How to design the Pathmaker

• If this is your first time ever to build a Pathmaker, don’t go for a particularly hard design, but do a simple one.

• Click on your Pathmaker and you'll see two options:
  • Change to Aqueduct-Linking Mode
  • Open for Judging

• There are 2 design modes:
  • Aquaduct-linking mode (the black links)
  • Tower-placing mode (the red and blue dots)

Rules

The object of the puzzle is to join all towers into a single closed loop, while obeying these rules:

• All pipes must connect up correctly to adjacent squares
• You may only have one pipe segment per square, i.e. you cannot have a "cross" pipe.
• Pipes on a square with a blue tower must be straight.
• Pipes on a square with a red tower must be a 90 degree bend.
• One of the pipes connected immediately adjacent to a blue tower must be a 90 degree bend. (Note: the rules only require one of the two to be a bend, but both can be bends if you like).
• The two pipes connected immediately adjacent to a red tower must be straight.

Start Designing

• Click on a red dot on your Pathmaker. Clicking it again will toggle it into a blue dot, clicking it again will delete the dot. (offcourse in tower-placing mode)

• If a link is not possible you won't be able to put it on your pathmaker

• Some people draw the design first in Aqueduct-Linking Mode, then add the towers afterwards.

Examples of Tower Placement

• Example of red dots and how they can link - you see they can only from 90° angles and can't be put next to each other, need at least 1 empty space in between them

you can however put blue dots in between the red ones:

• Example on the blue dots and links (blue dot can (although you can place a blue dot in a corner, you will not be able to link it):