17.02.2010, 05:03
This post tries to list all the items that do not occur in any of the current lists.
Typographical corrections to existing items:
battleship - the link is bulleted, unlike any others
bay - there is a spurious character after the link
Miscellaneous comments on existing items:
tloop - listed twice [ Tsuton-Rundweg (Tsutonrupu) ] [ Zwei-Farb-Rundweg (Two Tone Loop) ]
When auto-translated to English, the second entry seems to be better. While the colors are red and black in the .html, they are black and white in the .pdf.
Rule corrections for existing items:
[The currently listed translation incorrectly talks about the different squares of the dominoes rather than dominoes of different types.]
cdomi - Color Domino (.pdf: ABC Domino) - Taking the given hints into account, place dominoes (rectangles of size 2x1) of three types (html: red, blue, yellow. pdf: A, B, C) on the board. Dominoes of the same type do not touch along edges. Each domino touches, along an edge, [at least] one domino of each of the other types. Considered together, the dominoes do not fill any 2x2 blocks.
The following entries are not mentioned anywhere in the current listings.
Three of the entries (boin, doko, frame) are annotated as "needs Japanese vocabulary". These are included so that the list is complete. Solving these items requires an ability to recognize what is or is not a word in Japanese. Access to appropriate word-lists, such as for Scrabble, might allow these to be solved. [Of course, by their intrinsic natures, it is impossible to prove that these puzzles have unique solutions.]
Two of the entries (answer, hosi) are annotated as "needs extracted text". These have text-based clues embedded in the diagrams. Unfortunately the text can not be extracted for translation by ordinary means from either the applets or .pdf files. However, once this has been done, the puzzles are solvable. Appropriate translations for these puzzles are included in attached files.
answer - O X answers - [needs extracted text] Each cell makes a statement regarding how cells are marked. Any statement which is correct is marked with an "O". Any statement which is incorrect is marked with an "X". [Every cell is marked with one of these symbols.] Phrases such as "even numbers", "3-fold numbers" (multiples of 3), etc. refer to the numeric labels of the individual cells.
[A translation in English is included in the attached file. answer-english.txt]
boin - (.html only) [needs Japanese vocabulary] Place a letter (A, I, U, E, O) in each cell so that a completed crossword puzzle diagram using Romaji is formed. [Romaji is Japanese rendered with Latin letters.]
doko - [needs Japanese vocabulary] Place a (katakana) letter in each empty cell so that a completed crossword puzzle diagram is formed. Each letter in a black cell indicates that it occurs somewhere in the adjacent group of white cells in the associated direction.
doublet - (Double Letter Link) - (.html only) Place each of the words listed on the right-hand side into an empty square. A single line between squares indicates that there is exactly one character position [first, second, or third letter] where both associated words have identical letters. A double line between squares indicates that there are exactly two character positions where both associated words have identical letters. Squares which are not connected with lines may have common letters.
frame - Word Frame - [needs Japanese vocabulary] Make a loop through all the vertices. Inside the loop, every continuous group of multiple letters, either horizontally or vertically, forms a valid word which is a noun. Words are read from the top to the bottom and from the left to the right.
hosi - Earth Path: Hoshino's miracle - (.html only) [needs extracted text] Place routes on the map so that the listed clues are satisfied. Each route is between two locations. A clue such as "Japan ~ United States : 3 intervals" indicates that in order to get from Japan to the United States, 3 routes are traversed. (In this case passing through two other locations which are connected directly to each other by a route.) The routes do not form a loop. (Once a location is departed from, it is not possible to return to that location without re-tracing routes in reverse.)
[All clues have the general form used above. Both locations use the same text as displayed on the maps.]
[A translation in English is included in the attached file. hosi-english.txt]
[The associated note file (note_country.html) seems to use an early form of the puzzle's name.]
number_auto - Generated Sudoku (improved) - (.html only) <standard sudoku rules, on a standard size grid>
[A new puzzle is generated whenever "Make" is selected.]
pm - (Plus and Minus Place) - Place one "+" and one "-" in each outlined region. Separate counts are maintained for each row as it is traversed from the left to the right and for each column as it is traversed from the top to the bottom. Numbers at the top and left indicate the initial values of the associated counts. Numbers at the bottom and right indicate the final values of the associated counts. When a "+" is encountered during a traversal, the count is increased by 1. When a "-" is encountered during a traversal, the count is decreased by 1. Every square on the outside actually contains a value, but the ones that are blank have had their values hidden. Before, during, and after each traversal, the associated count stays in the range 1-3.
Typographical corrections to existing items:
battleship - the link is bulleted, unlike any others
bay - there is a spurious character after the link
Miscellaneous comments on existing items:
tloop - listed twice [ Tsuton-Rundweg (Tsutonrupu) ] [ Zwei-Farb-Rundweg (Two Tone Loop) ]
When auto-translated to English, the second entry seems to be better. While the colors are red and black in the .html, they are black and white in the .pdf.
Rule corrections for existing items:
[The currently listed translation incorrectly talks about the different squares of the dominoes rather than dominoes of different types.]
cdomi - Color Domino (.pdf: ABC Domino) - Taking the given hints into account, place dominoes (rectangles of size 2x1) of three types (html: red, blue, yellow. pdf: A, B, C) on the board. Dominoes of the same type do not touch along edges. Each domino touches, along an edge, [at least] one domino of each of the other types. Considered together, the dominoes do not fill any 2x2 blocks.
The following entries are not mentioned anywhere in the current listings.
Three of the entries (boin, doko, frame) are annotated as "needs Japanese vocabulary". These are included so that the list is complete. Solving these items requires an ability to recognize what is or is not a word in Japanese. Access to appropriate word-lists, such as for Scrabble, might allow these to be solved. [Of course, by their intrinsic natures, it is impossible to prove that these puzzles have unique solutions.]
Two of the entries (answer, hosi) are annotated as "needs extracted text". These have text-based clues embedded in the diagrams. Unfortunately the text can not be extracted for translation by ordinary means from either the applets or .pdf files. However, once this has been done, the puzzles are solvable. Appropriate translations for these puzzles are included in attached files.
answer - O X answers - [needs extracted text] Each cell makes a statement regarding how cells are marked. Any statement which is correct is marked with an "O". Any statement which is incorrect is marked with an "X". [Every cell is marked with one of these symbols.] Phrases such as "even numbers", "3-fold numbers" (multiples of 3), etc. refer to the numeric labels of the individual cells.
[A translation in English is included in the attached file. answer-english.txt]
boin - (.html only) [needs Japanese vocabulary] Place a letter (A, I, U, E, O) in each cell so that a completed crossword puzzle diagram using Romaji is formed. [Romaji is Japanese rendered with Latin letters.]
doko - [needs Japanese vocabulary] Place a (katakana) letter in each empty cell so that a completed crossword puzzle diagram is formed. Each letter in a black cell indicates that it occurs somewhere in the adjacent group of white cells in the associated direction.
doublet - (Double Letter Link) - (.html only) Place each of the words listed on the right-hand side into an empty square. A single line between squares indicates that there is exactly one character position [first, second, or third letter] where both associated words have identical letters. A double line between squares indicates that there are exactly two character positions where both associated words have identical letters. Squares which are not connected with lines may have common letters.
frame - Word Frame - [needs Japanese vocabulary] Make a loop through all the vertices. Inside the loop, every continuous group of multiple letters, either horizontally or vertically, forms a valid word which is a noun. Words are read from the top to the bottom and from the left to the right.
hosi - Earth Path: Hoshino's miracle - (.html only) [needs extracted text] Place routes on the map so that the listed clues are satisfied. Each route is between two locations. A clue such as "Japan ~ United States : 3 intervals" indicates that in order to get from Japan to the United States, 3 routes are traversed. (In this case passing through two other locations which are connected directly to each other by a route.) The routes do not form a loop. (Once a location is departed from, it is not possible to return to that location without re-tracing routes in reverse.)
[All clues have the general form used above. Both locations use the same text as displayed on the maps.]
[A translation in English is included in the attached file. hosi-english.txt]
[The associated note file (note_country.html) seems to use an early form of the puzzle's name.]
number_auto - Generated Sudoku (improved) - (.html only) <standard sudoku rules, on a standard size grid>
[A new puzzle is generated whenever "Make" is selected.]
pm - (Plus and Minus Place) - Place one "+" and one "-" in each outlined region. Separate counts are maintained for each row as it is traversed from the left to the right and for each column as it is traversed from the top to the bottom. Numbers at the top and left indicate the initial values of the associated counts. Numbers at the bottom and right indicate the final values of the associated counts. When a "+" is encountered during a traversal, the count is increased by 1. When a "-" is encountered during a traversal, the count is decreased by 1. Every square on the outside actually contains a value, but the ones that are blank have had their values hidden. Before, during, and after each traversal, the associated count stays in the range 1-3.