on experience with Cave puzzles, and intuition how to deal with the holes. Enjoy!
Rules:
Normal Cave Rules apply. Shade some cells of the grid, such that all shaded cells are orthogonally connected to the edge of the grid, and all unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected region.
Clues are unshaded, and indicate how many unshaded cells are visible horizontally and vertically. The clue sees itself, and shaded cells block its sight.
Note: In this puzzle, the thick-outlined holes are part of the edge of the grid!
Solution code: The number of contiguous segments of shaded cells in each column, from left to right
Comments
on 15. February 2024, 18:22 by Snookerfan
Fantastic puzzle! Thank you
on 14. October 2023, 15:48 by Piatato
Wonderful puzzle, super smooth throughout! I think 5 stars is a huge exaggeration, but 99% is too low :)
on 20. April 2023, 17:48 by abed hawila
Superb!
on 15. April 2023, 22:25 by wooferzfg
Awesome puzzle, thanks! The connectivity deductions were beautiful, and this had everything I love about Cave puzzles despite feeling very different (since you can have checkerboards)
on 15. January 2023, 16:24 by filuta
fun and creative exercise in connectedness!
on 15. December 2022, 14:42 by Christounet
Brilliant !
The cave logic is so shaken up by the magic of thise "inside" borders/holes !
Almost felt like some big fillomino logic regarding the "how the hell will i connect this to that" questions.
Very aesthetic too.
Bravo and thanks !
on 9. December 2022, 00:04 by kjholt
What a tough but rewarding solve! I love these pencil puzzle variants even if they take me hours.
on 8. December 2022, 01:09 by Jesper
Great puzzle, thanks!
on 8. December 2022, 01:00 by Agent
Absolutely amazing puzzle! Very hard but very rewarding solve. I had to abandon everything I think I knew about caves in this one.
on 7. December 2022, 23:50 by Dandelo
@jessica6: Ja.
on 7. December 2022, 23:44 by jessica6
Blockiert der Rand (die inneren Quadrate) auch die Sicht?
on 7. December 2022, 16:42 by KNT
Very fun unusual cave! I agree with Dandelo, Klein bottle cave next? :)
on 7. December 2022, 13:58 by MagnusJosefsson
Great puzzle, very nice idea and execution!
on 7. December 2022, 13:30 by Dandelo
Very nice.
And now on a Klein bottle with holes. :)
on 7. December 2022, 12:31 by Mark Sweep
Nice and smooth!
