| Friday 23rd March (Friday, 23rd March 2007) |
m2e
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 607
Best Total: 16m 43s | Posted - 2007.03.23 05:09:30
Mannnn that was a hard puzzle. Nearly the whole thing was fix positions for me. Anyone get it by theory alone? |
Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s | Posted - 2007.03.23 11:12:05
solution |
chairman
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 1397
Best Total: 17m 32s | Posted - 2007.03.23 20:43:41
Protected topics like these can be read before finishing the wrong. Would not it be better if this were not possible? Or, if you don't like to force people doing wrong, only an hour after the wrong button has been pushed? |
m2e
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 607
Best Total: 16m 43s | Posted - 2007.03.23 23:26:07
But people like me never do the wrong  |
nerdking
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 2699
Best Total: 23m 15s | Posted - 2007.03.23 23:40:45
The important thing was that that puzzle was rediculous |
m2e
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 607
Best Total: 16m 43s | Posted - 2007.03.24 00:21:56
Quote: Originally Posted by jankonyex |
But yeah i just tried again by not using fix position, and managed to do it. Pretty tough though!! |
Brian
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 4907
Best Total: 9m 6s | Posted - 2007.03.24 15:45:28
This pattern (which I didn't recognize) appeared twice:
My solver writes the solution in loopy format. If anyone's interested (although I realize you (m2e) said you can't use loopy), here it is. For any move that looks mysterious, marking the edge the opposite way would lead directly to a contradiction.
solution
Last edited by Brian - 2007.03.24 15:46:12 |
gadget1903
Kwon-Tom Addict
Puzzles: 325
Best Total: 23m 39s | Posted - 2007.03.24 16:38:44
Here is another pattern that helps some:
an exploration from that part of the puzzle leads to almost 50% of the solution and that pattern helps to minimize your choices.
Using Brian's pattern in the previous post on the bottom left of the puzzle and exploring from there leads to the remainder of the solution.
Last edited by gadget1903 - 2007.03.24 16:43:18 |
