2009/4/8 Alex Smith <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 14:38 -0400, Jamie Dallaire wrote: >> To Tiger and ais523: Is there any particular logic to the way you came >> up with these, or was it just a matter of trying until something >> worked? The first two times this puzzle was submitted I tried the >> latter technique but eventually tired of failure ;-) > > I started with solving it on a grid much bigger than 5*5 (it was 12*12, > IIRC), to get the relative positions of the colour patches right. I then > went and shrank it in size until I got a 5*5 solution. > > Tiger: Did you do it the same way, or did you have a different method? > Eeh... It just seemed to work out for me. I guess what I did was trying to think "Ok, how would a patch have to look in order to touch six others?" So I started filling out squares with one colour until the patch had enough edges to touch six others, and filled out one square of each colour adjacent to it. Then trial and error with simply expanding the other patches until they touched each other.
-- -Tiger
