22.09.2009, 08:54
The contest for best logic innovative puzzle organized by Serbian Puzzle Association is finished. There were 28 puzzles sent by 9 authors. The members of the jury, Zoran Tanasić, Nikola Živanović and Rohan Rao made their voting and the winner of the contest became Dragan Tolomanoski from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina with his puzzle "Fleet in fenced octopus". On the officially website of Serbian Puzzle Association (http://puzzleserbia.com/index0.html) you can look at the complete voting table of the jury.
The eighteen puzzles that received at least one point together with two puzzles by Nikola Živanović will be presented on his blog Logika (http://logika-nikola.blogspot.com) within the section "Logički noviteti", one puzzle each week.
FLEET IN FENCED OCTOPUS
Connect some dots with one single line in such way that you get the shape of octopus which takes 4 squares in every row and every column. Numbers inside the grid represent ALL fields which have same numbers of fence that surround them and the neighbouring fields in which octopus is (including numbered field). Body of octopus never takes 2x2 area. After that, put standard fleet in the octopus, in such way that ships don't touch each other not even diagonally. The numbers outside the grid represent total of ship segments in belonging direction. Ships can take fields with number, too.
The eighteen puzzles that received at least one point together with two puzzles by Nikola Živanović will be presented on his blog Logika (http://logika-nikola.blogspot.com) within the section "Logički noviteti", one puzzle each week.
FLEET IN FENCED OCTOPUS
Connect some dots with one single line in such way that you get the shape of octopus which takes 4 squares in every row and every column. Numbers inside the grid represent ALL fields which have same numbers of fence that surround them and the neighbouring fields in which octopus is (including numbered field). Body of octopus never takes 2x2 area. After that, put standard fleet in the octopus, in such way that ships don't touch each other not even diagonally. The numbers outside the grid represent total of ship segments in belonging direction. Ships can take fields with number, too.