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Dama's Warning

This was the puzzle I created for turn #5 of the skunkworks League. This Turn was hosted by Damasosos92. I Will provide a link to his introductory recoil puzzle where most of the participants learned about Recoils. From there if you want to try more, he has two others published. Was a fun pencil puzzle to construct. Hope you enjoy it.

I provided two links to the Recoil puzzle "Dama's Warning". One of the judges preferred to solve on Penpa, so I thought I'd give you the same option, since a Penpa link was created for the one judge. I recommend using the pzprxs link because the pzprxs link will automatically create the recoil when a line segment is created, Penpa does not do that.

Heads up! Perform a screenshot of the solution when using pzprxs in case the solution disappears after going back to LMD

Feel free to comment positive or constructive criticism.

Rules:

Draw a path from the diamond cell that visits several cells in the grid.

1. The path cannot branch off or revisit a cell it has visited before.

2. Every time the path enters a cell, an obstacle is placed in the first available cell in the opposite direction. This cell may skip over gaps in the grid, other obstacles, or cells that were previously visited by the path.

3. The path cannot enter a cell if the corresponding obstacle can't be placed inside the grid.

4. All cells must be used by a line or an obstacle.

For more in depth analysis of the rules, you can open up the example puzzle or Dama's warning on Pzprxs. Click on help. Click on rules. You will be able to get a visual of how the constraint works and what breaks the puzzle.

Damasosos92 Solve youtube solveguide

Example Recoil

Dama's Warning on PZPRXS

Dama's Warning on Penpa

Damasosos92 introductory Recoil

Example Puzzle:

Example Puzzle with Solution

Dama's Warning