jdyer ([info]jdyer) wrote,
@ 2006-06-16 13:18:00
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US Puzzle Championship instructions posted. Two things of note:

1. No counting puzzles.
2. No division puzzles.

Whee!

My officially designated "I'm not going to try this puzzle even if I have time left" puzzle is Distance.

I've made an honest effort to like Distance. I really have. Yet I would still rather solve a 25x25 Sudoku than Distance.

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[info]motris
2006-06-17 04:02 pm UTC (link)
Wow. That's quite a statement about Distance. I'd say I'm queasy about it, but I'd never put it in the same category as those 25x25 time-wastes.

My feelings having done all of Erich's puzzle on his site is that many of them seem to fall immediately, and many seem to take awhile, with a bunch of fiddling, to fall. The question is whether you can determine which of these is the case early on if you bother to look at it.

I'm guessing a 5x5 (could be 5x6) so with 13 numbers there are 2 missing distances of all those possible. Provided its not too soon on the long end that you hit the missing distances, it may go just fine.

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