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Slalom für Anfänger (1) - Ausfüllen

(Published on 11. September 2011, 23:09 by Micha)

The rules of slalom are:

Draw a diagonal line in each square of the grid. Numbers at some intersections show how many diagonals meet at that point. The diagonal lines must never form a closed loop.

When a wall ends in one circled number, we write for convenience "The cell belongs to the number".

I call the first technique of this introduction fill-out. Consider the second sentence of the rules: the numbers. In two cases the cells around a number can directly be filled:

1. The number of cells that belong to a number is already equal to the number. In that case all other cells do not belong to this number. In the example below, this is the case for the numbers in the bottom row and the zero in the top right corner.

2. The number of cells that do not belong to a number is so high that all of the other cells belong to this number. This is the case forhe numbers in the middle row and the 1 and the 2 in the top row.

Of course, there are a coulpe more situations, where this technique can be used.

Next consider the third sentence of the rules: closed loops. In the following two cases it is easy to see that the given conclusions can be drawn.

The following puzzle can be solved only using the above mentioned techniques

Solution code: The marked column followed by the marked row. For each node write the number of diagonals that meet at that node (all together 2 times 11 numbers).


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on 9. December 2023, 21:04 by thegarbageman25
I don't understand how to enter the solution code. Can someone help?

on 23. January 2020, 21:04 by Dandelo
And hidden comment means hidden from those, who haven't solved it yet. All solvers of the puzzle can read it and discuss the solution.

on 23. January 2020, 16:40 by CHalb
@Dean: You have the list of your solved puzzles on your User Pages here in the portal. And in each puzzle there is a link to a full list of solvers. So your achievement is logged :-).

on 23. January 2020, 15:47 by uvo
@Dean Hickerson: Please stop spamming these comments.

on 13. January 2020, 03:23 by Tahg
Guess I'm more used to entering row first. Took a while to figure out I just swapped the two sets and I didn't actually solve the puzzle incorrectly.

on 12. September 2011, 09:23 by berni
cool. Endlich mal wieder was für die Anfängerserie. Hab's eingetragen.

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