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Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
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marblevolcano
Posted on: Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:07 am
Posts: 279 Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 2:17 pm
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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!
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starling
Posted on: Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:17 am
Posts: 212 Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 2:11 am
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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.
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paulv66
Posted on: Sat Jun 26, 2021 1:23 am
Posts: 959 Location: Ukraine Joined: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:03 pm
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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.
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swimminghorses
Posted on: Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:51 pm
Posts: 14 Joined: Sat May 19, 2012 11:28 pm
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Re: Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
thank You
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eclipsegirl
Posted on: Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:24 pm
Posts: 692 Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:20 pm
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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
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clm
Posted on: Sun Jun 27, 2021 10:25 am
Posts: 857 Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 6:51 pm
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Re: Yet another beautifully designed 8x8 user-created puzzle
Very nice puzzle . Thank you swimminghorses.
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