Okay so this time puzzle celebrating 1337th post :) I think this is last in the series of smaller random ideas, next one is going to be a bigger one.

This time I made a puzzle with clear rules, so called Slitherlink. The objective is to build a fenced area, a single closed loop, without loose ends, around cells on a grid, where some cells have a number inside signifying how many of the four possible edges contain piece of the loop. Cells without a digit can have any amount of loop pieces on its edges (including zero, and obviously excluding 4).

If you have any experience whatsoever doing puzzles around here, you'll know what to do next after finding the loop.

There's nothing extra hidden anywhere, it's just this: the puzzle.

(or more printer friendly version - thanks, dys!)

Made it pretty short in duration, so beware: the timer

Remember, AS ALWAYS BY DEFAULT, do not spoil the puzzle in any way.

Good luck.

Update: (at least) 32 solvers with 23 entries.

Solution

Just let me use some pictures made by some of the solvers, Gainja's or Saymon's.

I think especially Gainja's version shows the solution well. Edge letters were pretty easy and some other places in the middle were pretty clear. The rest had some possible backtracking involved, but nothing too excessive I think.

The second letter was c not r as some folks thought, well it was like a meta-puzzle I guess. First one was g not 9 but it was rather clear as it had the thing dangling at the bottom not at the same level as other letters. I guess G could be mistaken with 6 but I think it wasn't a likely mistake to make.

Congratulations to all solvers, especially to the winner.

I have not designed this type of puzzle earlier, so it was a learning experience to me as well. It required surprisingly a lot of work to tweak the hints, maybe I could've done it better / easier, but like I said that was first time experience for me (although I did know about the puzzle before).