bakpao's puzzles

    Happy birthday and happy 500 puzzles to me! Here's a loop mashup to celebrate. I kind of made things very difficult for myself with the PGP R4 mock puzzle set I made last weekend. While updating my spreadsheet with all my puzzles afterwards, I noticed I was extremely close to 500 puzzles set. What's more, it's also my birthday today and I turn 27, which also happens to be my favorite number. Too many milestones and reasons for celebration, meaning I couldn't really pass up the opportunity to set something for it.  The problem, however: I only noticed this last Wednesday, and I was to leave for Spain on Friday, where I currently am to enjoy a long overdue holiday. I had to be on standby for work on Thursday and do the usual holiday preparations, so there really wasn't much time to set a puzzle.  Luckily I still managed to find a few focus hours and came up with this puzzle which I'm decently happy with. No doubt in my mind that if I had more time, I would...

 Two classic Disorderly Loop puzzles, a relatively new genre created by Eric Fox . Constructing a decent puzzle in this genre feels rather tricky, which I think shows in the first puzzle, which perhaps feels slightly cluttered. Overall, however, I think these are fairly nice for a first attempt at setting the genre. Difficulty: 2/5 for the first, 3/5 for the second (rules from Puzzle Rules ) Draw a non-intersecting loop through the centers of some cells. Clued cells may not be used by the loop. Clues represent the lengths of the next N line segments appearing in the loop, not necessarily in order, starting with a line in the cell adjacent to the clue in the direction of its arrow and moving in the direction of the arrow, where N is the amount of numbers in the clue. Puzzle #1 - Penpa:  https://tinyurl.com/3j95j4yx Puzzle #2 - Penpa:  https://tinyurl.com/2axbt8mx