Endless River (Nurikaboros = Nurikabe + Loop)
(Published on 18. December 2023, 02:06 by KevinTheMH)
Rules:
1. Shade some cells in the grid. The shaded cells are considered stream cells and the rest are island cells.
2. Stream cells are orthogonally connected and form a non-intersecting loop. No 2x2 region can fully be stream cells.
3. Each island is jointly formed by a group of orthogonally connected island cells and contains exactly one cell with a number + arrow clue. (i.e. the cells containing numbers and arrows are island cells)
4. The number simultaneously indicates the size of the island that the cell belongs to, as well as the total number of island cells in all the directions indicated, which does not include the numbered cell itself.
*5. This is a discarded draft of a puzzle from a puzzle hunt, which means that solvers need to extract an answer (an English word) from it).
Enjoy!
Penpa (thanks to WYXkk for this link)Solution code: The answer to this puzzle (5 letters, all capitalized)
Comments
on 29. January 2024, 14:20 by CHalb
Fascinating puzzle, especially or although since I forgot about the loop even till I had a "valid" solution fulfilling all hint numbers.
on 9. January 2024, 19:10 by RubberMittens
Nice Puzzle
on 18. December 2023, 18:28 by KevinTheMH
Some corrections and clarifications (the typo in the penpa link will be up soon)
on 18. December 2023, 16:29 by jessica6
I totally forgot about the loop until I have solved the puzzle half way. Using the loop makes this puzzle much easier.
on 18. December 2023, 09:04 by rockratzero
Solved this puzzle. Enjoyed it. Quite fun and nice. The end game was cool once I finally figured it out.
on 18. December 2023, 05:52 by KevinTheMH
Clarification
on 18. December 2023, 02:09 by KevinTheMH
clarifications on the 4th rule
on 18. December 2023, 02:07 by KevinTheMH
Edited the tag, added the penpa link
