Rules:Place all the ships of a standard fleet.Shipe cannot touch each other in any way,and should be placed in white cells only.Clue cells contain standard tapa clues.Cells containing ship segments cannot be blackened.A tapa clue cannot be a ship clue at the same time.
I don't know whether your rules are clear or accurate. One sentence says that the clues are all standard Tapa clues, without suggesting other possibilities.
ReplyDeleteOK, the last sentence suggests the existence of "ship clues" other than segments, but those are never defined. And the clues are clearly at least one type besides Tapa, since the 3 at R6C2 would be inconsistent with the 1 at R4C2 if both were Tapa. So the rules, I'm sorry to say, need to be rewritten more accurately.
a "ship clue" is synonymous to a minesweeper clue.The clue indicates the number of ship segments around the cell.
ReplyDeleteOkay. But the "standard fleet" should be pictured or described. And even if it's what I'm familiar with-- one 4-cell battleship, two 3-cell cruisers, three 2-cell destroyers, and four 1-cell submarines-- then I see extra solutions.
ReplyDeleteLet's see if I can draw a picture. The "pre" tags won't work, so the following diagrams (first the ships, then the incomplete wall) should be viewed in a fixed-width font.
.S...S.DD
.........
DD..S...D
........D
C..B.C...
C..B.C...
C..B.C.S.
...B.....
.........
...?..?..
..WW.WW..
...W.W...
..WWWWW..
......WWW
......W.W
........W
W.W..W..W
WWWWWWWWW
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ReplyDeleteCorrect.And it allows you to place those two wall segments you represented using '?'.After this edit,it is unique,but the solution slightly changes.
ReplyDeleteSad to say, that tweak still leaves two solutions. Here's what I have in the top row:
ReplyDelete.S.S.?DD.
Incidentally, symmetry or lack thereof is easier to see with the ship segments than the tiny digits. I mean, of course, that it's easy to miss the digits' symmetrical placement because there are big green things in the grid. Just letting you know.
Breaking the symmetry is too big a compromise,without which ,this additional wall segment cant be eliminated.
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