USPC 2006 answers

[jdyer]

Answers are posted.

http://wpc.puzzles.com/g6/summary.htm

No surprise on who the puzzle designers are.

Atomic Fusion answer is "holy cow". I'd really like to see more examples of this one.

Comments

[xnera]

"Holy Cow" is right! O_O

Um, the first Sudoku problem is totally different than what I had on the test. At first I thought I got it wrong, wrong, wrong, but I had double-checked it before submitting so I was certain it was right. I then noticed that it's a completely different puzzle. Weird.

I am now paranoid that I entered a "d" instead of a "P" for the third line of the word search. My writing looks halfway between a D and a P. Meh.

I screwed up Hex House. Dammit. One of my lines didn't go as far as possible. So that's one wrong. And yeah, I missed something in the instructions for Closing the Loop. Note to self: next year, read the instructions THREE TIMES before starting the problem. -.-

This means I am now less confident that I beat last year's score. Oh well--I had fun, which is all that matters. :)

[motris]

The sudoku picture that is being shown is a 90 degree rotation of the actual puzzle. As shown, the 4th and 3rd columns are the 3rd and 4th rows you entered.

That atomic fusion solution is impressive(ly scary). I'll get to retrying it in a bit.

[xnera]

Ah, thanks. I did think it was probably rotated, but it didn't jump out to me how exactly it was rotated at first.