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Country Logic Puzzle by Scambigol #10
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Read carefully all instructions!
- 1. Each cell contains a country: they all have different inital letters.
- 2. The arrows indicate alphabetical order for the corresponding row/column.
- 3. For each of the 6 continents there is a column containing 4 of its countries; the only exception is Indonesia appearing in the Oceania column.
- 4. In North America and Oceania columns there is a pair of bordering countries; in the other 4 columns all 4 countries are connected via land borders
example of rule 4: Argentina-Brazil-Suriname-Uruguay would be valid, Argentina-Guyana-Suriname-Uruguay wouldn't because you cannot go from Uruguay to Guyana moving across those 4 countries
For a harder version change the last two hints as follows:
- 3H. For each of the 6 continents there is a column where all countries belong to that continent or border that continent
- 4H. In 4 of the columns all 4 countries are connected via land borders, in the other 2 columns there is a pair of bordering country
Read carefully all instructions!
- 1. Each cell contains a country: they all have different inital letters.
- 2. The arrows indicate alphabetical order for the corresponding row/column.
- 3. For each of the 6 continents there is a column containing 4 of its countries; the only exception is Indonesia appearing in the Oceania column.
- 4. In North America and Oceania columns there is a pair of bordering countries; in the other 4 columns all 4 countries are connected via land borders
example of rule 4: Argentina-Brazil-Suriname-Uruguay would be valid, Argentina-Guyana-Suriname-Uruguay wouldn't because you cannot go from Uruguay to Guyana moving across those 4 countries
For a harder version change the last two hints as follows:
- 3H. For each of the 6 continents there is a column where all countries belong to that continent or border that continent
- 4H. In 4 of the columns all 4 countries are connected via land borders, in the other 2 columns there is a pair of bordering country
Please don't cheat by guess and check!
When you guess an answer, countries with the same initial will be greyed out on the map
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| First submitted | October 3, 2017 |
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I've tried writing a walkthrough for the hard version of the quiz. Please help me if it needs clarifying/fixing/improvement, this is the solution I found but it's very likely there's room for improvement!!
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1) Oman-Qatar-Yemen are in the Asi column (unique countries for those initial letters)
2) Indonesia-Papua New Guinea are in the Oceania column (only possible bordering pair in the Oceania column)
3) Z goes in F4, so col F is Afr
4) Y goes in E4, so col E is Asi
5) V goes in D4
6) Try with no Saudi Arabia:
a) Oce & Asi are the two 'unconnected' columns
b) NAm is connected so Asia is JOQS (Jamaica can't be connected and the other J countries are in Asia)
c) D? no Afr (D can't go in last column), no NAm (unconnected) so D Denmark, must have G Germany
d) V? no Vat (no Italy so unconnected), no Venezuela (4th column can't have ABC, G is taken so V can't get connected), so V Vanuatu
e) P can only be to the left of Q
g) no A in SAm would require C in SAm, that would mean C is cell 'B2' but that leaves no initial letter for cell 'A2', so in SAm
h) NAm: no B, G, P so only option is CEHN, that means SAm is ABFS but S>N
Hence Saudi Arabia is in the quiz
7) Asi: OQSY
8) J is Jamaica so Oce NAm are the unconnected continents
9) V? no Vatican (no Italy) no Venezuela (no S, V is in 4th column so no ABC so unconnected) so V is Vanuatu
10) Afr: RTUZ are the only possible initials that have African countries, only connected path is Rwanda Tanzania Uganda Zambia
11) SAm: no PSUV so need B; can't have C without A (otherwise no initial to the left of C) so must have A and B, so Argentina and Brazil (with Bolivia you can't make a connected path)
12) L? Latvia and Lithuania unconnected (no BPR), Liechtenstein unconnected (no AS) so L is Luxembourg
14) From Luxembourg you can only reach DFGMN so H in NAm, K Kiribati, so Oceania IKPV, N to the left of V
15) 2nd row Eur country before K so F or G; if no F only option is DGLN but D and N are in different columns, so F in Europe
16) if no G in Eur then Eur is FLMN but L>K so G in Eur, Ecuador in SAm, Colombia in SAm
17) FG can't be in column 3 otheriwse no initial to the left of G, so Europe DFGL
18) NAm is HJMN, only border possibility is Honduras-Nicaragua
Column 2 and 3 couldn't be replaced by:
dominican republic - grenada - haiti - jamaica
france - luxembourg - monaco - netherlands ??
And still because of the alphabetical order, you need to put a country that begins with y in a box that is adjacent (vertically or horizontally) to the last one.
But in each column, you need to have a different continent.
So the only country that begins with y, which is an Asian country, needs to be in the box in the last row next to the box near the country that begins with z.
Mind-boggling stuff.
Can I clarify rule D: does it simply mean "every country must border at least one other in that column"? Or something else?