9 TH 24 HOURS PUZZLE CHAMPIONSHIP

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1 NME: POINTS: 9 TH 24 HOURS PUZZLE CHMPIONSHIP JUNE 2008 HOTEL ENT UDPEST PUZZLES Y: LÁSZLÓ MÉRŐ C Connection * 60 points ( ) Division 40 points (15+25) Jumping Crosswords 100 points Not Four in a Row 80 points (15+65) Increasing Distances 30 points The Squares etween Two Circles 85 points (20+65) Maxi Snake 115 points (25+90) X-Scrabble 45 points Number Crosswords 75 points (30+45) CC 70 points (15+55) Paint it black 55 points Crack it On * 60 points ( ) Hexa Islands 90 points ( ) Pentomino Fences 95 points Total 1000 points cknowledgements are due to Károly Kresz, whose programs were used for these puzzles

2 C CONNECTION ( POINTS) Connect the identical letters with lines that consist of only horizontal and vertical fragments that connect the centres of adjacent unit squares. C D E F G C F E D G 20 POINTS C D C D E D C E 15 POINTS C 25 POINTS D DIVISION (15+25 POINTS) Divide the squares into 4 areas of identical shapes and sizes so that in each area be one letter and one letter. 15 POINTS 25 POINTS

3 JUMPING CROSSWORDS (100 POINTS) Place the listed words into the grid. The words may jump over some squares, even the first or the last ones, but never more than just one for one jump. The jumped squares, are also jumped by the word coming across. The jumpings are not indicated in the listed words. 10 POINTS 20 POINTS 15: STON VILL, DECTHLON, DESMOULINS, ET CETER, HMMERFEST, LETHRGI, MUN NO, OLDSMOILE, RSKOLNIKOV, REMRNDT SPIENTI ST 10: KIRLY, KOESTLER, LMD, NVRR 9: DREISER, LUTHER 8: RNOLD, HORTIO, SCHEIN, TERR 7: FODOR, INRI, LIRE, RIES, SCCO, SENT 6: RE, COLT, IRON, NNO, VSO 5: LSO, ELE, HIRE, IDG, N, ONE 4: STI, C, ISR, LENS, M, MU, ONO, ORLY, ORR, TRES 3: SH, DL, OE, TV 2: M, IC, PS, R, VE

4 NOT FOUR IN ROW (15+65 POINTS) Fill in the grids with O s and X s so that the grid contain neither four connected X's nor four O's connected in any row, column or diagonal. EXMPLE: O X X O X X X O X OXOOX O O O X O O X X X X O X X X X O X X X X X O O X O O O X X 15 POINTS 65 POINTS X X O O X O O O X X X X O X O O O INCRESING DISTNCES (30 POINTS) Write the numbers 1 to 15, one next to each dot, so that the distance between 1 and 2 be smaller than the distance between 2 and 3, and so on. EXMPLE:

5 THE SQURES ETWEEN TWO CIRCLES (20+65 POINTS) Draw a single closed loop that passes through each square exactly once and never crosses or overlaps itself. The path travels horizontally and vertically, but never diagonally. When a number is passed, it must indicate the number of the squares of the loop between the two circles before and after it, respectively. EXMPLE: O O O O O 3 O 3 4 O 4 O o 4 o 44 o 2 o 9 10 o 4 o 7 o o o o 8 o o o o o POINTS 65 POINTS

6 MXI SNKE (25+90 POINTS) 49 square long snake (97 in the second puzzle) is hiding in the grid. Its head and tail are given. The body of the snake cannot touch itself, not even diagonally. The black fields remain empty POINTS POINTS 97

7 X-SCRLE (45 POINTS) Place all the listed words in the grid. Every row and every column should contain exactly one letter X. The numbers next to the rows and columns indicate the number of letters in that row or column NOREXI X COTOPXI EXIT LINUX MXIM MXIM MONOXINE REX TXI TEXS UNISEX XNDU XEN NUMER CROSSWORDS (30+45 POINTS) The solution of every line is a multiple of the definition (a number is a multiple of itself, too). There are no zeros in the solutions HORIZ. VERT POINTS HORIZ. VERT POINTS

8 CC (15+55 POINTS) C Draw a line starting from the upper left, ending at the lower right C, consisting of only horizontal and vertical segments, mot intersecting itself, passing through all squares, so that the letters along the line follow each other in the order --C-- C C C C C C 15 POINTS C C C C 55 POINTS PINT IT LCK (55 POINTS) standard Paint It lack puzzle

9 CRCK IT ON ( POINTS) Put all the given Italian words into one of the three grids in a way that each area should contain exactly one letter and the words are to be read in every row and column using each area in that row or column once. EXMPLE (WITH LTIN WORDS): N O D O I L S E V S I S LES NODO LIO OIEI SI OLE DIES OSS NV VEIS 20 POINTS 20 POINTS 20 POINTS CORO DIRE EREO IT IONE RGON SPIC ND ETEL DRGO EDER EIDER ERGON ERMEO ESME LICO LEONE NEGRO ONORE OSRE PMIR PTER PICEO PIEDE RION RITTO SCIT TLE TSTO TIGRI TOPP TOTEM TRGO TRIS TURPE URICO

10 HEX ISLNDS ( POINTS) Paint a few more hexagons black so that there be six white areas, each consisting of six adjacent hexagons. The white areas must not touch each other. 15 POINTS 20 POINTS 25 POINTS 30 POINTS

11 PENTOMINO FENCES (95 POINTS) Place the 12 pentominoes in a fences-mode. The pentominoes must not touch each other, not even diagonally. The pentominoes can be rotated but not reflected