03.06.2014, 06:03
Thank you Ulrich.
I am both surprised and happy at the result. My run was not perfect, and I thought maybe I could have finished one more easy puzzle... But I think others got very stuck in a hard puzzle somewhere.
Many of your choices were my preferred types too. Although you also chose my least favourite HCS puzzle (there were no instructions when I first met it, but since then I have learnt how to solve it).
Also I enjoy reading your comments on each puzzle here. Very instructive.
The large Tapa took me a couple of minutes to get three central segments out of the two exits, but after that it was good.
The large Yajilin I quickly saw where the '13' black cells must (approximately) be for the 5+8, but needed a guess to get started in the right direction.
The Battleships I kept moving the 1111 around until it worked, this took some time.
The Word Snakes was my favourite, I could see many words squeezing into the bottom-left area and was very satisfied when they all fit.
The Maze was definitely the hardest, although I did well in HCS 12. Roland's HCS version could mostly be solved by following a narrow path, and proving that variations would go to closed doors. But this maze had too many options, even at the very start we could go in any direction! So I just wrote a long list of letters to slowly move around. [notation: for every move I would write down the plate-letter (because this is the answer key) and also a ✓ or ✗ if that door is now open or closed].
I could see the order that the corners must be visited, getting to the first corner was hardest for me. Then I finally got to the exit but with one door closed, and odd/even parity meant I had to return to one of the corners again. I suppose all solutions have to do this, but my path was one of the longest. Well done Philipp for finding the shortest path.
(Entschuldigung an nicht-englischsprachigen Leser)
I am both surprised and happy at the result. My run was not perfect, and I thought maybe I could have finished one more easy puzzle... But I think others got very stuck in a hard puzzle somewhere.
Many of your choices were my preferred types too. Although you also chose my least favourite HCS puzzle (there were no instructions when I first met it, but since then I have learnt how to solve it).
Also I enjoy reading your comments on each puzzle here. Very instructive.
The large Tapa took me a couple of minutes to get three central segments out of the two exits, but after that it was good.
The large Yajilin I quickly saw where the '13' black cells must (approximately) be for the 5+8, but needed a guess to get started in the right direction.
The Battleships I kept moving the 1111 around until it worked, this took some time.
The Word Snakes was my favourite, I could see many words squeezing into the bottom-left area and was very satisfied when they all fit.
The Maze was definitely the hardest, although I did well in HCS 12. Roland's HCS version could mostly be solved by following a narrow path, and proving that variations would go to closed doors. But this maze had too many options, even at the very start we could go in any direction! So I just wrote a long list of letters to slowly move around. [notation: for every move I would write down the plate-letter (because this is the answer key) and also a ✓ or ✗ if that door is now open or closed].
I could see the order that the corners must be visited, getting to the first corner was hardest for me. Then I finally got to the exit but with one door closed, and odd/even parity meant I had to return to one of the corners again. I suppose all solutions have to do this, but my path was one of the longest. Well done Philipp for finding the shortest path.
(Entschuldigung an nicht-englischsprachigen Leser)