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[tatihana00]

A question : can we rotate the tetris pieces? I assume no flipping vertically/horizontally

 

play it like tetris~ leave as is or rotation is fine.

Edited by tatihana00, 29 March 2016 - 04:17 PM.

[Ilonaang]

play it like tetris~ leave as is or rotation is fine.

 

Alright, thank you

[Kelly]

Points are scaled with speed of completion!? Then people living in the US would always have the upper hand! D: Unless you post one at say... 4am PDT, that'll be fair to Asians and Europeans! D: Asians, especially, wont' be able to check constantly from 2am to 8am at the very least! And we can't really solve puzzles at work..... Even if it would take only 10 minutes or so.. =( Asians and Europeans would be at a disadvantage with the point scaling system. =(

[ZeroTigress]

Wow, the scoreboard looks like our first semester math exam results 

Wanted: school-based contest, complete with a host club

[Omelette]

Ah! Tetris puzzle, wouldn't be so hard                                         *after hours of trying.....*

                              

 

Props to those who can solve this!

Edited by Omelette, 29 March 2016 - 08:21 PM.

[YuyaFungami]

Print it out! It really helps!

[Ilonaang]

Ah! Tetris puzzle, wouldn't be so hard                                         *after hours of trying.....*

                              

 

Props to those who can solve this!

 

Doing this puzzle is exactly like trying to put my life together :')))

[NachosH]

This thread got some of the best posts.

And this puzzle, just put me down for incorrect.

[mrricebox]

I have disgraced my Platinum Tetris Friends ranking. I must go back to learning the ways as a level 1 Bronze player  .

[jsynz]

Since you're accepting "Orc Warrior" as answer now, please update the points to reflect the entry times.
My submission, time wise, was before Yuya.

[tatihana00]

Since you're accepting "Orc Warrior" as answer now, please update the points to reflect the entry times.
My submission, time wise, was before Yuya.

 

 

Orc warrior is being accepted after those that got the Furious/Champ Orc Warrior. We sent an email out to all those that entered the first contest, stating that. If you notice you are tied for 2nd lowest score and qualifies you for golden tiara if that is what you are going for.

Edited by tatihana00, 30 March 2016 - 08:21 PM.

[Pandiwi]

3rd Puzzle posted.

 

from 11.20 PM 03/30/2016 to 11.20 AM 03/31/2016.

 

Scoreboard updated and answer key for 2nd puzzle added.

Edited by Pandiwi, 30 March 2016 - 08:28 PM.

[Omelette]

Wow im really stunned on how many people actually did the 2nd puzzle. Props!!

Can some of the people who did this correct PM me on how they do it?(or the event organizers themselves)

As a stupid math student who is willing to learn, this really got my attention, help me please 

 

Print it out! It really helps!

Doing brute force like this, with a lot of probability to fail is just wowwww. There are 11 pieces eligible for being at a corner, so to speak 11 piece to start with, and then 11 other piece to continue the piece. Pick the starting piece wrong, you'll waste hours trying. And ofc, you HAVE to write the wrong combination, so you dont end up doing it again and again. Sorry to say, but this is just impossibru. Getting the first piece right too doesn't help, still a lot of chances to fail.

 

All the tips and trick out there on the internet are for normal tetris cubes, since certain pieces fits with each other to make smaller cubes.

So yea this too won't work.

Im open for codes and alogrithms to solve this too, if anyone of you did make a program. I got a few IT dudes to help me.

 

*This is not a controversial inducing post, just wanting to know how to solve this 

[dawnte]

This puzzle made me wanna commit honourable sudoku 

[YuyaFungami]

Doing brute force like this, with a lot of probability to fail is just wowwww. There are 11 pieces eligible for being at a corner, so to speak 11 piece to start with, and then 11 other piece to continue the piece. Pick the starting piece wrong, you'll waste hours trying. And ofc, you HAVE to write the wrong combination, so you dont end up doing it again and again. Sorry to say, but this is just impossibru. Getting the first piece right too doesn't help, still a lot of chances to fail.

 

All the tips and trick out there on the internet are for normal tetris cubes, since certain pieces fits with each other to make smaller cubes.

So yea this too won't work.

Im open for codes and alogrithms to solve this too, if anyone of you did make a program. I got a few IT dudes to help me.

 

*This is not a controversial inducing post, just wanting to know how to solve this 

=oo Just meant it helps to physically move them 

[jamdonutjam]

are there more solutions to Tuesday's puzzle? The examples provided are the exact same one rotated 180 degrees.

 

[jamdonutjam]

Wow im really stunned on how many people actually did the 2nd puzzle. Props!!

Can some of the people who did this correct PM me on how they do it?(or the event organizers themselves)

As a stupid math student who is willing to learn, this really got my attention, help me please 

 

Doing brute force like this, with a lot of probability to fail is just wowwww. There are 11 pieces eligible for being at a corner, so to speak 11 piece to start with, and then 11 other piece to continue the piece. Pick the starting piece wrong, you'll waste hours trying. And ofc, you HAVE to write the wrong combination, so you dont end up doing it again and again. Sorry to say, but this is just impossibru. Getting the first piece right too doesn't help, still a lot of chances to fail.

 

All the tips and trick out there on the internet are for normal tetris cubes, since certain pieces fits with each other to make smaller cubes.

So yea this too won't work.

Im open for codes and alogrithms to solve this too, if anyone of you did make a program. I got a few IT dudes to help me.

 

*This is not a controversial inducing post, just wanting to know how to solve this 

 

I was on the premise that each block is rotatable, independent of each other, so thats like, 4^10 combinations... fak. dat. sheeeet.

[Mayhem]

Orc warrior is being accepted after those that got the Furious/Champ Orc Warrior. We sent an email out to all those that entered the first contest, stating that. If you notice you are tied for 2nd lowest score and qualifies you for golden tiara if that is what you are going for.

 

Well -_-. Too late for that. Would have been nice to know that before.

[NachosH]

If this Sodoku wasn't hard enough, gotta do it on Paint to really get that feeling going

Edited by NachosH, 31 March 2016 - 08:33 AM.

[Omelette]

How to solve Tuesday's Puzzle, by anonymous.

Spoiler

First, I copied the base image and all of the individual piece images into GIMP (a free, open source photoshop) as separate layers and applied transparency to the white color, so I could drag and drop them easily and they'd overlap nicely.

 

Then I started with a list of which pieces could fit in which corners.

 

The top right was the best place to start, since only 2 pieces could fit there: dark green and dark blue.  Right off the bat, the dark blue one can't be there because it just makes another corner that would need to be dark green, which would create an impossible gap, so it had to be dark green in the far top right corner.

 

From there, the dark blue had to fit under it.

 

The bottom right had to be dark orange, pink, or light orange since the beige and dark gray pieces would've left impossible patterns to fill.  I basically did trial and error here, and found that if I used the pink/light orange pieces, I couldn't find a solution, so process of elimination said i had to use the dark orange piece there.

 

Once that was in, the light green HAD to be next to the dark green because the pink/lightorange piece would've left a 2 block gap between it and the darkorange piece, which is impossible to fill, so I ended up in process of elimination again to see what went between light green and dark orange.

 

I think you get the idea from there, it was just a matter of making a mental list of which pieces COULD fit into what I already had, and making a "branch point" from there and trying one piece and seeing if the puzzle was solvable, otherwise, ctrl+z to the branch point and try the next piece.  Eventually coming across the solved puzzle.

 

I hope that helps!

Edited by Omelette, 31 March 2016 - 09:58 AM.

[ShinobiEX3]

I'm glad everyone is have a grand time on this. Tati and pandy are doing a good job.

[Pandiwi]

Fourth puzzle is up!

 

From 03/31/2016 12:40 PM to 04/01/2016 12:40 AM.

 

Also scoreboard updated and key answer for 3rd puzzle.

 

Remember this before send your e-mail:

 

Please send a new email with the completed puzzle and word list and forum name to Speakeasy.iro@gmail.com

 

Edited by Pandiwi, 31 March 2016 - 11:30 AM.

[Pandiwi]

How to solve Tuesday's Puzzle, by anonymous.

Spoiler

First, I copied the base image and all of the individual piece images into GIMP (a free, open source photoshop) as separate layers and applied transparency to the white color, so I could drag and drop them easily and they'd overlap nicely.

 

Then I started with a list of which pieces could fit in which corners.

 

The top right was the best place to start, since only 2 pieces could fit there: dark green and dark blue.  Right off the bat, the dark blue one can't be there because it just makes another corner that would need to be dark green, which would create an impossible gap, so it had to be dark green in the far top right corner.

 

From there, the dark blue had to fit under it.

 

The bottom right had to be dark orange, pink, or light orange since the beige and dark gray pieces would've left impossible patterns to fill.  I basically did trial and error here, and found that if I used the pink/light orange pieces, I couldn't find a solution, so process of elimination said i had to use the dark orange piece there.

 

Once that was in, the light green HAD to be next to the dark green because the pink/lightorange piece would've left a 2 block gap between it and the darkorange piece, which is impossible to fill, so I ended up in process of elimination again to see what went between light green and dark orange.

 

I think you get the idea from there, it was just a matter of making a mental list of which pieces COULD fit into what I already had, and making a "branch point" from there and trying one piece and seeing if the puzzle was solvable, otherwise, ctrl+z to the branch point and try the next piece.  Eventually coming across the solved puzzle.

 

I hope that helps!

 

That's very nice of you '-' 

[Amykawaii]

that was too easy.

[2637140131190422163]

Yeah!! But thats ok, because yesterday's sudoku was pretty hard D:

 thank you for making this awesome contest! <3

It makes me think about numbers and words even on my last week of vacations haha