Rules:Paint some cells black to create a continuous wall.Number/s in a cell indicate the length of black cell blocks on its neighbouring cells.If there is more than one number in a cell,there must be atleast one white cell between the black cell blocks.Painted cells cannot form a 2x2 square or larger.There are no wall segments on cells containing numbers.
Two unshaded cells cannot be at one move of the chess knight ,from each other.Clue cells are not considered as unshaded.
Nice variation. I think much progress can be made with limited number of clues.
ReplyDeleteI think so too. More work will reveal more about this variation.Lets see.
ReplyDeleteThe constraint is really heavy. You really can't have too few clues as the rule doesn't allow you to. Try placing 2 empty cells next to eachother in an empty grid and see the chain reaction happening. Very little clue cells will just force you to avoid 2 adjacent empty cells, which is a bit limiting.
ReplyDelete2 adjacent empty cells would not be there in any of these i think,be it fewer, or many clues.How many clues are we talking about? As low as 10 clues is definitely possible.Also,i think the point raised by serkan wasnt about a whole puzzle with fewer clues.Rather, it was about making progress locally with fewer clues than usual.
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