Hybrid Star Battle Series (016) - Slitherlink
(Published on 23. April 2023, 23:00 by BenceJoful)
Intro
For this Hybrid Star Battle Series I will be sharing a new puzzle each week combining Star Battle with another puzzle genre. This week's genre is Slitherlink. The inspiration for this combination came from an all-slitherlink series led by TwoHoleStraw at the CTC Community, called "Snakes on a Plane". I made a 1-star puzzle for that series, and highly recommend checking out that series puzzles if you're interested in Slitherlink, or fun variant puzzles in general.
Rules
Standard Slitherlink and Star Battle rules apply.
- Slitherlink: Connect some pairs of orthogonally adjacent dots to form a single non-intersecting loop. Clues represent the number of edges drawn surrounding the clue (up to four).
- Star Battle: Place stars into some cells such that each row, column, and region contains exactly 2 stars. Stars may not touch one another, not even diagonally.
Links
8x8 2-star Example (Penpa+ link):
Solution code: Along row 8, then column 8: if the cell has a star, give *. Otherwise, give O if the cell is outside the loop and I if the cell is inside. In the above example, the solution code is O*I*IOOO IIOI*I*O.
Comments
on 28. April 2023, 15:17 by OldCaptainWZJ
The point where I needed to start considering restrictions from both rule sets completely blew me away, and everything that follows was just beautiful. Great puzzle!
on 27. April 2023, 20:31 by CHalb
:-) for the design and another
:-) for the (at least my) solving path!
on 25. April 2023, 07:00 by Phistomefel
There were some interesting Slitherlink tricks in there and I really enjoyed it.
on 24. April 2023, 19:42 by BenceJoful
@Dandelo Great to know - I enjoyed that a lot :)
https://tinyurl.com/27w8vd8f if anyone else wants to try
on 24. April 2023, 18:51 by Dandelo
Very nice. As always.
If someone is interested: In https://logic-masters.de/LM/2011/dokumente/LM2011-Endrunde-Runde6.pdf you find another one of this type.
