Happy Birthday, wooferzfg!!
(Eingestellt am 22. April 2023, 16:45 Uhr von KNT)
Dear wooferzfg, It has come to our attention that we share a birthday? Fantastic! Both of us urbanites, let's make a birthday subway to celebrate. The subway network is fully connected with no dead ends, and clues outside the grid indicate the count of some pieces in rows and columns. However a subway is surely not enough for such an important celebration, so lets add four more puzzles on top of it - but only one in each quadrant.
Slitherlink always takes priority, of course, so let's place it in the top left. The subway always travels from cell center to cell center, so let's just move the slitherlink clues to the vertices, and they can count how many of the four surrounding edges are crossed. Perfect! We can leave the top right empty, but wooferzfg should know that a 1-star star battle is to be respected, and of course the subway cannot travel through stars... that would be silly.
"Masyu! Masyu! Masyu!" repeatedly exclaims an onlooker. Neither of us like masyu much, but the onlooker was so annoying we put it in the bottom left anyway. Important! The loop must exist entirely within the quadrant, as well as entirely lie on the subway (and, of course, use all the masyu clues correctly).
The final quadrant - the bottom right - we thought long and hard about, and settled on skyscraper clues, which should be a fairly thematic choice. Just treat turns as height 1, straight segments as height 2, branches as height 3, and crosses as height 4, and everything should go smoothly. Whoever wrote the skyscraper clues (not me of course) seemed to have poor vision, as heights outside the quadrant were not taken into account for the hints. That should be everything, I hope you like it!
Lösungscode: For each column except the last, the number of lines leading right from the column. X if greater or equal to 10.
Kommentare
am 14. Januar 2024, 02:08 Uhr von ONeill
Very fun, thanks!
am 21. Dezember 2023, 16:51 Uhr von Christounet
Pheeeeeww ! Just the right puzzle to celebrate my 1000th solve on the portal ! Now I need to rest my brain a little... miscounted the branches so many times... but it was a hell of joy to solve, with all the rules playing so well together. Wonderful gift ! Thanks :)
am 22. Juli 2023, 21:06 Uhr von Niverio
What a gift! Pretty challenging all the way through but never stops being fun.
am 7. Mai 2023, 22:38 Uhr von Piatato
Fantastic puzzle! So rich in interesting logic, and the way in which all the different parts of the grid interacted with each other was just something completely spectacular!
am 6. Mai 2023, 10:10 Uhr von Alex
AMAZING PUZZLE!!
Belated Happy Birthday!!!
am 2. Mai 2023, 19:59 Uhr von Agent
Fantastic puzzle! Loved how the different variants interacted with U-Bahn, the solution path is very rich.
am 29. April 2023, 18:35 Uhr von ibag
A really absolutely brilliant work! Many thanks for this and of course congratulations belatedly to wooferzfg!
am 24. April 2023, 14:55 Uhr von polar
@Statistica:
The Masyu only has to exist within the subway, so a white dot can be a straight segment, branch or intersection and a black dot can be a turn, branch or intersection. There's an example image on Zzzyxas' puzzle below if that helps.
am 24. April 2023, 14:40 Uhr von Statistica
Just to be clear: the Masyu-Loop is part of the subway, but on the Masyu clues are only turns (black dot) and straight segments (white dots) of the subway?
am 24. April 2023, 07:26 Uhr von wooferzfg
Thank you so much! That was challenging throughout and a ton of fun. This is yet another reminder for me of how awesome U-Bahn is :)
am 23. April 2023, 18:41 Uhr von Myxo
One of my favourite puzzles on the portal. So much mindblowing logic!
am 23. April 2023, 16:32 Uhr von Jesper
Excellent puzzle! So much variety in the logic.
am 23. April 2023, 02:01 Uhr von Zzzyxas
Perfect!
am 22. April 2023, 20:34 Uhr von udukos
Happy birthday KNT and wooferzfg! :)
am 22. April 2023, 19:45 Uhr von KNT
Solution code description edited.
am 22. April 2023, 19:26 Uhr von polar
Masyu example (in case anyone needs it): https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/Raetsel/zeigen.php?id=00026N
am 22. April 2023, 19:24 Uhr von polar
Superb puzzle! The subtleties of the clues and the intricacy weaved throughout was totally top notch. As always, nothing was unfair, but the difficulty stayed consistent up until the end.
Happy birthday to yourself and wooferzfg :)
