Nurikabe Loop
Thi genre has been known by at least three names:
- Nurikabe Loop:
- ももてれう (Momotereu) in PCN Nikoli (1996)
- Bastien Vial-Jaime in Akıl Oyunları n.75 (2011)
- Grandmaster Puzzles (2014)
- PuzzleSquareJP (2021)
- Nurikabe-like Loop:
- Ludicrous Loop (2017)
- Eric Fox's Blog (2021)
- Cruise:
- Andrey Bogdanov in Akıl Oyunları, for a Christmas Contest (2009)
Toketa magazine 4 has a small article about the history of this genre, which suggests it might have been independently invented thrice. Since the earliest source lists Nurikabe Loop, this was the chosen name for the current implementation.
Nurikabe Loop puzzles
Pedro
PinkHoodie
Acknowledgements and Changes
nurikabe-loop
fixed (a recent regression found by PinkHoodie)