Fillomino by Grant Fikes
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Theme: Spirit of ’76
Author/Opus: This is the 168th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Grant Fikes.
Rules: Standard Fillomino rules.
Answer String: For each cell in the marked rows/columns, enter the area of the polyomino it belongs to. Enter just the last digit for any two-digit number. Start with the 6th row, followed by a comma, followed by the 29th row.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 13:30, Master = 20:00, Expert = 40:00
Solution: PDF
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This is one puzzle type where Paint is _not_ your friend…
I always do these in MS Paint, and Thomas takes the time to make the dotted lines secretly solid for flood fill purposes. Worked fine for me …
Maybe I just need some advice on notation. How do you use flood-fill on a fillomino: just to mark completed -ominos, or do you color-code them based on the numbers? I’m already using two separate pen colors (one to mark connections within an -omino, one to mark known borders); I can’t imagine adding even more colors without some keyboard shortcuts or macros.
I’m just filling in colors (shading the whole square) based on the numbers. There was somebody else who described this and it turned out they used almost exactly the same colors as me, which is interesting. Anyway, I just color 1 squares red, 2’s yellow, 3’s orange, 4’s purple etc. It’s not super fast since you can’t just left/right click and have to grab the color you want, so I’d use pencil and paper for a speed situation. If I have an indeterminate sized polyomino forming, I’ll just pick some neutral color temporarily.
I use the same, 2 pen colours, one to mark internal connections, one to mark the borders. I solve in GIMP using the pencil tool, after aligning the puzzle to an invisible grid.
-Neelix
We have no idea how to solve this… Sounds very hard! Good luck to all who try it seriously 🙂
If there were any luck involved I’d probably lose interest. Luckily for me it’s logic all the way. 😉
-Neelix
65:38.Excellent puzzle.
Is there something special about 1776? Really fun puzzle, i love grant’s fillominos 🙂
Oh, never mind. The moment i posted my comment i understood the meaning of the date…