Wild Camping
(Published on 3. July 2020, 16:45 by Carrick22)
During these hot days, people may want to do a little camping trip. Nothing better than a little wander through the forest !
In this puzzle, you must place tents, trees, wolves AND your van's path. Here are the properties of each one :
- Tents cannot touch each other, even diagonally.
- Each tent must be next to at least one tree.
- In the finished puzzle, each tent can be linked to an adjacent tree in such a way that any tree is linked to exactly one tent.
- Wolves cannot touch tents, even diagonally.
- The van goes through the cells horizontally or vertically. It must pass through empty cells only and its path cannot be adjacent to a wolf, even diagonally.
- The van's path cannot cross itself, nor turn back on itself. It may not visit a cell twice.
- The van's path must start at the arrow entering the grid, and leave at the arrow inside the grid.
- Clues on the top and left indicates the content of each row/column in reading order (tents, trees and wolves).
- Clues on the bottom and right indicates the number of cells visited by the van.
You can use Penpa-edit for solving it on your browser.
Solution code: Content of row A, B and column C (marked). Use "T" for a tent, "A" for a tree, "W" for a wolf, "E" for empty (no path). Use "I" for a cell with a straight line, and "L" for a turn.
Comments
on 25. July 2020, 22:01 by AndreasS
Thank you for the great puzzle. We have much fun.
on 13. July 2020, 12:03 by Carrick22
@ManuH The information is complete, there is only one wolf.
on 13. July 2020, 11:22 by ManuH
Gibt es nur einen Wolf? Oder sind die Angaben unvollständig?
on 10. July 2020, 18:25 by jessica6
this was a hard nut.
BTW why the van did not stop - maybe after the wolf was detected the campers decided it wold not be safe to camp here...
on 10. July 2020, 09:26 by ropeko
Beautiful puzzle! Looking forward for more :)!
on 5. July 2020, 13:36 by Carrick22
@ildiko The van's path can touch itself orthogonally, unlike snake puzzles.
on 5. July 2020, 13:34 by ildiko
May the path of the van touch itself? For example: May the van after the start turn right, turn left, turn left?
on 3. July 2020, 21:52 by RockyRoer
In future puzzles, the van could be required up to drive by each tent, maybe it’s the ranger or the ice cream truck or something...
- I see you found one of the themes these puzzles with have !
on 3. July 2020, 20:30 by Carrick22
@Dandelo Try to omit the wolf and see if the puzzle has only one solution. It is a proof of concept and I am still wondering how to inplement them while making the puzzle tricky. Questions marks will appear later on.
I tweaked the puzzle's rules according to your recommendations.
@glum_hippo Since The puzzles "Camping", "Wild Camping", "Night Camping" and "Forest Rangers" will have at least 16 puzzles (I hope), a number is placed to remind the solver which one of them there are solving. Not every one of them will be here, but i'll notify the publication if on another website.
I have no idea why would the van go through the forest without stopping, but oh well; i'm bad at telling stories. Maybe it's just visiting the forest during the day ?
on 3. July 2020, 20:19 by Dandelo
I suppose it means, that we can expect a series of at least 10 puzzles.
And why do you sleep in a tent if you can sleep in the van?
on 3. July 2020, 20:06 by glum_hippo
What's the significance of the 0 and 1 in the top left section of the puzzle?
Also, why does the van leave the grid if it was intending to go camping? ;)
on 3. July 2020, 19:52 by Dandelo
I think the 2nd sentence in rule 3 is not correct. It would imply that a tree can't be between two tents. I suppose it means "In the finished puzzle, each tent can be linked to an adjacent tree in such a way that any tree is linked to exactly one tent."
The exact translation for van is "Wohnmobil", but it doesn't matter.
The puzzle is nice, but ... (hidden comment)
on 3. July 2020, 16:47 by Carrick22
For German users, please let me know is some adjustments in the german page should be made. I'm unsure about a lot of the words I used such as "Wohnwagen" for "van".
