Castle Wall by Palmer Mebane
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools in linex mode where left click+drag draws lines and right click marks X’s)
Theme: White Cross
Author/Opus: This is the 32nd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Palmer Mebane.
Rules: Standard Castle Wall rules.
Answer String: Enter the length in cells of the horizontal loop segments from left to right in the marked rows, starting at the top. If the loop only has vertical segments in the marked row, enter 0. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:15, Master = 2:30, Expert = 5:00
Solution: PDF
Note: This is our first week of Castle Wall puzzles. You can find other Castle Walls from their inventor Palmer Mebane here.
A great puzzle. I especially enjoyed the upper-right quadrant of this. And absolutely lovely pairing with yesterday’s black cross.
A very neat pair of puzzles. It astonishes me that the same clues can work for both.
How embarrassing—I noticed the obvious identical clue placement and inverted shading between the puzzles, but I hadn’t realized that all of the clue numbers and arror directions were identical.
Now I’m awestruck. This pair is a masterful feat.
Ah!Even the shape similarity failed to strike me let alone the number similarity.
5:55