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Out of the loop

(Published on 20. May 2026, 13:10 by AllesUgo)

Out of the loop by AllesUgo.
I created this puzzle as part of a gift for Sniglett in last year's Secret Santa event on the Cracking the Cryptic Discord server. Sniglett kindly gave me permission to publish the puzzle, so here it is (with a couple of months delay). If you enjoy this puzzle, you might also enjoy the other puzzle I set for the same gift, which uses the same ruleset.

Rules
Normal LITS rules: Shade one tetromino of cells in each region so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area. Two tetrominoes of the same shape may not share a bold border, counting rotations and reflections as the same. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.
Normal Masyu rules: Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells that passes through every circle. The loop must turn on black circles and travel straight through the cells on either side. The loop must go straight through white circles, and turn in at least one of the cells on either side.
Hybrid: The masyu loop cannot pass through shaded LITS cells.

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Solution code: The amount of turns for each row, top to bottom (10 digits)


Solved by CHalb, puzzler05, dogfarts, JustinTucker, xiaoji, Calesch, Lizzy01, sehringdipity, KNT, jobs2554, jkuo7, Dandelo, ravenling, TheZwierz, misko, Jesper, Hizuriya
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Difficulty:2
Rating:95 %
Solved:17 times
Observed:0 times
ID:000SX2

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