Last weekend, the 2012 Indian Puzzle Championship was held at LMI. Like last year, I provided some of the puzzles for it, alongside Deb Mohanty, Serkan Yurekli, and Thomas Snyder. Six out of the 30 puzzles were mine; I’ve reproduced them in this post for anyone who hasn’t seen that championship. Enjoy.
Archive for the ‘Liar Slitherlink’ Category
IPC 2012 Puzzles
June 6, 2012Puzzle 403 (Slitherlink) [Liar]
May 30, 2012This is a Slitherlink puzzle, with a twist. Exactly one clue in each row and column is false. Which clues are lying is up to you to determine.
Puzzle 403
Puzzle Pack Vol. I: Slitherlink
January 1, 2012Happy 2012 from the Eastern US timezone. Expect Puzzle 382 to be posted on the 4th.
Download the pack (PDF; 1.27 MB)
This pack contains
- A Slitherlink primer for novice solvers
- 15 classic Slitherlinks, mostly on the easier side
- 5 variations with 3 puzzles each: All Threes, Interior Path, Domino, Relation, Liar
- 3 chimeras each combining two of the above variations
- 2 larger puzzles
- Hints and solutions for each puzzle
Version 2 uploaded on 1/3/2012 10:12 AM ET. Fixed multiple solution errors in I.12 and I.23.
Version 3 uploaded on 1/8/2012 12:28 AM ET. Fixed a major uniqueness error in I.35.
There is a nontrivial possibility of a broken puzzle somewhere. If you think you’ve found one, you may either comment here or email me at palmermebane -at- gmail -dot- com. Any updates to the pack will be announced in this post, so be sure to check here first before reporting an error.
Melon’s Puzzle Zoo has ended
February 28, 2011Around the time of this posting, LMI is no longer accepting score submissions for the contest. Below is a link to the puzzle booklet, the same as the one on LMI without the password. There is also a PDF that has all of the puzzles on the test together with their solutions (don’t open if you don’t want to see them yet!), as well as some brief comments from myself about the puzzles. Mostly I pointed out the tricky innovative logic the puzzle had, if any — and for the adults there almost always was some.
Puzzle 288 (Liar Slitherlink)
February 20, 2011This is a Liar Slitherlink puzzle.
Puzzle 288
Part 7 of 12 in the Melon’s Puzzle Zoo preview series.
Answer Entry: Some squares are marked with letters. For each letter in alphabetical order, determine how many of the nine squares bordering the lettered square, including the square itself, are contained inside the loop. Enter these digits in alphabetical order by letter.
Highlight to see answer: 61356436
Puzzle 261 (Slitherlink) [Liars]
September 9, 2010This is a Slitherlink puzzle, with a twist. Exactly one clue in each row and column is false. Which clues are lying is up to you to determine.
Puzzle 261
The new set of tools is still in progress. I brought this up with an old version dug up from my email inbox, because this idea really wanted to go free.
Puzzle 233 (Slitherlink) [Liars]
April 2, 2010This is a Friday Slitherlink puzzle, with a twist. Exactly one clue in each row and column is false. Which clues are lying is up to you to determine.
Puzzle 233
As you no doubt suspected, this blog is still going to continue on. If you believed otherwise, you were April fool’d by a prank I thought would fool no one. Also, I am not an elaborate alternate persona concocted by glmathgrant. Well, I don’t think so at least… if I were it would be most elaborate case of schizophrenia known to mankind. Hell, I’d be living in two different places at the same time.
Puzzle 142 (Slitherlink) [Liars]
December 27, 2009This is a Sunday Slitherlink puzzle, with a twist. Exactly one clue in each row and column is false. Which clues are lying is up to you to determine.
Puzzle 142
Not the usual Sunday level of challenge, but still fairly tough considering every cell in the grid has a clue in it. This one is placed where it is due to being a little more quirky than my usual puzzle, as many of my Sunday puzzles are.
Puzzle 121 (Slitherlink) [Liars]
December 6, 2009This is a Sunday Slitherlink puzzle, with a twist. Exactly one clue in each row and column is false. Which clues are lying is up to you to determine.
Puzzle 121
A variation that is back by popular demand. Speaking of which, if there’s any other puzzle types you want to see more of, commenting positively on existing puzzles of that type is a good way of letting me know.
Puzzle 92 (Slitherlink) [Liars]
November 6, 2009This is a Slitherlink puzzle, with a twist. Exactly one clue in each row and column is false. Which clues are lying is up to you to determine.
Puzzle 92
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