Showing posts with label Design contests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design contests. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Design contest 2


Fillomino rules: Divide the grid into polyominos ,and write a number in every cell,such that every number in the grid is contained in a polyomino of that area.Polyominos of the same size cannot touch through edges.A polyomino can contain one,more than one,or none of the given numbers.

You are asked to create a fillomino which :
1. has a unique solution,
2. contains clues only in the grey cells(see the layout below).All grey cells will have clues.

Your objective is to minimize the sum of all clues.

If you are entering the contest,and if two or more puzzles tie on the score,you agree that I will pick the best puzzle based on how much i liked the puzzle, not based on how early it was submitted.
Labelled(i mean the clues added up)entries should be sent to anuragthefirst@gmail.com until the 2nd of September.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Design Contest 1 : Result


I think the difficulty of this contest was enough to prevent participation. I have 6 entries,displayed in the image below. All of these were very pleasing solves,the winning entry in particular. The names are written exactly as they called themselves in the mail.


Two of them,Bram and Muhorka, used 14 circles.Bram wins, as his submission was earlier.

Monday, June 25, 2012

Puzzle construction contest


Interested viewers and puzzle authors can try their hand on a masyu challenge. Every entry should contain a masyu puzzle on a 10x10 grid. The solution should obey the following rules:

Draw a single closed loop passing through adjacent squares,moving only horizontally or vertically.The loop cannot visit a square more than once.At every white circle, the loop must go straight through,and it must turn on either or both of the squares visited right before and right after the white circle. At every black circle,the loop must turn, and go straight through both of the two squares visited right before and right after.
A valid entry should have a unique solution which will be forced to visit all 100 cells of the grid. The entry which uses the least number of circles,will be the winner.If there is a tie, the earliest submission will be considered. Entries shall be recieved on anuragthefirst@gmail.com , until the 10th of July.