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I don’t know what you had in mind here, but I had to use a whole shovelful of meta-logic and reverse-engineering to get this one started and after that it was pretty easy.
The trickiest step is definitely early on, so that isn’t terribly surprising to hear. For a hint, try drawing a vertical line down the center of the puzzle.
This hint was really handy. Also, though I don’t know why, I had it stuck in my head that the circled “28” at center functioned as a gate, which messed me up a bit, since that would have made 29 gates. Despite my typical boneheadedness, I got there in the end.
I wasnt getting anywhere on this one (other than a bunch of initial incomplete steps). These initial steps were forcing certain paths to avoid results that would clearly lack singularity. So, I started drawing in lines along such forced paths, and then the result unfolded with a tweak here or there. I tried to go back with the solution path in find and force the answer through logic and failed (both because I couldnt see it as before, and because once you find the solution on a puzzle, your energy for finding the logic to compel it as a unique solution wanes).
I solved the puzzle, but not for the right reasons in my eyes. Feel free to judge me as you must.
This one does have a logical solution, so if you ever decide to try again to find it at some point, the hint I gave to Georgi might be useful to you too.
Melon's Puzzles 
April 3, 2010 at 1:55 pm |
I don’t know what you had in mind here, but I had to use a whole shovelful of meta-logic and reverse-engineering to get this one started and after that it was pretty easy.
April 3, 2010 at 4:14 pm |
The trickiest step is definitely early on, so that isn’t terribly surprising to hear. For a hint, try drawing a vertical line down the center of the puzzle.
April 7, 2010 at 4:33 pm
This hint was really handy. Also, though I don’t know why, I had it stuck in my head that the circled “28” at center functioned as a gate, which messed me up a bit, since that would have made 29 gates. Despite my typical boneheadedness, I got there in the end.
April 5, 2010 at 12:20 pm |
I feel dirty.
I wasnt getting anywhere on this one (other than a bunch of initial incomplete steps). These initial steps were forcing certain paths to avoid results that would clearly lack singularity. So, I started drawing in lines along such forced paths, and then the result unfolded with a tweak here or there. I tried to go back with the solution path in find and force the answer through logic and failed (both because I couldnt see it as before, and because once you find the solution on a puzzle, your energy for finding the logic to compel it as a unique solution wanes).
I solved the puzzle, but not for the right reasons in my eyes. Feel free to judge me as you must.
Ken
April 5, 2010 at 8:03 pm |
This one does have a logical solution, so if you ever decide to try again to find it at some point, the hint I gave to Georgi might be useful to you too.