Bosnian Snake (Full) by Prasanna Seshadri [Bonus]
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Theme: Clue Symmetry and Logic
Author/Opus: This is the 144th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Prasanna Seshadri.
Rules: Shade some cells in the grid to create a one cell-wide snake. The position of the head and tail of the snake are not known. The snake cannot touch itself, not even diagonally. The remaining unshaded numbers in the grid indicate how many of the surrounding cells are occupied by the snake.
Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the snake segments from left to right for the marked rows, starting at the top. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 2:45, Master = 4:15, Expert = 8:30
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Hard to spot a breakin to these fully clued puzzles. Solving then goes almost too quickly, with many of the numbers resolving automatically. Nice puzzle, though 🙂
The breakin location seemed obvious, but I took a long think proving uniqueness on exactly how that breakin was answered. Then the puzzle was very straightforward.