No. 8

About Hedge

Hedge is a free daily slitherlink from Mind Loft, the loop puzzle also known as fences or takegaki. Every day you get a grid of numbered cells, and one single closed loop that satisfies all of them. A number says exactly how many of that cell’s four sides the loop uses.

The deductions build on each other: a 0 kills four segments at once, a 3 in a corner forces its two outer walls, and every dot the loop reaches must have exactly two lines leaving it. Cross out the segments you have ruled out, watch each number dim as it is satisfied, and the loop closes itself.

A new loop drops every day at midnight Eastern, and Sundays step up to a 10×10 Edition. No app, no signup, play free in your browser, keep a streak, and race the daily leaderboard. More dailies: Etch, our picture logic, Suds, our daily sudoku, and Carve, our equal-sum grid.