#A30: Slitherlink
Slitherlink might be one of the first paper puzzle types I encountered formally (after nonograms). Earlier this year, I cracked open a puzzle book I remembered liking that has some of these and noticed that I had left several of the puzzles incomplete despite previously having a decent understanding of common patterns; upon looking back, it occurred to me that several of the deductions I was missing involved a cool idea of set theory applied to gridpoints along a diagonal. In this way, I think Slitherlink can be versatile and have a bit of a learning curve (which doesn't shoot off into the clouds via penalty theory).
Unfortunately, I've been quite busy and didn't manage to set very many puzzles for it today. That being said, I think the variant puzzle I devoted most of my time to today is one of my favorite puzzles I've ever constructed. Maybe it's for a similar reason that I think a lot of my variant puzzles from 2022 were great? Nevertheless, I feel like I uncovered a lot of special logic in it despite only having one small example puzzle.
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