tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031071943178978556.post7670868025310855923..comments2023-12-03T22:29:11.592+00:00Comments on detuned radio: Friday Puzzles #24Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031071943178978556.post-6274108232165520892009-11-22T14:12:23.000+00:002009-11-22T14:12:23.000+00:00Maybe it’s just as well kids don’t spot naked sing...Maybe it’s just as well kids don’t spot naked singles! (the sudoku technical lingo always makes me chuckle).<br><br>Initially, I didn’t really want to get too involved with thinking about the mechanical intricacies of what it actually is that makes a puzzle actually tick as I thought it’d spoil something of the fun involved in solving. However (without wanting to do any of the work myself) I’d be interested to see a study into the analysis of a few given patterns. Although I’m sure the actual logic is quite complicated, it’d seem natural that geometry ought to induce certain restrictions – how that compares to interactions in the permutation of numbers would seem to be the quantity you might want to try and measure.<br><br>Thomas Collyerhttp://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/tcollyer/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031071943178978556.post-53626412208820840212009-11-21T21:44:53.000+00:002009-11-21T21:44:53.000+00:001:46. The solution flowed the way this pattern sho...1:46. The solution flowed the way this pattern should (and how my “Four Square” in the kids division was meant to in 2008 at the Silicon Valley Puzzle Day before I learned kids don’t spot naked singles). I greatly enjoyed our discussion of construction this week.<br><br>Thomas Snydernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031071943178978556.post-53755477899540491492009-11-21T13:37:06.000+00:002009-11-21T13:37:06.000+00:00Aren’t I the most awful tease? You just have to lo...Aren’t I the most awful tease? You just have to love toying with people’s expectations of what ought to be.<br><br>Re the nurikabe, last week’s at worst you only needed to count the 25 island. When faced with lots of counting I normally group things in multiples of 5 or 10 so I thought that wasn’t too unfair – especially as getting the deductions at the top were a little tricky, and even more especially since this time the end is as it ought be!<br><br>Thomas Collyerhttp://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/tcollyer/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031071943178978556.post-24999391961279322102009-11-20T17:05:26.000+00:002009-11-20T17:05:26.000+00:00Nice, I don’t like sudoku enough to usually bother...Nice, I don’t like sudoku enough to usually bother with them but I was dying to see if there was a 5 in the top left and bottom right bits where the pattern implied there should be.<br><br>PS Thanks for the last two Nurikabe, I’m assuming that was especially for me after I complained at your lateness. Counting to 43 as a bit challenging for my liking though. :p<br><br>Elizabeth Knapphttp://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/elizabethknapp/noreply@blogger.com