Salchow
(Published on 17. February 2025, 20:53 by FischmitFahrrad)
Look-Air + Icebarn/Icewalk Hybrid:
Divide the grid into icy and non-icy cells.
Orthogonally neighboured icy cells form an ice area. Each ice area must be a square. No two ice areas (squares) of the same size may "see" each other (i.e. not have a vertical or horizontal line of non-icy cells between them). The holes inside the grid do not block vision.
Digits represent how many of the five cells forming a cross around the clue (including itself) are ice cells.
Draw a path from IN to OUT into the grid. The path travels orthogonal through the centers of some cells. On non-icy cells the path can turn, but never touch or cross itself.
On icy cells the path cannot turn, but can cross itself. The path has to go through all ice areas (not necessarily all icy cells) and all given arrows in the shown direction. The path visits every digit in increasing order.
A '?' may represent any digit (from 0-5 for obvious look-air reasons).
Solution code: The number of turns in the first row, followed by the total number of ice areas (not cells). [3 digits total]
Last changed on on 17. February 2025, 21:23
Solved by Niverio, dumediat, Agent
Comments
on 18. February 2025, 00:01 by Agent
Great puzzle, the rules interactions were very rich, the deductions were brilliant.
on 17. February 2025, 21:50 by Niverio
This was an incredible puzzle for my first ever Icewalk. Thank you so much for this!
on 17. February 2025, 21:23 by FischmitFahrrad
Updated solution code to include paper solvers.
Last changed on 17. February 2025, 21:34
on 17. February 2025, 21:16 by dumediat
This is truly a stunning puzzle, there are so many different things going on with seemingly little information. Thank you so much for this!
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Thanks again for your kind words. Very much appreciated!
