Loomlock #61, explained
The board from 2026-08-20 — a 6×6 grid of 17 clues — with its finished loop and a walkthrough of how the deduction goes.
The board
This was Loomlock #61, the daily for 2026-08-20: 3 zeros, 7 ones, 4 twos, and 3 threes scattered across 6 rows. Your task was to trace the single closed loop those numbers allow — the cord below is that unique answer, 30 edges long.
The solved loop for Loomlock #61. Each number is satisfied: it counts exactly how many of its four sides the cord runs along.
How the solve unfolds
Every step below follows by pure logic — no guessing, ever. That is the whole promise of Loomlock: because each board is verified solvable by deduction alone, an edge is only ever drawn when it is provable.
- Start at the 0 in row 1, column 6. A zero forbids the loop from touching that cell, so all four of its edges come straight off the board as crosses — no deduction required. The board carries 3 zeros in all, each an instant foothold.
- Two 3s sit shoulder to shoulder (row 3, column 3 and its neighbour). The edge they share is forced into the loop, and the two outer edges follow — a classic pattern that cracks the middle of the board open before you have touched a single clue elsewhere.
From there the loop rule finishes the job: at each lattice node the cord either passes straight through or turns, but it can never branch, cross itself, or dead-end, and every clue must end up satisfied by exactly one closed loop. Follow those constraints and the answer above is the only place they can all be true at once.