Monday, October 17, 2022

Puzzle #459 - X Boxes (Snake Pit X)

Snake Pit X is such a weird genre. I spent a few hours making this puzzle originally, but I kept accidentally making bad deductions where some uncircled numbers had to be heads. Okay, so the puzzle was completely broken - but I could fix it by giving a few heads in symmetric locations! Puzzle saved! Except there was still one more ugly alternative case, that I could fix with two extra 8s. Puzzle saved, and I thought I didn't need the heads any more!


I, uh. Did need the heads still. So even though the puzzle didn't totally work the way I hoped it would, the final product still has a nice solve path.

Updated to add two circles to smooth the solve some.

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