#444 - Country Road, Balance Loop, Disorderly Loop, & Midloop Mash-Up

     Here's another big loop genre mash-up!

    Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells so that the rules of each genre are met.

    Country Road (Top left):
    Each Country Road region must be passed through exactly once. 
A number in a region represents how many cells in the region are visited by the loop. Orthogonally adjacent cells in different Country Road regions may not both be unused.

    Balance Loop (Top right):
    The loop must pass through each circle. 
The straight line segments coming out of a white circle must have equal length, while the straight line segments coming out of a black circle must have different lengths. A number in a circle represents the sum of the lengths of these two line segments.

    Disorderly Loop (Bottom left):
    Clued cells may not be used by the loop. Clues represent the lengths of the next N line segments appearing in the loop, not necessarily in order, starting with a line in the cell adjacent to the clue in the direction of its arrow and moving in the direction of the arrow, where N is the amount of numbers in the clue.

    Midloop (Bottom right):
    The loop must pass through each circle. 
Each circle marks the center of the straight line segment it lies on.

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Comments

  1. That was fantastic! Took me about 52 minutes. It seems you've set up the answer check so it doesn't pass if any cells are shaded (which I did to help with the Country Road section). Might be simpler to just verify lines?

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    1. Thanks so much! I appreciate the comment :) Yeah, maybe that'd be a smarter way to check the answer...

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  2. Just under 70 minutes with a couple of breaks in there for this one, a really enjoyable combination despite how much Balance Loop messes with my brain's insistence on trying to apply Masyu rules :p

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    1. Awesome! I've had that problem with Balance Loop as well, but after solving quite a few I've gotten used to it. Thanks for solving!

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