krfreeman Best completion time: 13:01Time on first attempt: 16:45Used 'show wrong moves'
help please
Posted 11th Jun 2024 at 09:31
krfreeman Best completion time: 13:01Time on first attempt: 16:45Used 'show wrong moves'
cant see this one.whats the secret.
Posted 13th Jun 2024 at 13:27 Last edited by gareth 13th Jun 2024 at 13:28
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has started but not yet finished this puzzle
First up, make sure you're marking in both shaded and unshaded squares - you'll never solve them without doing both. Beyond that, all the Hanjie on puzzlemix only require you to consider each row or column in isolation. In other words, you'll never need to cross-reference between rows and columns when making a single-square deduction. So all you ever need to do is consider each row or column one by one and work out where the shaded areas could go.
The easiest way to do this, when stuck, is to pick a likely row or column, pick a different colour so you can erase your working, then run across it from one end drawing in all the runs (that fit with anything you've already deduced) as compactly as possible, i.e. with just one empty square (or whatever is needed by existing placements) between successive runs. Then do the same from the opposite end, this time just in your head. Anywhere the exact same clue overlaps with itself coming the other way (not just the same number, but the same 'nth' clue in the list for that row/column), you can confidently mark in a shaded square in black (or your solving colour) for those overlapping squares. Then erase all of the other colour.
That's all the logic you'll ever need for a puzzlemix hanjie. That isn't true of hanjie elsewhere, but it's true here.
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Last edited by gareth 13th Jun 2024 at 13:28
The easiest way to do this, when stuck, is to pick a likely row or column, pick a different colour so you can erase your working, then run across it from one end drawing in all the runs (that fit with anything you've already deduced) as compactly as possible, i.e. with just one empty square (or whatever is needed by existing placements) between successive runs. Then do the same from the opposite end, this time just in your head. Anywhere the exact same clue overlaps with itself coming the other way (not just the same number, but the same 'nth' clue in the list for that row/column), you can confidently mark in a shaded square in black (or your solving colour) for those overlapping squares. Then erase all of the other colour.
That's all the logic you'll ever need for a puzzlemix hanjie. That isn't true of hanjie elsewhere, but it's true here.
I hope this helps!
Gareth, puzzlemix
You can however view other players' statistics and their comments in the tables above.