Dr. Sudoku Prescribes #114 – Battleships
or solve online (using our beta test of Penpa-Edit tools; use tab to alternate between ship placement and shading modes. In ship placement mode, right click gives sea, left click gives circle/square, left click and drag for rounded ships.)
Theme: Rise and Fall
Rules: Standard Battleships rules. Use the indicated fleet.
Answer String: For each row from top to bottom, enter the number of the first column from the left where a ship segment appears. If the row is empty, enter 0. Enter these numbers as a single string with no separators.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:45, Master = 3:00, Expert = 6:00
Solution: PDF
Cute trick in the [gbc 3 ebjf naq pbxhza 6], but then it falls like a level one puzzle. Wonder if solvable without that step? Will go back and try it. Fun design. Thanks.
TheSubro
05:28. I should count properly; took me about 2 minutes to restarting and figuring out where my fault was (counted number of ship segments in column 10 incorrectly; yes, that’s counting 1 ship segment).
Wonderful puzzle. It begins with a counting for the empty sums, followed by finding the largest ships (plural, not singular). Two techniques that are pretty advanced I’d say. Packed in a single puzzle.
Hmm, I’ve mixed too many variations if for some reason I find myself thinking “the sees cannot form a 2×2 square”… LOL !
Oh, that’s not as bad as “the sea must be tiled with L, I, T, and S tetrominoes, no two of which are alike if touching.”
9:13 s .It was all about placing the bigger one correctly and then there was a very logical flow to the puzzle.