Dr. Sudoku Prescribes #73 – TomTom
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Theme: Tetrominoes
Rules: Standard TomTom rules.
Answer String: Enter the 1st row from left to right, followed by a comma, followed by the 2nd row from left to right.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:45, Master = 2:45, Expert = 5:30
Solution: PDF
My time sucked, because I immediately said “Okay, 21 = 6+6+5+5” and then five minutes later couldn’t figure out why I kept getting a contradiction.
How did you even come up with that. Arithmetic aside, a 6+6+5+5 will guarantee a non-unique solution.
Because I can’t add, clearly.
Actually, it was probably a combination of “I can’t add” and “I know what kind of logical deduction he wants me to make here, so I’m not even going to check if I’m right.”
5’5″
Nice easy one.
Yes nice and easy if you start from the right clues, which I clearly did not do… My gut feeling said : let’s ignore that “1” clue on the right for a while because that must have way to many options to start from, silly me 🙂
That ‘1’ ,along with the ’24’ was one of the two places you should be looking for as soon as you see the puzzle.Sometimes adding the prospective sums helps determine which regions are definitely sums/products.But this puzzle did not require doing it.
Of course I should have started with the 1 and the 24, don’t know why I didn’t…
9:24