Nuri-Maze
(Published on 12. January 2024, 16:17 by Myxo)
I noticed that there are no Nuri-Mazes in the portal yet, so here is an approachable one! In my opinion, this is a really fun genre to solve, and the ruleset is intuitive despite its length. Enjoy!
Rules:
Shade some regions on the board to form a maze. A region is either completely shaded or unshaded. Regions containing a clue cannot be shaded. There can not be a 2x2 square of all shaded or all unshaded cells. For each pair of unshaded cells, there is exactly one path of edge-adjacent unshaded cells connecting them, i.e. all unshaded cells form an orthogonally contiguous area without any loops.
There is exactly one path between S and G that doesn't require backtracking. Circles must be part of this path, while triangles must not.
Solution code: for the last 5 columns from left to right, the number of contiguous segments of unshaded cells
Comments
on 24. February 2024, 16:13 by Chilly
Great fun - now I tried this, maybe I'm ready for the build-your-own version :)
on 20. January 2024, 23:06 by Christounet
Fun genre ! Thanks for introducing :)
on 17. January 2024, 16:26 by dumediat
Excellent introduction to the genre, thank you! :D
on 13. January 2024, 16:13 by yttrio
This introduced me to nuri-maze as well, and was a great introduction in terms of figuring out the basic types of logic involved!
on 13. January 2024, 01:13 by Piatato
Very pleasant!
on 12. January 2024, 23:17 by The Book Wyrm
Never tried nuri-maze before, but this was a really fun puzzle!
Fairly approachable as well, considering I've never solved one of these before.
on 12. January 2024, 22:51 by ONeill
Fun, thanks!
on 12. January 2024, 22:10 by szabog
Thank you for introducing a new type of puzzle :)
on 12. January 2024, 18:35 by Myxo
simplified solution code
on 12. January 2024, 18:07 by goodcity
First nuri-maze ! Nice progressive difficulty and smooth solve path :)
on 12. January 2024, 17:10 by chameleon
Good introduction to the genre!
I saw nurimaze for the first time in my life, but still managed to understand the basic principles and go though.
on 12. January 2024, 16:47 by zzw
Very nice and fun, thanks!
