| Thurs 11 Jan (Thursday, 11th January 2007) |
PuzzleLover
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1033
Best Total: 38m 17s | Posted - 2007.01.11 06:53:10
I got here quickly enough, then stumbled hard, trying several unlucky guesses that were neither obviously wrong nor led to an obvious solution. How do you wizards finish quickly from here? Thanks.
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procrastinator
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1083
Best Total: 12m 56s | Posted - 2007.01.11 07:22:43
There's a simple Highlander in the top left but I didn't see that. 
I imagined lines in and out of the top-right corner, and noted that it sent three threads into the top left. And so does making that same connection concavely. |
procrastinator
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1083
Best Total: 12m 56s | Posted - 2007.01.11 07:28:52
Quote: Originally Posted by procrastinator There's a simple Highlander in the top left but I didn't see that. |
I did some reading in the top right like Puzzlelover did, but it turns out if you use the Highlander mentioned above first, you get a second occurrence of the same pattern that solves the whole thing without any reading, making it a viable sub-minute puzzle. Gotta get better at spotting those.
Last edited by procrastinator - 2007.01.11 07:31:05 |
Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5669
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2007.01.11 08:27:15
corner 2:
tail of corner 2 plus counting:
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foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3405
Best Total: 24m 6s | Posted - 2007.01.11 09:16:34
This bit of the puzzle is the only reason that it got rated a "hard", I think. Certainly the first part was very easy!
From here, I could just see the solution - no conscious logic involved at all. I like it when that happens, as it saves a lot of trial and error or brainwork, but it doesn't happen very often. |
procrastinator
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1083
Best Total: 12m 56s | Posted - 2007.01.12 02:38:47
Seems this has gone from "How do you do it without guessing" to 57 seconds, the new record for Thursday. So how did you do it, Oyvind? |
oyvind
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 6548
Best Total: 12m 45s | Posted - 2007.01.12 12:06:38
Well, line counting helped me a bit. The column with the 2s has odd number of lines, so I knew only one horizontal line would fit (three was impossible). Because of that I saw that the bottom line (of the two 2s) did not make any sense. This was my next step:
Then I saw that if I continued horizontally with the middle line (between the 2s) the semi-loop to the right didn't make it.
Then it was easy  |
