Project: WEEKLY PUZZLE FUN (wpfC)

To apply your skills in the solving of a logic puzzle.

A team of computer programmers have built a new chess game which they have successfully tested against a range of top-ranked players - not a single human player could beat it!

1. Mae played second.
2. The player who started with the Giuoco Start played sometime after Tara.
3. Gail didn't lose after exactly 34 moves.
4. Of Esther and the player who lost in 41 moves, one started with the Slav Defense and the other played fourth.
5. The person who lost in 48 moves, the person who played third, and the player who started with the Evans Gambit are three different people.
6. Esther played fifth.
7. The person who started with the Torre Attack played 3 games after the person who started with the Evans Gambit.
8. Of Gail and the person who played fourth, one started with the Ware Opening and the other lost in 41 moves.
9. The player who lost in 18 moves played 1 game after the person who started with the Evans Gambit.

Logic grids are not the only form of logic puzzle; here is another one that relies heavily on logic and reasoning in order to sift through.

A word math puzzle is one where the numbers 0-9 have been replaced with various letters of the alphabet; it is your task to determine what number each letter maps to, and report that to me in the project submission.

For this sort of problem, you will likely want to take notes; all the various little tests you concoct to prove or disprove some relationship. This may also take a bit longer and seem more overwhelming, but really, it is just longhand math :) Remember to attack the problem in pieces, and not head-on all-at-once.

Practice some similar math problems to derive patterns so that the seemingly unfamiliar letters performing math can start to make more sense.

               COB
        +---------
  SCUBA | NUISANCE
         - EAOUC
           ----- 
            LEIBC
           -BSSSL
            -----
            NBOCAE
           -NALIOS
            ------
              CEOB

With the logic grids you put your logic skills to the test, with the word math you math skills. Here, we will explore various other types of puzzles, often combining both logic and math skills to solve, but also exercising different aspects of your deduction/induction skills.

Enter numbers into the blank spaces so that each row, column and 3×3 box contains the full sequence of numbers 1 to 9.

Top row:

To submit this weekly puzzle, simply run the submit line below; a submit-time questionnaire will collect your puzzle results.

When you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following:

lab46:~/src/discrete/wpf$ submit discrete wpfC
Submitting discrete project "wpfC":

SUCCESSFULLY SUBMITTED
lab46:~/src/discrete/wpf$