Thank you dumediat and filuta for testing this one! And thank you again everyone who has helped me develop this series, especially those who provided feedback in the early stages and those who made sure the wording is adequate.
• Shade some white cells such that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent, and draw a loop that travels orthogonally through all unshaded white cells without intersecting itself or crossing bold borders.
• Clues marked with arrows give the sum of all shaded cells in the given direction, or directions combined, where a cell's value is 1 if it is inside the loop and -1 if it is outside the loop.
• Gears visited by the loop must alternate inside and outside (or vice versa). A gear is considered visited when the loop travels directly from a cell not touching that gear to a cell touching that gear.
Clockwork Yajilin series:
• Orientation
• Parallel Motion ◄
• Parity Point
• Challenger
• Blackout Cipher
Solution code: the column number of each shaded cell (left to right) in rows 3, 4, and 9
on 10. April 2024, 01:18 by Piatato
Beautiful and elegant! :)
on 19. March 2024, 22:26 by wisty
added links to full series
on 24. February 2024, 17:43 by Agent
Cool puzzle, good to see more directed loop variants!
on 22. February 2024, 21:49 by Jesper
Really enjoyed the logic in this one, thanks!
on 21. February 2024, 17:01 by Christounet
Cleverly organized grid. Showcases an interesting property of the ruleset. Thanks !
on 21. February 2024, 08:15 by filuta
Well thought-out puzzle. Great fun.
on 21. February 2024, 03:53 by dumediat
I am really enjoying this series of puzzles! :D