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Location: ITALY | There is an error in the answer page for puzzle 10. Two names (LAM/LAURA) share he same box |
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Location: Russia | forcolin - 2017-04-12 6:46 AM
Sorry but the instructions of puzzle 11 OPTI BALL are unclear to me. Getting old. Need help.
I notice the puzzle is similar to puzzle 8 and perhaps this may induce misunderstanding.
first question.The instructions say that I can put up to 3 right angled triangles in any cell except the start. I can see how to put ONE triangle. I can see how to put TWO triangles (for example A and D) turning a white cell into a black one. But I cannot see how I can put 3 triangles. please explain
Second question: can the ball conclude its route leaving the grid, as in puzzle 8? Or it must stay within the grid at all time, and can only conclude its path against a wall (similar to Tiger in the wood)? Are both options possible?
Third question: What do you mean with the sentence "The ball cannot return back"? I assume the path of the ball can cross itself in an empty white square as in the puzzle 8, and this sentence is not forbidding this, please confirm
1. I showed might look like the answer. It implies that the 3 triangles do not need to put in one cell. The triangles in the example were in cells H1, H0, K3.
2. Both are possible. This is the only difference between the puzzle 8 and 11.
3. The ball can cross any cell twice, but could not bounce back 180 degrees from a fully black square, that is, the path cannot overlap itself.
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Location: India | forcolin - 2017-04-12 4:14 PM
There is an error in the answer page for puzzle 10. Two names (LAM/LAURA) share he same box
Fixed. Please refresh the submission page.
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Location: ITALY | I said I am getting old......
Edited by forcolin 2017-04-12 8:07 PM
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Location: ITALY | With reference to puzzle 12: how much is the score of a line of cell with a unique path but not forming a loop? (for example a group of 3 cells) |
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Location: Russia | forcolin - 2017-04-12 8:53 PM
With reference to puzzle 12: how much is the score of a line of cell with a unique path but not forming a loop? (for example a group of 3 cells)
1 mark.
You remind me a hit of Deep Purple, which I played the guitar: "But I feel I'm growing older..." |
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Location: New Zealand | "And the songs that I have sung..."
Hi Riad, some 'easy' questions (just to clarify):
11 OPTI-ROLLBALL: We can place a maximum of 3 triangles in the grid?
11 OPTI-ROLLBALL: The path cannot repeat in an infinite loop, so "M14W" is not allowed?
11 OPTI-ROLLBALL: You can enter the start cell again (at 90 degrees), so "K17Z" is 11.5 points?
12 PENTOMINOES AND LINES: We must place all 12 pentominoes in the grid (so placing only 11 is not valid)?
12 PENTOMINOES AND LINES: In every white region, it is possible to visit every cell with a single line. So a white region in the shape of a T-pentomino is not valid?
12 PENTOMINOES AND LINES: If a region has 2 possible loops (e.g. a white 4x3 rectangle), then it gets 'many many' points? |
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Location: Russia | kiwijam - 2017-04-13 4:04 AM
"And the songs that I have sung..."
Hi Riad, some 'easy' questions (just to clarify):
11 OPTI-ROLLBALL: We can place a maximum of 3 triangles in the grid?
11 OPTI-ROLLBALL: The path cannot repeat in an infinite loop, so "M14W" is not allowed?
11 OPTI-ROLLBALL: You can enter the start cell again (at 90 degrees), so "K17Z" is 11.5 points?
12 PENTOMINOES AND LINES: We must place all 12 pentominoes in the grid (so placing only 11 is not valid)?
12 PENTOMINOES AND LINES: In every white region, it is possible to visit every cell with a single line. So a white region in the shape of a T-pentomino is not valid?
12 PENTOMINOES AND LINES: If a region has 2 possible loops (e.g. a white 4x3 rectangle), then it gets 'many many' points?
Hi James,
11. You can place a maximum of 3 triangles in the grid, but may be less, such as 2, 1 or 0.
The path cannot repeat in an infinite loop (“echo in the distance” will not help).
The start cell can be crossed again (at 90 degrees).
12. You must place all 12 pentominoes in the grid.
In every white region, it is possible to visit every cell with a single line. A white region in the shape of a T-pentomino is not valid.
If a region has 2 possible loops (e.g. a white 4x3 rectangle), then it gets 2 points. I should have been clearer to say about it in the text.
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Location: France | Argh. The goal in 12 is to *minimize* the total score!! Just spent many hours trying to maximize it... |
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Location: Indonesia | To clarify about 12: if there is a loop passing through all cells in a region, the number of marks (or rather, penalty points) you get from that region is equal to the number of loops you have there; otherwise, it's the number of lines?
Edit: More questions.
For 10, the tiebreaker is the total number of letters used in all names?
For 7, a match head catches fire if any of the other cells sharing a side to it also catches fire?
For 5, half-dominoes may not occupy black cells even if the part covering the black cells are empty (no circles)?
Edited by chaotic_iak 2017-04-13 8:36 PM
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Location: Russia | chaotic_iak - 2017-04-13 8:30 PM
To clarify about 12: if there is a loop passing through all cells in a region, the number of marks (or rather, penalty points) you get from that region is equal to the number of loops you have there; otherwise, it's the number of lines?
Edit: More questions.
For 10, the tiebreaker is the total number of letters used in all names?
For 7, a match head catches fire if any of the other cells sharing a side to it also catches fire?
For 5, half-dominoes may not occupy black cells even if the part covering the black cells are empty (no circles)?
12. Yes, number of loops/lines.
10. Maximize the number of names, using the least possible letters.
7. The head of the match lit from the flame in an adjacent cell (sharing a side).
5. The black cell should not be on half-domino. |
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Location: Turkey | It has been so much time to not attempt to solve Riad's puzzles. Yesterday I solved nine of them and I had quite fun. Thanks Riad, really I missed your style. |
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Location: Russia | yureklis - 2017-04-13 10:49 PM
It has been so much time to not attempt to solve Riad's puzzles. Yesterday I solved nine of them and I had quite fun. Thanks Riad, really I missed your style.
Thank you Serkan, I am very pleased and I'm glad to see you among the participants of April Contest! |
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Location: ITALY | For info. IUPAC has recently annouced the names (and symbols) of 4 new elements.
Nihonium and symbol Nh, for the element 113,
Moscovium and symbol Mc, for the element 115,
Tennessine and symbol Ts, for the element 117, and
Oganesson and symbol Og, for the element 118.
the new complete periodic table is available from [url] https://www.iupac.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IUPAC_Periodic_... [/url]
May be useful for the next contest.
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Location: United States | For #4 (build a circular maze), which direction are the digits going? Are they read outside to inside? |
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Location: United States | Also for #9 (Fleet between the pentominoes), how does the answer key work? It says "- or + or FILNPSTUVWXY" -- is "-" for no ship and "+" for ship and the letters for pentominoes?
Also I think there is a typo? J isn't a pentomino but N is. Or is that a different naming system?
Edited by mstang 2017-04-17 3:24 AM
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Location: India | mstang - 2017-04-17 3:08 AM
Also for #9 (Fleet between the pentominoes), how does the answer key work? It says "- or + or FILNPSTUVWXY" -- is "-" for no ship and "+" for ship and the letters for pentominoes?
Also I think there is a typo? J isn't a pentomino but N is. Or is that a different naming system?
J is used in this contest.
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Location: Russia | mstang - 2017-04-17 1:43 AM
For #4 (build a circular maze), which direction are the digits going? Are they read outside to inside?
They are read outside to inside. |
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Location: Spain | Congratulations Riad. Excellent puzzles. Great fun! |
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Location: Russia | -.ferchx.- - 2017-04-18 1:40 AM
Congratulations Riad. Excellent puzzles. Great fun!
Thank you Fernando! |
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Location: Ukraine | Thank You, Riad! You have the usual, unusual puzzles - very interesting!
Good luck and new faery tasks! |
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Location: Ukraine | ?12. Esli sushchestvuet tol'ko odin put' obhoda belogo regiona (ne petlya!) - ehto dast tol'ko odno ochko? |
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Location: Ukraine | #12. If there is only one way to bypass the white region (not loop!) - this will give only one point? |
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Location: Russia | Mihalich - 2017-04-19 11:40 AM
?12. Esli sushchestvuet tol'ko odin put' obhoda belogo regiona (ne petlya!) - ehto dast tol'ko odno ochko?
Da, Vladimir, 1 ochko. Spasibo za otzyv! Zavtra uzhe mne predstoit serjozno potruditsja i proverit vse optimajzy. |
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