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Snake (Cipher) (1060)
Instruction:
Locate a "snake" in the grid. The snake is a path that starts in a cell, goes through some number of cells orthogonally, and ends in a cell. Each cell is used at most once by the snake. The snake may not loop around to touch itself, not even diagonally. (In other words, if two cells in the snake touch orthogonally, then they must be exactly one cell apart along the path of the snake, and if two cells in the snake touch diagonally, then they must be exactly two cells apart along the path of the snake.) Numbers outside the grid, if given, indicate how many cells in that row or column are occupied by the snake.
Some numbers in the puzzles have been encoded with letters; the same letter always stands for the same number, and different letters always stand for different numbers. It is possible for some numbers to have not been encoded; it is possible for a letter to stand for a number that appears (unencoded) elsewhere in the puzzle.
A rounded square in a cell (when provided) indicates the end of the snake. A cross in a cell (when provided) indicates that the snake cannot go through the cell.