Logic Masters Deutschland e.V.

To date, this has been the single most challenging puzzle-setting journey I’ve ever undertaken. Dozens of successful designs for the first half of the puzzle repeatedly led to impossible scenarios in the second half, and I began to wonder whether the concept I had originally envisioned was even possible.

In the end, I spent several hours writing a brute-force script to verify whether each new deduction I wove into the solution path broke the puzzle, or if a valid layout still existed that could fill the grid. This careful dance between human creativity and computational rigor ultimately culminated in this one-in-a-million layout that is uniquely solvable, logically deducible, and true to my original vision.

After wandering through this grid for hours upon hours, my journey has finally paid off. I’m proud to present my latest puzzle to the world:
Not All Who Wander Are Lost

Good luck!

Update: This puzzle was featured on Cracking the Cryptic! Watch Simon's solve here.

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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.