Thursday, May 8, 2025

Genre Spotlight 32: Second Corner (Puzzles 282 and 283)

Second on the list (no pun intended) is Second Corner, a genre from the 2008 Japan Puzzle Championships.  Earlier this year, I went on a bit of an archival kick and extracted the 2006 through 2008 JPCs from the Internet Archive.  While doing so, I stumbled upon this type and thought it was interesting enough to pursue further.

Rules: Draw a loop passing vertically and horizontally through all non-black cells, including those with arrows.  Arrows and numbers show the number of spaces to the second turn of the loop following the loop in the direction of the arrow.  (The loop is not directed; arrows can go in either direction.)

 

Two puzzles today.  The first puzzle was from the Beginner Division of the LPO.  I'm quite happy with the theming on this one.

Puzzle 282 (Penpa)

 

The second puzzle is original to this blog, written as I'm making this post.  It's somewhat more difficult.

Puzzle 283 (Penpa)


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