From the Foxger’s Den #50: Cross the Streams
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Theme: Threes Frame; an extra large Cross the Streams puzzle by its inventor, Grant Fikes, marking his 50th post here.
Rules: Standard Cross the Streams rules.
Answer String: Enter the length in cells of each of the black segments from top to bottom for the marked columns, going in order from A to B to C to D and separating each entry with a comma.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 8:00, Master = 14:00, Expert = 28:00
Solution: PDF
12:27. Got a few seconds because I didn’t realize 1112 fits *1?2.
Nice puzzle. Pushing my distaste of giant puzzles aside (and for the fact that this is not really giant with only double the number of cells), I can find a purely logical solution. Similar like the giant Fillomino, it’s mostly composed of small steps together, but it’s more fun here because a clue stretches over the entire grid (as opposed to Fillomino that only affects the area around it). Also, there are some certainly nontrivial tricks there. Well done.
For those of us who are stuck halfway through the puzzle, here’s a small hint in ROT13: pbafvqre pyhrf gung raq va gjb-fgne, jubfr ynfg pryy vf n svyyrq-va pryy.
I’m stuck but I have no clue how to decode your clue…
Is it a common knowledge?
http://www.rot13.com/
ROT13 is a form of Caesar shift, a cipher in which every letter of the alphabet is shifted the same number of places forwards or backwards (13 in this case). When spoilers need to be hidden, ROT13 is a popular method because ROT13 is its own inverse.
Thanks dude!
🙂