Puzzle #120: Line of Sight

I still enjoy making these puzzles. It's not the easiest to create openings, so they end up somewhat similar. But once you get going, it's really fun to play around with. This puzzle is of medium difficulty. I've made a few harder ones, but still some trickier points.

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Puzzle #87: Line of Sight

I know my production has faultered a bit since the holidays. It's been a bit of a busy period. I'm now going to try to post 3 puzzles per week. One on Tuesday, one on Thursday and one in the weekend.
I'm starting this off with a Line of Sight puzzle. It's still a genre I really like. I tried to incorporate some standard tricks that show up in these puzzles. I think it worked out nicely and I especially like how it finishes.

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Puzzle #60: Line of Sight

I still really love this genre. They are just fun to design and I think they are fun to solve. So I figured to really represent my taste in puzzles, this would be a good puzzle type to put in. I tried to make this one flow from the opening. I'm not sure how people found it in competition. It might be a bit hard to get into if you've never done them before. This ended up being the highest scoring loop puzzle.

On an unrelated note, I haven't actually made any puzzles since coming home from Eger. I'm not sure when I'll get started again but I'm a bit inspirationless at the moment. I hope to have some puzzles ready after this 24 hour puzzle championship run down though.

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Puzzle #46: Line of Sight

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Not much to say about this design. It look nice and solves nice. It's a bit tricky, but not overly so. Just enjoy.

Puzzle #31: Line of Sight

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I have this tendency to go overboard with difficulty when trying out genres I have never designed before. It helps me to discover what is possible under the rules. This puzzle is one of those puzzles. It's a really tough puzzle, but I like it. You can get throught it logically, but it might take a while. The high difficulty is mainly caused by the fact the path is very narrow and requires you to take multiple clues into account at a time.

Puzzle #21: Line of Sight

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I am a fan of loop puzzles. When I saw this one, I thought "that's clever". The names it was under were Sight and Site Line, but I thought Line of Sight had a better ring to it. For the Layout I had several ideas which you can see here. The right top one was preferred by people I asked. The left top one is the original layout. If people prefer it differently, I don't mind drawing them differently.
As for the puzzle, it's not too hard. I figured I'd introduce this genre a bit more gently than I normally do. I have this tendency to make really hard first puzzles as it helps me discover what you can do with a genre.

[Edit] First puzzle was not unique. Fixed the left bottom corner.

Rules: Line of Sight

This genre was developed by Naoki Inaba

Draw a closed loop in the grid by connecting dots horizontally and vertically.  The clues in the grid indicate the length of the straight line segment seen in the direction of the arrow.