Puzzle #801: 2014 Advent Day 25
Posted December 25, 2014 • #advent2014 #areafiftyone #slitherlink #corral #masyu
Merry Christmas! As you complete your Advent Calendars today, please enjoy one last set of Area 51 variants with it!
Comments
reesylou • 12/25/14 2:27 pm
Glad I am not the only one to think that
David Millar • 12/25/14 3:01 pm
Oops - sorry about that! The left-most 3 in the 25th piece should actually be a cactus. Hopefully that clears things up. I'm posting a fixed version now.
neilrickards • 12/25/14 3:35 pm
Perfect. Had me worried there for a moment. Thanks very much!
rmsgrey • 12/26/14 3:24 pm
Somehow, I managed to miss that (having noticed it while copying the clues across) - probably because, having grabbed 23, 24 and 25 at the same time, I was distracted by the contradictions with what I'd confidently filled in for day 6 and rubbing out stretches of it for the second time...
By the time I reduced that region to something internally consistent, I'd completely forgotten about the anomaly in a region I'd already filled in from a combination of 10, 2 and 15...
The last thing I filled in was the top-left of day 8, having failed to copy across the hollow circle there from my first attempt (abandoned during my first attempt to reconstruct 6 and the top of 13 after a false deduction).
Thanks, David, for another entertaining advent puzzle
dreamer234 • 12/26/14 6:29 pm
Thanks for the puzzles, Dave! Went well though I pondered quite a bit to get the last of the puzzle in place in those top blocks. But I did it and didn't have to redo like I did last year.
Leave Your Comment
Don't Miss New Puzzles!
Info for Teachers
Want to use my puzzles in your class? Feel free to do so! I only ask a few things in return:
- If you want me to hold back the solution for any puzzle that you plan to use, please let me know ahead of time. Otherwise I may honor requests for solutions and accidentally help some students cheat.
- If you would like a copy of a puzzle without my blog header and contact info, please contact me and I'll do my best to provide a PDF that meets your needs.
- If you would like more puzzles of a particular type, easier or harder puzzles of a type, or some other custom request for puzzles, worksheets, or other materials, please contact me. I'm happy to help for free as time permits.
neilrickards • 12/25/14 1:48 pm
Merry Christmas, and thank you for the advent puzzle which I look forward to every year!
I'm puzzled by the following - the pair of 3s in the lower right of day 10 and the 3 in the bottom left of day 25 seem inconsistent