1) No country appears more than once
2) In each row adjacent countries border each other
3) To properly complete the quiz you must never write down a country if you're not 100% sure it's the one that goes there!
4) 'Unconnected' countries have been greyed out 5) All other countries are belong to a horizontal path; the shortest paths consist of 3 countries, the longest of 23 6) Horizontal paths longer than 8 go across more than one row 7) Cell borders: purple highlights first and last countries of paths; for longer paths starting from the 8th country blue means coastal, brown means landlocked 8) Paths are sorted by alphabetical order of first country 9) In all paths the first country is alphabetically before the last country 10) The two doubly landlocked answers are in neighbouring columns 11) Six cells have a green border: take their length in letters and you will get a sequence of consecutive numbers with no repetitions (eg 2-3-4-5-6-7)
Country names are standard JetPunk names
Overseas borders and maritime lake borders are considered
To avoid whammies type 'igeria' and add N at the start if you want to write Nigeria avoiding Niger; similarly type 'uineabissau' and add G (to avoid Guinea and GB type-ins); also be careful about Ukraine/Uk etc
oh no! you are not supposed to use trial and error!! you can solve it without taking any risks (unless I made some mistakes in designing it but hopefully I haven't)
I found the sequence with Indonesia in it. Now I can find 10 other countries which only border one country. So they must go in the purple boxes, but there are hundreds of possible permutations, right? Ireland, say - there are loads of boxes that could go in, and you'd have to compute a lot of different scenarios. Seems like I'd need a computer program to do it.
Good job! Italy has a similar sequence to Indonesia. Ireland must go to Uk which must then go to Spain, you cant leave Portugal on its own so from Spain you go to Portugal and thats a 4 country path. Having used Spain, Andorra can only connect to France and the same goes for Monaco so thats another sequence. You can use alphabetical order to place them
Wow. I just completed this, and boy was it a challenge. Great work! One thing I will say, you might wanna check the part with Mauritania and Morocco. I think those two countries might be interchangeable.
Thanks! Argh you are right about Mauritania and Morocco thanks for spotting that... hopefully I can think of something 'simple' to take care of that. By the way if you want to share your 'solution' I will be happy to compare it with mine, I am curious to see if there are different/simpler ways of solving this
All your bases are belong to us :-)