So I think you're heading to LET: (X or W) = LETTER, split -> LET. But I'm not seeing how I can massage the grid around it. I fear I might be too far into a dead end to back out easily :-(
I'm playing minesweeper on a website that says you can win using pure deduction without guessing, and I am currently stuck in the top left corner of the map. It's a 30x16 grid with 170 mines and the rest of the grid is solved. Is this possible without guessing? Since there are 5 blocks on the t...
that makes sense - i don't think the example was too hard, but finding the break-in was difficult for me. and i used a lot of the checkerboard pattern in the solve, which is very specific to that puzzle
ah exactly, break-ins are pretty hard to find in this puzzle, but once you had that usually the solving goes smoother (this might be similar to hitori, but hitori is way smoother after the break-in)
When it's fat then it's thin.
When it's slim then there's min.
When it's fights there is hope.
'Til it's outside, then nope.
You can take it if you think you must.
You can give it if you're feeling trust.
The first one's for whenever you're able.
The last one, you might find a poker table.
What i...
I am trying to solve this Jane Street puzzle with the solution given here. I briefly summarise the problem here.
For convenience I will rewrite the puzzle here:
Five children went trick-or-treating together and decided to randomly split their candy haul at the end of the night. As it turned out,...
The puzzle itself is this: "Next door to me live four brothers of different heights. Their average height is 74 inches, and the difference in height among the first three men is two inches. The difference between the third and fourth man is six inches. Can you tell how tall is each brother?"
Now,...
Hints 1, 2, 3; CCCC hint 4: However, everything else msh210 said in his guess was correct. (Refer to hint 3 to see what I deemed as incorrect.) And the second letter is U.
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
This is a Sashigane puzzle, where you divide the grid into L shapes.
Rules taken from Nikoli:
Divide the grid into L shaped blocks - one block wide. All blocks must be L shaped.
Cells wit...
Here are two examples of correct answers:
To lose one's CD ---> To make known
ANSWER: Disc-lose Disclose
Who's great deed? Oh, hers ---> Down
ANSWER: Feat-hers Feathers
Now, what are the answers to these?
When road vehicles turn bad ---> Delicious
The sounds of precious rocks ---> Jewelry
Sourc...
I'm playing minesweeper on a website that says you can win using pure deduction without guessing, and I am currently stuck in the top left corner of the map. It's a 30x16 grid with 170 mines and the rest of the grid is solved. Is this possible without guessing? Since there are 5 blocks on the t...
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
This is a Sashigane puzzle, where you divide the grid into L shapes.
Rules taken from Nikoli:
Divide the grid into L shaped blocks - one block wide. All blocks must be L shaped.
Cells wit...
Here are two examples of correct answers:
To lose one's CD ---> To make known
ANSWER: Disc-lose Disclose
Who's great deed? Oh, hers ---> Down
ANSWER: Feat-hers Feathers
Now, what are the answers to these?
When road vehicles turn bad ---> Delicious
The sounds of precious rocks ---> Jewelry
Sourc...
