Re: Calcudoku Advanced Volume II is coming, opinions wanted
sjs34 wrote:
Hopefully points will be awarded as they are always an encouragement. But that obviously would compromise the solutions chapter.
You can get points (12) for all puzzles except the "warmup" ones.
There are only solutions for the example puzzles (chapter 2), and the puzzles in the "warmup" chapter.
Here's the relevant text from the introduction:
"Most puzzle books include solutions to all puzzles in the back, but not this one.
It is meant to be the book with the hardest Calcudoku puzzles out there, so I felt that
solutions should still be excluded (even though some puzzlers have lobbied against this...).
Otherwise the temptation to peek in the back for a number or two may be too great.
Exceptions are the puzzles in the ``Explanations'' and ``Warmup'' chapters:
solutions for these puzzles are in the back.
Of course, if you're really stuck with a particular puzzle you can always
email me (at (email address here)) for a hint or the solution.
And if you do really want the solutions to _all_ puzzles I'll email them to you
straight away."
sjs34 wrote:
It was nice when exponentiation and zero appeared in the same puzzle. Will this happen again?
Good one, thanks, I don't think there are zero+exponentiation puzzles in there, will fix that
sjs34 wrote:
Will extra large include regular puzzles >15 or twins >8?
The "extra large" chapter has two of 11x11, 12x12, 13x13, 14x14, 15x15, and one 17x17.
There are three 10x10 twins (and one 8x8 no-op twin
)
Patrick