Belagerungsturm
(Published on 22. September 2024, 14:12 by Myxo)
Finally I made a non-Sudoku again, and it's a large one! It starts relatively simple but gets very tricky later on. Enjoy!
Rules:
Shade some empty cells and then draw a single closed loop (without intersections or crossings) through all remaining empty cells. Shaded cells cannot share an edge with each other. Gray cells cannot be part of the loop. Clues in such cells are either Yajilin clues, Castle Wall clues, or both.
Yajilin: Clues indicate the number of shaded cells in the direction of the arrow.
Castle Wall: Clues indicate the amount of times the loop crosses a cell border in the direction of the arrow.
Solution code: row 6 from left to right, ignoring grey cells. S for shaded cells, L for turns, I for straight segments.
Comments
on 15. February 2025, 18:46 by askaksaksask
Oh my what a brilliant puzzle! This has been on my to-do list for quite some time, and after a few after-work hours of tinkering, I was finally able to crack the bottom half (and that stack of 1s) wide open. What a genius puzzle. This does start off pretty accessible but the deviousness sets in pretty quick... some really well executed ideas here, a great loop puzzle, and some well earned chuckles as i finally rounded out the solve. This is a 100% in my book. Thank you!!
on 18. January 2025, 01:07 by glum_hippo
Ungefähr auf Wichtelebene. Sehr eindrucksvoll und wunderbar konstruiert (vielen Dank an den Autoren und an dumediat für die gelegentliche Zwischenhilfe)
on 17. October 2024, 15:42 by AnnaTh
Puh! Ein harter Brocken! Steckte lange fest. Als ich dann endlich die zündende Idee hatte, ging es wieder wunderbar Schritt für Schritt voran. Schweres, aber tolles Rätsel.
on 8. October 2024, 07:19 by wisty
Very long. Really smooth first half, crazy challenging middle step, more excellent logic, bizarre ending. Satisfying to discover the magic of the ruleset, and rewarding to see how the adventure path plays out. Easy to break and difficult to visualize in some places. Overall a wonderful experience!
on 6. October 2024, 09:30 by hepcecob
Hat's off to anyone that was able to solve this in a single day. Starts off easy and then gets absolutely diabolical.
on 2. October 2024, 21:53 by Piatato
Awesome!
on 25. September 2024, 16:35 by the_cogito
What an adventure, loved it, thanks!
on 25. September 2024, 11:25 by Tacosian
Loved it!
on 24. September 2024, 20:58 by Jesper
Really awesome, thanks!
on 24. September 2024, 14:56 by Agent
Awesome puzzle with some very cool loop patterns!
on 24. September 2024, 02:20 by Samish
Great fun! Not too hard to find what clues to use, but even then a couple steps were tricky. There's one clue that I particularly loved in the bottom :D
on 22. September 2024, 20:16 by filuta
epic
on 22. September 2024, 20:04 by ONeill
Brilliant! I particularly enjoyed the bottom half. Thanks for the puzzle
on 22. September 2024, 14:21 by dumediat
Thank you for taking me on this incredible journey! :D
