Puzzles #596 & #597 - Lookalikes (Mukkonn Enn & Detour)

It's always fun when one genre can be used to implement another genre. Here's a Mukkonn Enn and Detour that both reflect a different genre - and in one case, two!

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ROT13'd, the other genres are TRENQRJRT/ENVYCBBY & QHGPUYBBC.

Puzzle #150 - Discord Request (Hybrid Loop)

This is the last time I ask the Puzzlers Club Discord for ideas of what to make... I got some very silly prompts (penalty Heyawake with a 150 clue, for one) and a couple ideas that I really liked for this milestone, such as a 15x10 grid and placing a 150 within it with 1 5 0 clues. TheGreatEscaper also suggested a hybrid puzzle, and so I made this. It's... probably the hardest puzzle I've made yet, again. And it was also probably the hardest puzzle for me to make that I've made thus far, too.

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Rules: Draw a loop that travels through all cells. In each numbered room, at least one of the following three conditions must be met:

Detour: The number indicates exactly how many times the loop must turn in its room.

Haisu Loop: The number indicates exactly how many times the loop enters its room.

Maxi Loop: The number indicates the exact length of the longest visit in its room.

Any coloring in the penpa interface is for theme highlighting only. Thanks to TGE for testsolving this, especially identifying 3 different points in the intended path which were broken. Fortunately, all of them ended up being fixable without compromising the path.

Puzzle #69 - No Time to Stop (Detour)

Today I've prepared another Detour puzzle. Detour is a creation of Wen and was featured in... WAPC Part 2 to no one's surprise. The rules are very simple: draw a loop through all cells in the grid. Each numbered room must contain exactly that many turns.

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This is definitely a genre I've gained some appreciation for after constructing some. It never felt constrained enough when solving but after tinkering with some variances, a small change can actually force a lot.

Thus concludes the WAPC puzzle tour of the ones I made and the types I found interesting enough to make.

Puzzle #68 - Detour

This is a Detour puzzle. What's Detour, you ask? Detour is a creation of Wen and was featured in... WAPC Part 2 to no one's surprise. The rules are very simple: draw a loop through all cells in the grid. Each numbered room must contain exactly that many turns.

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