Star Battle by Murat Can Tonta
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Theme: Easy as LITS
Author/Opus: This is the 132nd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Murat Can Tonta.
Rules: Standard Star Battle rules. Two stars per row, column, and region.
Answer String: For each row from top to bottom, enter the number of the first column from the left where a star appears. Enter these numbers as a single string with no separators.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:00, Master = 1:20, Expert = 2:40
Solution: PDF
Note: Follow this link for other classic Star Battles. If you are new to this puzzle type, here are our easiest Star Battles to get started on. More Star Battle puzzles can be found in The Art of Puzzles and in our beginner-friendly collection Intro to GMPuzzles by Serkan Yürekli.
Funnily enough, I accidentally tried solving this as a LITS at first, thinking you were doing another “hidden double puzzles” week. Unfortunately, as a LITS, this one has multiple solutions…
There was a testsolving comment about this too. 🙂 I did consider constructing it such, in fact I probably will at some point, double puzzles are fun! Here I just utilized tetromino regions because I wanted an easy Star Battle.
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