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Author: | simon_blow_snow [ Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:17 pm ] |
Post subject: | Tournament - a crazily sophisticated logic puzzle |
This is another creation by Naoki Inaba, but as opposed to Island which has a very simple, elegant and intuitive rule, the rules for this one is notoriously sophisticated and it takes a huge amount of time and consideration to devise a not-too-difficult-to-understand format of presentation. Firstly let's go straight to the source page of the Naoki Inaba site: http://inabapuzzle.com/honkaku/tona.html The rules translator wrote: Lines are drawn connecting all the cells. [forming a single connected network] The complete diagram represents how a tournament occurs. The three different shapes represent different types of participants. The Kanji character [translating as "superior"] represents the tournament victory. Black circles represent a match between two participants. [The participants and victory symbols have lines in one direction. The black circles have lines in 3 directions. Cells with no symbol have lines in 2 directions.] The number in a shape is the quantity of matches won by that participant. The winner of each match continues to a later stage of the tournament. There are no matches which result in draws. [The winner of each match is determined in a fashion similar to rock-paper-scissors. Square beats Circle. Circle beats Triangle. Triangle beats Square.] This is the image of an example puzzle (with answer): Attachment: tona00.png [ 2.09 KiB | Viewed 17027 times ] |
Author: | simon_blow_snow [ Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:20 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Tournament - a crazily sophisticated logic puzzle |
This is the image of the stage 1 puzzle from Naoki Inaba's webpage: Attachment: tona01.png [ 1.52 KiB | Viewed 17027 times ] |
Author: | simon_blow_snow [ Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:21 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Tournament - a crazily sophisticated logic puzzle |
Anyway, here are my own graphical presentations of these puzzles: Example puzzle: Attachment: mtona00.png [ 5.62 KiB | Viewed 17027 times ] |
Author: | simon_blow_snow [ Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:21 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Tournament - a crazily sophisticated logic puzzle |
Example answer: Attachment: mtona00s.png [ 6.58 KiB | Viewed 17027 times ] |
Author: | simon_blow_snow [ Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:23 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Tournament - a crazily sophisticated logic puzzle |
Stage 1 puzzle: Attachment: mtona01.png [ 8.32 KiB | Viewed 17027 times ] |
Author: | simon_blow_snow [ Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:24 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Tournament - a crazily sophisticated logic puzzle |
My goal is to represent these puzzles in a graphical way such that they can be somewhat understood without any verbose instruction. Do you think a person with normal intelligence can understand the rules just from the images of the example puzzle and answer, and proceed to solve stage 1? P.S. Does anyone know a symbol character of a clenched fist from a standard Windows unicode font? My best find is a "thumbs up" symbol from the "Wingdings" font, to represent the "rock" in "rock-paper-scissors". |
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