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Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
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Author:  marblevolcano  [ Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:07 am ]
Post subject:  Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
Today's 8x8 by swimminghorses was an absolute joy to solve. At the start, with all the 0- cages on the left, it looked nigh impossible, but the way the puzzle was designed did several things to guide the puzzler through a satisfying experience:

1) made use of a variety of puzzle-solving strategies, including parity and mapping out possibilities, but never too much speculation
2) involved several steps of similar difficulty (not easy, keeping it a challenge, but not too hard as to be discouraging) to gradually solve it

Thank you swimminghorses for yet another amazing puzzle!
Author:  starling  [ Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
I'm not going to have much free time this weekend due to work stuff, so shamefully I just bifurcated at r4c3 and it fell apart really fast. I'm excited to go back and figure out where the actual logic path was.

Edit: 5 seconds later I went back and looked at it and in retrospect the other choice is super easy to eliminate if I hadn't been speed-solving lol.
Author:  paulv66  [ Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
I agree - an excellent puzzle. Puzzles with a lot of subtraction cages can be quite challenging.

As MV says, lots of interesting steps and different techniques involved in solving the puzzle. Thank you swimminghorses.
Author:  swimminghorses  [ Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
thank You
Author:  eclipsegirl  [ Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
Marble's write up is excellent.
This was a fun puzzle to solve.
TY Swimming Horses
Author:  clm  [ Sun Jun 27, 2021 10:25 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
Very nice puzzle [thumbsup].
Thank you swimminghorses.
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