Friday Puzzle #178 - 24hour Star Battle

[motris]

Another of my puzzles from the Team USA 24h Puzzle Championship Round from a couple weeks ago. This one is my quintessential WPC style: Star Battle. This puzzle was also given a score of 20 points, on the easy-medium side as these puzzles go.

Rules:
Place stars into some cells in the grid so that each row, column, and region contains exactly two

Comments

Nudge nudge

[ext_1641213]

Hello !

I've pass all your other star battles, but I can't manage to start this one, can you give me a little nudge for the first technique ?

Thanks anyway for these great puzzles.

Re: Nudge nudge

[motris]

Try to focus on the top "4" shape, particularly on which cells cannot contain stars. Once you mark off 5 impossible cells (some of the eliminations are a little non-standard based on nearby regions), you can place the two stars in this 4 and that should get you going.

Re: Nudge nudge

[ext_1641213]

Thanks !

I was only missing one impossible star position in the top "4". After that, this one wasn't so hard in fact. Nice design anyway.

I just discovered you blog by searching some training in Star Battle, and it is really great, I will surely hang around a little.

[anonymous]

Hi 11'24" on this one .
This was a very nice puzzle motris