Octopus
(Published on 15. November 2012, 10:28 by zorant)
While preparing myself for the WPC in Croatia, I created this
puzzle. I hope you would like it.
Rules:
Place in the grid below eight snakes, each of length 21. The snakes
may not touch neither themselves nor each other, not even diagonally.
The heads (1) and tails (21) of all the snakes are already given. The
numbers outside the grid show how many squares are occupied by the
snakes in the corresponding row or column, heads and tails included.
The snakes may not occupy black squares.
Solution code: row 14, column 15; use S for snake, X for blank square.
Comments
on 7. January 2022, 14:55 by Dugong
For anyone wondering: The inner dark square-shaped line has no meaning (e.g. the "1" fields count towards the numbers outside the grid.)
on 21. November 2012, 09:54 by r45
Nice construction, well done. Thanks to Serbia.
on 18. November 2012, 15:12 by Rollo
Leicht fiel mir das nicht.
on 15. November 2012, 14:45 by Statistica
Nice one! It reminds me of one of my first Monatsrätsel (http://www.logic-masters.de/Monatsraetsel/mr_archiv.php?name=2009-02-00)
