Comments on: Puzzle 415 (Fillomino) [Liar]

By: Z

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:29:13 +0000

I came up with this variation concept as well (although I never ended up making one )

By: Para

Para — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:17:25 +0000

I knew I had seen this before, just couldn’t figure out who had done it.

By: MellowMelon

MellowMelon — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 14:16:45 +0000

I don’t think I actually saw your use of that variation beforehand. Guess I actually got beaten to that idea. Nice puzzle too.

By: Bryce Herdt

Bryce Herdt — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 09:36:05 +0000

I’m taking too long to ask this, but did I inspire you to put this variation in? ‘Cause… well, cyrebjr.livejournal.com/34526.html

By: ksun48

ksun48 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:59:25 +0000

But on the competition, you should print them.

By: chaotic_iak

chaotic_iak — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:22:42 +0000

I solve most in Paint. Yes, ineffective, but when not being pressured by time it’s okay. In the test I’ll solve most in Paint or Excel; only when I need I copy the puzzle to my puzzle notebook.

Yes no printing. If I go to print them first I’d lose 10-15 minutes. Screw my printer being unable to connect with my laptop that I use for internet etc.

By: ksun48

ksun48 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 20:54:59 +0000

Great puzzle as always. Liar Slitherlink was great; I hope this will add a different perspective to the type.

@chaotic_iak: You solve in Paint? That seems really inefficient, and I hope during the actual test you don’t do that . I stopped that after trying to solve mathgrant’s large puzzles or MellowMelon’s harder Fillomino in Paint. The only types I would see feasible in paint are things like Tapa, Nurikabe, etc. Even Corral is pretty cumbersome.

By: chaotic_iak

chaotic_iak — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:24:16 +0000

Okay that sounds stupid. I mean I think my point/minute score for the big-pointers will be lower than for the small-pointers.

Also finally solved all previews. Made a mental checklist of avoiding certain stupid errors appearing when solving the previews, and also to use the solving instruments more effectively (shading a liar gray in MS Paint for Liar and using MS Excel for Skyscrapers, among other things). Yay.

By: MellowMelon

MellowMelon — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:06:56 +0000

The big pointers are big pointers for a reason, of course.

Snake being earlier than Sum was due to mathgrant and I not quite alternating who made which preview, but yes, going in order was intentional.

By: chaotic_iak

chaotic_iak — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:04:20 +0000

Satisfying solve.

I just noticed that you posted the preview puzzles in roughly the order they will appear in the test, save for Snake being earlier than Sum. The big-pointers will be my weak points since now I still haven’t managed to solve the Skyscrapers preview Let’s see…