Puzzle #628: Area 51
Posted October 7, 2011 • #slitherlink #shotgun #thinkthree #corral #areafiftyone
Make a fence around this puzzle using the variety of clue types given!
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Comments
PuzzleScot • 10/20/11 3:33 am
Cool! It took a little while to deduce the double-white circles behaved the same way as the single white circles, and to tell my brain to treat the corral clues NOT as slither clues. Excellent work.
David Millar • 10/20/11 5:19 am
Thanks for the comments! PuzzleScot, you're not the only one who didn't realize double-circles behaved that way. Next time I include such a meta-puzzle I'll be more clear in the instructions. I'm glad that you and Deb enjoyed the puzzle nonetheless.
Joshua Zucker • 11/05/11 12:46 pm
I had the same double-white issue.
I also made a solving error and reached a contradiction. Just when I thought I was about to finish up. Time to start over and see what I did wrong...
joshuazucker • 11/07/11 10:49 pm
Finally got it! Really fun. I liked the Corral clues best, though maybe what made them so interesting was the way they interacted with the slitherlink.
David Millar • 11/08/11 1:13 pm
Glad you enjoyed it too Joshua! I have a word search variant and sudoku variant in the works for the next few days, then will be out of town for an extended weekend trip, but will consider doing another Area 51 when I come back. (Or in the car on the way!)
poony • 06/27/19 6:51 pm
Can anyone explain the badge puzzle more explicitly?
David Millar • 07/22/19 10:00 am
Hey poony, sorry for the late reply. The double-circled nodes moving left to right should each be marked with an M&M candy. The first one should be aligned normally, so the candy should show the letter m. The next candy should be rotated depending on the line through the node; so if the first node has a left-right line and the second node has a left-right line, turn the candy 180 degrees to make w. If the first node is left-right and the second is up-down, rotate 90 degrees to make the number 3. Continue doing this for all of the double-ringed nodes and you should end up with two codes made of the characters m, w, E, and 3.
debmohanty • 10/12/11 9:23 pm
Nice one David.