Shading and Loops - 20th - 25th Mar 2020 - Puzzle Ramayan & IPC Qualifier 2020 | |
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Posts: 26 Location: Finland |
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Posts: 59 Location: United States | Let a = corner with loop arms going down and to the right, b = down and to the left, c = up and to the left, d = up and to the right, - = horizontal, l = vertical, . = empty. My solution row by row is ..a--b, a-cabl, l..lll, la-cll, ll.acl, dc.d-c This this leads to the code 320212 which is incorrect. I presume I misinterpreted the rules somewhere but I've never had so much difficulty with a 2-point puzzle. Thanks for your time and for especially for providing something interesting to do during these crazy times. Please be careful. -bob | ||||||||||||||||||
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author Posts: 668 Location: India | Timjamiller - 2020-03-21 7:17 AM This is the first set that I was able to complete in time while live. So I'm excited about that, even if the test seems to have been on the easier side. I definitely needed to reread the instructions a couple of times in order to find the solutions, especially for Ripple Loop. But overall I'm pleased with my result. Hooray! Well Done. Indeed that was the intention, for many people to complete the test. I am glad you enjoyed an are happy. | ||||||||||||||||||
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author Posts: 668 Location: India | bob - 2020-03-21 6:58 PM Let a = corner with loop arms going down and to the right, b = down and to the left, c = up and to the left, d = up and to the right, - = horizontal, l = vertical, . = empty. My solution row by row is ..a--b, a-cabl, l..lll, la-cll, ll.acl, dc.d-c This this leads to the code 320212 which is incorrect. I presume I misinterpreted the rules somewhere but I've never had so much difficulty with a 2-point puzzle. Thanks for your time and for especially for providing something interesting to do during these crazy times. Please be careful. -bob May I know, which 2 point puzzle you are mentioning here? There are many puzzles. (Myopia, RL, Transparent Yajilin?) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 54 Location: United States | Hey Bob. One misinterpretation you're having is that you're allowing empty spaces to occur. The puzzle instructions say that the loop must visit every cell. The rule I was having trouble with was the horizontal/vertical adjacency stuff...mostly because I overlooked that in my first readthrough. I was originally thinking that it was path adjacent (like ghirsh) and not cell-adjacent. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 25 Location: United Kingdom | The instructions say 'Draw a closed loop that connects the centres of ALL cells horizontally or vertically', so your solution is wrong, namely because there are empty cells. Details like these are very important! | ||||||||||||||||||
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Shading and Loops (PR 2016/17) Author Posts: 63 Location: United States |
Very nice puzzles! These were all well written. I like Transparent Yajilin a lot and hope it shows up more often. Favorites: 2 Nurikabe 11 Border Nurikabe 14 Yajilin 16 Ripple Loop 22 Transparent Yajilin | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 72 Location: South Korea |
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author Posts: 668 Location: India | WA1729 - 2020-03-22 12:40 AM Very nice puzzles! These were all well written. I like Transparent Yajilin a lot and hope it shows up more often. Favorites: 2 Nurikabe 11 Border Nurikabe 14 Yajilin 16 Ripple Loop 22 Transparent Yajilin Thank you. I liked it too, a very interesting set of deductions can be possible in this variant. Hopefully, I will create more puzzles of this type in future. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 22 Location: Germany |
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Posts: 139 Location: Estonia |
These were the nicest answer keys I've ever seen in a puzzle competition. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 2 Location: The Netherlands | I really enjoyed the puzzles, though I think I don't get the windows rules completely. Can someone explain why this solution to puzzle 5 isn't valid? (x = shaded, _ is white) ___xxxxx xx_x____ _xxxxxxx _x______ _xxxxxx_ _x____x_ xxxx_xxx _____x__ | ||||||||||||||||||
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Mean Minis (2020) Author Posts: 774 Location: India | Houk13: In your solution, many given shaded cells are showing as unshaded. (Example R2C7). Did you solve the same puzzle? Otherwise, it seems a valid windows solution. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 2 Location: The Netherlands | Thanks, I do seem to have made some mistakes copying the puzzle, that explains a lot | ||||||||||||||||||
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Posts: 59 Location: United States | Timjamiller - 2020-03-21 9:21 AM Hey Bob. One misinterpretation you're having is that you're allowing empty spaces to occur. The puzzle instructions say that the loop must visit every cell. The rule I was having trouble with was the horizontal/vertical adjacency stuff...mostly because I overlooked that in my first readthrough. I was originally thinking that it was path adjacent (like ghirsh) and not cell-adjacent. Thanks for finding my mistake. Even when re-reading my eyes gloss right over the little word "all" since I am assuming it is a Masyu variation (which it is not). This makes the larger puzzles possible; thanks again. bob | ||||||||||||||||||
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Typed Logic Author Posts: 241 Location: Indonesia |
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SM 2020 (Math) Author Posts: 417 Location: India |
Great puzzles with a good balance of difficulty. I had a smooth run until I hit Windows (7) and Border Nurikabe (12).These 2 ate up a sizeable chunk of my time.In the end, I was just extremely lucky to submit the 12 pointer at exactly the last second !! Thanks Swaroop for a nice puzzle set.Favourites are Nurikabe and Myopia. | ||||||||||||||||||
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author Posts: 668 Location: India | TiiT - 2020-03-22 5:11 PM These were the nicest answer keys I've ever seen in a puzzle competition. Thank you. | ||||||||||||||||||
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PR 2020 (Shading and Loops) Author Posts: 668 Location: India | kishy72 - 2020-03-22 7:10 PM Great puzzles with a good balance of difficulty. I had a smooth run until I hit Windows (7) and Border Nurikabe (12).These 2 ate up a sizeable chunk of my time.In the end, I was just extremely lucky to submit the 12 pointer at exactly the last second !! Thanks Swaroop for a nice puzzle set.Favourites are Nurikabe and Myopia. Thank you. Made it just in time. Well done. | ||||||||||||||||||
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