@ 2020-03-21 8:24 PM (#27767 - in reply to #27763) (#27767) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 25 Country : United Kingdom | Puzzle_Maestro posted @ 2020-03-21 8:24 PM 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! | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 12:40 AM (#27768 - in reply to #27732) (#27768) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 65 Country : United States | WA1729 posted @ 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 1:05 AM (#27769 - in reply to #27732) (#27769) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 72 Country : South Korea | Joo M.Y posted @ 2020-03-22 1:05 AM
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@ 2020-03-22 2:30 AM (#27770 - in reply to #27732) (#27770) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 9 Country : Hungary | Panni posted @ 2020-03-22 2:30 AM
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@ 2020-03-22 4:11 AM (#27771 - in reply to #27768) (#27771) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 668 Country : India | swaroop2011 posted @ 2020-03-22 4:11 AM 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 3:42 PM (#27772 - in reply to #27732) (#27772) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 22 Country : Germany | JonaS2010 posted @ 2020-03-22 3:42 PM
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@ 2020-03-22 5:11 PM (#27773 - in reply to #27732) (#27773) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 139 Country : Estonia | TiiT posted @ 2020-03-22 5:11 PM
These were the nicest answer keys I've ever seen in a puzzle competition. | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 5:27 PM (#27774 - in reply to #27732) (#27774) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 2 Country : The Netherlands | Houk13 posted @ 2020-03-22 5:27 PM 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__ | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 5:52 PM (#27775 - in reply to #27774) (#27775) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 774 Country : India | rakesh_rai posted @ 2020-03-22 5:52 PM 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 6:10 PM (#27776 - in reply to #27775) (#27776) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 2 Country : The Netherlands | Houk13 posted @ 2020-03-22 6:10 PM Thanks, I do seem to have made some mistakes copying the puzzle, that explains a lot | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 6:25 PM (#27777 - in reply to #27766) (#27777) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 59 Country : United States | bob posted @ 2020-03-22 6:25 PM 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 6:30 PM (#27778 - in reply to #27732) (#27778) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 241 Country : Indonesia | chaotic_iak posted @ 2020-03-22 6:30 PM
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@ 2020-03-22 6:41 PM (#27779 - in reply to #27732) (#27779) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-03-22 6:41 PM
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@ 2020-03-22 7:10 PM (#27780 - in reply to #27732) (#27780) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 419 Country : India | kishy72 posted @ 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 8:52 PM (#27781 - in reply to #27773) (#27781) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 668 Country : India | swaroop2011 posted @ 2020-03-22 8:52 PM TiiT - 2020-03-22 5:11 PM These were the nicest answer keys I've ever seen in a puzzle competition. Thank you. | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 8:52 PM (#27782 - in reply to #27780) (#27782) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 668 Country : India | swaroop2011 posted @ 2020-03-22 8:52 PM 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. | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-22 11:46 PM (#27783 - in reply to #27732) (#27783) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-03-22 11:46 PM
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@ 2020-03-23 3:00 AM (#27784 - in reply to #27732) (#27784) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-03-23 3:00 AM
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@ 2020-03-23 4:47 AM (#27785 - in reply to #27732) (#27785) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 187 Country : New Zealand | kiwijam posted @ 2020-03-23 4:47 AM
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@ 2020-03-23 1:01 PM (#27786 - in reply to #27732) (#27786) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 28 Country : Austria | euklid posted @ 2020-03-23 1:01 PM
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@ 2020-03-23 4:35 PM (#27787 - in reply to #27732) (#27787) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 225 Country : Thailand | tamz29 posted @ 2020-03-23 4:35 PM Nice test, Swaroop. This goes to show that not all easy puzzles are boring. A lovely introduction to these types where a lot of existing puzzles written could be impossibly difficuly for newer solvers. Thanks! | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-23 7:00 PM (#27788 - in reply to #27732) (#27788) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-03-23 7:00 PM
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@ 2020-03-23 7:00 PM (#27789 - in reply to #27732) (#27789) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
An LMI player | An LMI player posted @ 2020-03-23 7:00 PM
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@ 2020-03-23 8:41 PM (#27790 - in reply to #27732) (#27790) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 55 Country : India | pranavmanu posted @ 2020-03-23 8:41 PM
Thanks a lot Swaroop for a near perfect test Favourites were Ripple Loop set and Trio cut set Had a lot of time for the Windows but couldnt get them which was quite disappointing Enjoyed! | ||||||||||||||||||
@ 2020-03-23 10:21 PM (#27791 - in reply to #27732) (#27791) Top | |||||||||||||||||||
Posts: 170 Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2020-03-23 10:21 PM Thanks Swaroop, this felt like a perfect PR round to me. Easy puzzles (but, honestly, not *that* easy to solve rigorously, so very much appropriate for a contest targetted towards less experienced solvers. Thanks a lot! I feel lucky for the instant grading, since my one mistake was a real mistake (I'd let some transparent yajilin clues unused by the loop) and not just an input error. |