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Location: Germany | I'd love to see some hints on how to solve the dotted snakes. I managed to guess possible solutions to the left two puzzles by now, but I find snakes hard enough to solve without the added interactions between the grids. General snake solving advice would also be appreciated -- I often struggle on those croco snakes that some people throw out in a couple of minutes…
Also, thanks a lot for the test. I loved the concept of the test, and the puzzles that I solved. The puzzles were a bit on the hard side for me, so that guessing instead of staring in places would probably have been a good idea. In the end, I was surprised by how well I placed, since it didn't seem like a good performance. I sunk a lot of time into the Easy as ABC that turned out to be broken in the very end, and never felt fast. |
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Location: Belarus | rob - 2011-12-07 4:54 PM
I'd love to see some hints on how to solve the dotted snakes. I managed to guess possible solutions to the left two puzzles by now, but I find snakes hard enough to solve without the added interactions between the grids.
The intended order of solving was starting from bottom right and going clockwise: in that case every single puzzle could be solved uniquely. |
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Classics & Regions (PR 2016/17) Author
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Location: Germany | forsmarts - 2011-12-07 7:11 PM
rob - 2011-12-07 4:54 PM
I'd love to see some hints on how to solve the dotted snakes.
The intended order of solving was starting from bottom right and going clockwise: in that case every single puzzle could be solved uniquely.
Thanks, I got through now. It turns out the two solved grids were ok. I realized some new things about dotted snakes in the process (particularly how they're close to "star battle" in some ways), though I didn't actually manage to prove uniqueness. |
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