Ice Cave
(Published on 21. November 2023, 09:00 by Agent)
For this week I decided to share one of my hybrid puzzle experiments which combines some of my favourite types of logic. Essentially it's a fusion of Cave and Icelom. I hope you'll enjoy!
Rules
- Shade some cells so that all shaded cells are connected orthogonally by other shaded cells to the edge of the grid, and the remaining unshaded cells form one orthogonally connected area.
- If a clue is unshaded, it represents the total number of unshaded cells that can be seen in a straight line vertically or horizontally, including itself.
- Draw a path through the centers of some cells, entering and exiting the grid at the marked arrows. The path must visit all shaded cells, may not turn on unshaded cells, and may cross itself only on unshaded cells.
- The path must visit the numbers 1 to 11 once each in ascending order.
Puzzle links
Solution code: The number of turns of the path in each row, from top to bottom. Then the length of the longest contiguous stretch of shaded cells in each row, from top to bottom.
Comments
on 25. July 2024, 14:36 by ibag
Very cool!!! ;-)
on 1. April 2024, 16:34 by MagnusJosefsson
Excellent! Very natural combination and very well set path!
on 4. December 2023, 19:10 by Martijn314
Absolutely stunning puzzle! Really nice and logically solvable all the way through!
on 26. November 2023, 20:10 by Piatato
Very intense! Icelom is perhaps the genre that hurts my brain the most at the moment.
on 26. November 2023, 16:28 by ONeill
Very cool :)
on 24. November 2023, 22:35 by Jesper
Awesome, thanks!
on 23. November 2023, 19:35 by KNT
awesome puzzle!!
on 22. November 2023, 10:52 by Christounet
Enjoyed this a lot ! Requires a bit of thinking about the ruleset before getting started, then it's a super nice experiment of all sorts or connectivity logic. Thanks :)
on 21. November 2023, 23:49 by wisty
That was awesome! Pretty tricky, but fair and very very interesting.
Love to see icelom on here! It's a really cool genre.
on 21. November 2023, 23:49 by Myxo
Very nice puzzle! Found that quite challenging.
on 21. November 2023, 13:42 by h5663454
Quite interesting, thx.
on 21. November 2023, 12:58 by Agent
Update German description.
on 21. November 2023, 10:27 by CHalb
That looks good! I suggest to improve the German version: Instead of "darf nicht schattierte Zellen nicht einschalten" you better write "darf auf nicht schattierten Zellen nicht abbiegen".
