Vladimir Burik has reclaimed the Puzzlerium Optimization Championship as he registered a third win. Coming off a setback in the last edition, the Ukrainian came very close to a clean sweep, losing out on just one puzzle as the last edition's champion Gerhard Richter produced what is possibly the optimal construction of the "Pentomino Fortress". Vladimir impressed with a 39-pointer (is this optimal?) construction of the "Interior illumination" puzzle.
Detailed results can be found in this spreadsheet. Best solutions follow. A better construction is possible on "Six ways" (326 points, displayed at the end of the post).
"Interior Illumination" and "Skyscrapers (Exclusive)" were found to be the most liked puzzles.
Neighbors
Pento Fences
Interior Illumination
Skyscrapers (Exclusive)
Cross-sums
Vladimir
Congratulations Vladimir. Thanks for all of your efoorts and all of nice optimization tasks Anuraag..
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