Japanese Icewalk (2)
(Published on 21. August 2025, 00:48 by KNT)
Draw a loop that travels orthogonally from cell center to cell center in some cells of the grid. The loop may cross itself, but only on cells without a number. On these empty cells, the loop must also not turn.
A blue cell must not be empty, and must be visited by the loop. The number placed in a blue cell indicates how many cells make up the continuous non-empty section of the loop that the number is on. On any such section (that may or may not have a blue cell), numbers must not repeat.
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Solution code: Row 9, Column 8. For empty cells, I if the loop passes straight through, X for intersection, and O for no loop segment.
Comments
on 14. November 2025, 16:24 by Christounet
Wow, that was hard indeed! Some very tricky steps to spot, and yeah, miraculous ending. Thanks :)
on 4. November 2025, 10:15 by cyddrdrd
Brilliant and clean!
on 24. August 2025, 17:16 by Playmaker6174
Golly... What an epic and consistent puzzle that is.
So many glorious and rewarding logic scattered throughout - including the opening and how row 4 + row 5 worked, but man, I was on the verge to give this one 5.5 difficulty just because of that sneaky yet incredibly miraculous ending (lol)
I don't know why this one has such a low rating, the logic were so well earned in here despite the rock hard difficulty though.
on 24. August 2025, 16:50 by ibag
Once more a real masterpiece.
on 23. August 2025, 21:44 by Piatato
Awesome puzzle! Challenging and rewarding throughout!
on 22. August 2025, 10:35 by Jesper
Quite a journey... hard but rewarding :)
on 21. August 2025, 03:53 by Agent
I really enjoyed the puzzle! It flowed smoothly, the connectivity and Ice Walk clues did a lot of work.
