Featured Puzzle: Slitherlink #3 – Spring Landscaping

Spring is coming, and it’s time to start planting flowers in your garden. One popular method to amend your soil, as well as add some nice contrast, is to lay down mulch. Using the numbered flowers, can you find the area we’re going to fence in and mulch?

• Draw a single closed loop in the grid, connecting some of the fence posts shown.
• You may only draw lines between posts in orthogonal directions.
• No post is used more than once (fence lines may not cross or branch).
• Numbers in the flowers indicate how many fence segments surround them.
• Flowers might end up inside or outside the final loop.
• Cells without numbers may have any number of surrounding segments.