Comments on: Samurai Star

By: Gareth Moore

Gareth Moore — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:03:50 +0000

One thing I’ve been meaning to work out is whether it’s actually necessary to state that there is a centre grid, or whether it just falls out of having 4 grids around the outside already. If so, it will simplify the puzzle description and leave something more for the solver to discover as they go.

I could easily see if this is likely to be true by building lots of test puzzles, but I think a more reasoned approach would be better.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:12:56 +0000

The no pencil mark challenge was great. I managed to solve this one without them as well, though in a little more time.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:33:15 +0000

A great puzzle made more enjoyable by the fact that I took you up on your challenge and managed to complete it without pencil marks!

By: Spittledung

Spittledung — Sat, 23 May 2009 09:41:57 +0000

That was fun. I am enjoying the samurai flower pattern.

One rule I have found with this pattern is that for the long rows/columns, Any triplet set of digits within a box must match the box that is 3 distant (in any order).

I guess you could call this the Samurai Flower Rule if you wanted to. Thinking along these lines, you can apply this to other overlapping samurai patterns (with heavy modification of course). I was using this a great deal for the earlier skyscraper samurai puzzles.