@ 2011-12-07 4:54 PM (#6157 - in reply to #6156) (#6157) Top | |
Posts: 170 Country : Germany | rob posted @ 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. 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. |
@ 2011-12-07 7:11 PM (#6158 - in reply to #6157) (#6158) Top | |
Posts: 33 Country : Belarus | forsmarts posted @ 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. 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. |
@ 2011-12-08 1:27 AM (#6159 - in reply to #6158) (#6159) Top | |
Posts: 170 Country : Germany | rob posted @ 2011-12-08 1:27 AM 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. |