Links is a puzzle about idioms of the form ”[from] A to B.” Each of the given clues obliquely describes a phrase matching that pattern, and each half of the phrase (”A” or ”B”) can be found represented by an icon in the provided grid.
After identifying all of the phrases, the icons in the grid can be connected using the rules of a Numberlink puzzle. And then, following the guidance in the flavortext to “track all of the twists and turns,” the answer can be extracted by reading where the Numberlink paths change direction.
For the normal version of this puzzle, the clues were sorted alphabetically by the answer, and the answer was extracted by reading the right angles top-to-bottom, left-to-right. For the hard version, the clues were given in a specific order. To extract the answer, the solver would follow the paths in that order (including starting at the “from” icon and ending at the ”to” icon for each clue). Even some icons were swapped between versions and the letters on the grid varied slightly, the solution to the Numberlink was the same, as was the phrase extracted: ANSWER AGE OF STEEL.
