Like my Projective Plane Amoeba, this is another puzzle I made for a contest in a Discord server I’m in. The theme this time round was to create a ‘twilight’ variant of an existing genre, i.e., a variant where ‘shaded’ clues are to be interpreted differently (usually the opposite way) from ‘unshaded’ clues. I use scare quotes there because the definition of ‘shading’ was intentionally loose so as to allow for genres other than pure shading genres to be featured.
Accordingly, I chose to make a Twilight Myopia; I’ve already made several Myopias and Hyperopias, after all, so combining the two of them into a twilight hybrid seemed a very natural choice. Like my Amoeba, this puzzle ended up solidly in the middle of the final leaderboard, which is about what I expected; it’s not a very smooth puzzle, but it does at least have a couple of interesting moments, so I’m decently happy with it. Enjoy!
Ruleset
- Draw a single non-intersecting loop along the edges of some cells.
- A clue inside the loop is a Myopia clue: it points towards all cardinal directions whose closest visible lines are the closest to the clue.
- A clue outside the loop is a Hyperopia clue: it points towards all cardinal directions whose closest visible lines are the farthest from the clue.
- A direction without a visible line is treated as having the closest visible line at infinity, and is therefore always the farthest.
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