5 incorrect moves is what you get if you place 16, not 17 squares in the '17' region, with a shaded area to its right?
Fitting in all 17 squares turns out to be the thing which makes this puzzle unique, if that helps.
Posted 29th Jan 2020 at 10:27
Elisabeth Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: ModerateCompletion time: 10:29Used 'show wrong moves' Used 'check puzzle' when incorrect
Thanks Gareth; at least I am improving dropping down from 32 to 16 and now 5 mistakes!!
Posted 29th Jan 2020 at 23:31
elo15 Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: HardHas started but not yet finished this puzzle
I got down to 2 incorrect squares which turned out to be in row 6, columns 7 & 8. I had those squares marked black (column 7) and white ( column 8). The correct pattern should have been white & black. How could I have figured that out? I finally gave up to see where the mistakes were.
elo15, if you had those two squares the way you describe then the problem was that the shaded area at the bottom was not connected to the shaded area at the top. Sounds like you solved all the hard parts of the puzzle just fine though!
Sorry guys, I did it quite quickly with no mistakes, but got interrupted in the middle which wrecked my time. It really is just a matter of following the logical steps and realising that the 17 and the 10 are going to take up a lot of space. Also, SPOILER ALERT, don't assume that everything connects in the centre.
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Fitting in all 17 squares turns out to be the thing which makes this puzzle unique, if that helps.
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