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Voxas Vacation - 2nd April to 22nd April
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Subject: Re: Voxas Vacation - 2nd April to 22nd April @ 2022-03-31 8:06 PM (#30484 - in reply to #30481) (#30484)Quote Reply Top


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kheti
Subject: Re: Voxas Vacation - 2nd April to 22nd April @ 2022-03-31 10:49 PM (#30485 - in reply to #30481) (#30485)Quote Reply Top




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Location: India		In the About Page, under the "Penpa Interface" heading, what does point #3 "It does not matter if given borders are traced or not" mean?
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Voxas Vacation - 2nd April to 22nd April @ 2022-03-31 10:58 PM (#30486 - in reply to #30481) (#30486)Quote Reply Top


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Location: India		It means you can draw the green edge on top of a given black edge or border edge and the answer check will ignore that.
BogdanG
Subject: Re: Voxas Vacation - 2nd April to 22nd April @ 2022-04-16 11:06 PM (#30543 - in reply to #30481) (#30543)Quote Reply Top




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Location: Romania		The current one (12) has really a logical step by step path or is just trial and error?
prasanna16391
Subject: Re: Voxas Vacation - 2nd April to 22nd April @ 2022-04-22 12:35 AM (#30571 - in reply to #30543) (#30571)Quote Reply Top


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BogdanG - 2022-04-16 11:06 PM

The current one (12) has really a logical step by step path or is just trial and error?


Maybe you can watch some of the solves and see if others found a path?
Eric Fox
Subject: Re: Voxas Vacation - 2nd April to 22nd April @ 2022-04-22 12:02 PM (#30576 - in reply to #30481) (#30576)Quote Reply Top




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Location: United States		Thank+you+to+everyone+who+participated+and+commented+along+the+way%2C+and+to+all+the+LMI&#
43;way%2C+and+to+all+the+LMI+folks+who+helped+set+this+up+%F0%9F%92%95+I%27m+so+happy+
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BogdanG
Subject: Re: Voxas Vacation - 2nd April to 22nd April @ 2022-04-23 6:49 PM (#30592 - in reply to #30576) (#30592)Quote Reply Top




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Location: Romania		I dont understand the logic of the beginning. If other moves are chosen in the beginning they work fine until some moment when you realize is not correct. So for me is just trial and error.
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