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2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention Organizer
Posts: 2003
Location: India | I feel we can simplify the rules a little and mainly work with chess pieces can't attack each other and that is strong. If not, I think we will at most need the "4 of each colour" rule to make things work. Skyscraper clues are a bit unrelated to chess and may be surplus I feel. Or else we can have two separate mechanical puzzles in the round, one with skyscrapers rules and other with chess pieces rules. Either way, it needs ironing out, but I think this is a great idea for the Mechanical Single Puzzle round slot. |
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2021 World Sudoku+Puzzle Convention Organizer
Posts: 2003
Location: India | Another option is use the Skyscrapers one without the chess pieces can't attack and just the Black and White rule in WSC and the Chess pieces rule in WPC. |
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PR 2020 (Casual and Word) Author
Posts: 359
 
Location: India | I am a bit concerned about the amount of overlap between the WSC and WPC. But if we can design something substantially different then this can potentially used in 2 places (a WSC team round and the WPC team escape round) |
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WSPC Organizer
Posts: 739
Location: India | I think this should only be in WPC.
Also, I agree with Prasanna on chucking the Skyscrapers rule. I tried creating a solution, it is quite hard, and I got a nearly perfect solution (all rules satisfied except two rows having 3-5 pieces as black-white instead of 4-4). It is a really nice team round, especially when solving with the actual pieces. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME :-)
The other rules are strong enough to create a challenging puzzle.
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PR 2020 (Casual and Word) Author
Posts: 359
Location: India | If it is so constrained in terms of rules then we might have to make it instructionless (i.e provide graphical instructions during the round)
Do you think this should be a separate round or it should be included in the Escape Round? (The escape round is planned to be completely instructionless/ surprise)
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