Wichtel 2014 (8): Verflixte Knallfrösche
(Published on 15. March 2015, 14:02 by wichtel)
To Christmas 2014 some eager puzzlefriends have again arranged a group in which everybody had to make anonymously a puzzle for someone else. These puzzles are now presented one after the other here in the portal.
Crazy firecrackers
In Puzzletown (already mentioned in the puzzle
00023R) fire crackers have settled. In each row and column of the houses exactly one of these troublemakers is now sitting. They do not touch each other, not even diagonally.
Making his visiting tour Santa Claus notices that from each house in Puzzletown he can see at least one of these nasty companions. He can't see undisturbed from each house in all directions since the inhabitants have decorated their houses quite Christmasy. (These obstacles are shown by the thick cell edges in the diagram. The numbers are hints for the loop in the second part of the puzzle.)
But nevertheless Santa Claus is able to find out the place of each fire cracker. Of course he wants to dispose them.
So he starts his loop on the lines between the houses, coming to each house at least once (so in each cell at least one edge is used by the loop). In order to get really rid of the nu crackers he has to use three edges around each cracker (so cells with fire crackers have the hint number 3). The given thick lines are part of the loop.
This search for fire crackers is based on the puzzletype Igel, invented by Hausigel (Roland Voigt).
Solution code: For each row (top to bottom) the column position of the crackers and the sizes of the areas outside the loop, clockwise starting top left.
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Solved by Zzzyxas, ibag, rob, moss, ch1983, Joe Average, tuace, pokerke, r45, RALehrer, matter, CHalb, Babsi, Krokofant, cornuto, rimodech, zorant, pin7guin, AnnaTh, Alex, zuzanina, Mody, Luigi, Statistica, Thomster, Katrin K, pirx, lupo, mango, sandmoppe, sf2l, derwolf23, Toastbrot, dm_litv, saskia-daniela, ffricke, flaemmchen, ManuH, Matt, Gotroch, ildiko, NinaS, AndreasS, Myxo, en-passant
Comments
on 18. March 2015, 11:56 by Statistica
Jetzt muss der Weihnachtsmann schon zweimal im Jahr nach Rätselhausen :-)...
Hat mir gut gefallen!
on 17. March 2015, 17:29 by sandmoppe
@tuace: Danke, Jetzt habe ich es auch gesehen.
on 17. March 2015, 17:06 by tuace
@sandmoppe: Das ist genau der Fehler, den ich auch zuerst gemacht habe. Deine Knallfrösche sitzen richtig, aber wenn du mal genau schaust, wirst du oben links ein Feld ohne Kante finden ;)
on 17. March 2015, 07:48 by AnnaTh
Toll!
on 16. March 2015, 15:31 by Krokofant
Ui, das Rätsel ist nett :-)
on 15. March 2015, 15:38 by rob
Tatsächlich, so geht's, danke! Dass die Kanten zugleich Weg als auch Deko sind hat mich dann doch etwas verwirrt.
on 15. March 2015, 15:14 by ibag
Lässt sich wunderbar lösen, wenn man nur an alle Regeln denkt. ;-) Schöner Wichtel!
on 15. March 2015, 15:13 by ibag
@rob: Letzteres ist der Fall.
on 15. March 2015, 15:09 by rob
Hier fehlt mir irgendwie was bei den Regeln. Sind Häuser und Knallfrösche nur innerhalb des Rundwegs? Oder blockieren nur die vorgegebenen Kanten die Sicht, nicht aber die weiteren Rundwegkanten?