Japanese crossword «Little dog»
| Size: 10x10 | Picture: | Difficulty: | Added: | 29.11.19 | Author: Yvan |
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Well done! And nicely tricky for this size.
replyGreat image! I'm so annoyed with myself--I actually guessed once! (Gasp! Horror!)
replyBrilliant puzzle! So small, yet challenging and with a very rewarding picture at the end.
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Very challenging. But possible to do without hint or guess. Send me a screenshot if you want help :)
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f4444..wooow... ok I don't understand, how come picture rating has more stars than difficulty rating? this is by far the hardest 10x10 I have ever solved in my life. picture is..ok..i guess. the best that 10x10 can do for this dificulty but i am not as impressed with picture as i was with trickines. at all time there was only "ONE" correct solution and even that took me a real sweat to find and i was even mistakin few times cause of inability to see the numbers no more. kudos for this.
reply3:06, saw the clues were difficult and rating was hard.
No hints no mistakes, just made sure I first noted which rows could even give me one square and mark all the xs diligently.
not sure if that was intentional or just happened with the minimalism
replyNo hints no mistakes, just made sure I first noted which rows could even give me one square and mark all the xs diligently.
not sure if that was intentional or just happened with the minimalism
it was a bit tricky.. but I was solved it without any hints! proud of myself :P
the picture is great for such a size! thanks for entertaining us
replythe picture is great for such a size! thanks for entertaining us
done without hints/guesses for those that want to try. absolutely amazing to have this level of difficulty in such a small grid. thank you!
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As with all puzzles on this site, it can be solved without guessing. I will do my best to describe a strategy I find helpful sometimes, though this is certainly the smallest puzzle I have ever had to use it on!
Once I have gotten to a point I am stuck, I look at numbers on the very edges of the puzzle. In this case there is a 4 on the top row. I look at where it will cause problems with numbers further down, beginning all the way on the left side (can also start at the right but need to start on an edge). In this case, if we place the 4 pixels all the way to the left on the top, we have to go down 3 on column 1, 5 on column 2, and 3 in both columns 3 and 4. In the second row, we need 3 pixels, then a gap. But if we have placed the 4 pixels here in the top row, going down we would have at least 4 pixels together in the second row, which is not possible. This means coordinate 1,1 must be blank to avoid this, so I put an X. (continued next)
Once I have gotten to a point I am stuck, I look at numbers on the very edges of the puzzle. In this case there is a 4 on the top row. I look at where it will cause problems with numbers further down, beginning all the way on the left side (can also start at the right but need to start on an edge). In this case, if we place the 4 pixels all the way to the left on the top, we have to go down 3 on column 1, 5 on column 2, and 3 in both columns 3 and 4. In the second row, we need 3 pixels, then a gap. But if we have placed the 4 pixels here in the top row, going down we would have at least 4 pixels together in the second row, which is not possible. This means coordinate 1,1 must be blank to avoid this, so I put an X. (continued next)
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(continued from above) I then move it over to the next box and repeat the process of continuing the lines down from the top. We run into the same problem of all 4 lines continuing down and making it so that the next row would have 4 pixels together, which it can’t have. So 1,2 is also blank, gets an X. Keep going on until you get to a point where theoretically, the lines that continue down based on this do not create a section too large in the next rows down. In this case this also included 1,3 and 1,4. Once you get to this point, there could be 3 pixels and a blank space at the beginning of row 2, or a blank can come up in 2,7. This is also enough in this puzzle to start working from the right and finding a couple pixels in the top row. In this puzzle, I was able to work things out pretty quickly after doing this strategy just once, but you can also employ it on the bottom or far side rows/columns starting from a corner.
Hopefully this makes sense, it is a little hard to describe in just text.
Hopefully this makes sense, it is a little hard to describe in just text.
At first I thought "oh it's not that bad, it should be fine". But then I got stuck for ten minutes or so, until I finally found a way to carry on!
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