Puzzle Tournament 2
Puzzle Prime’s second puzzle tournament was organized on June 27, 2020. Congrats to Elyot G. who solved all the puzzles! You can see the problems and the rankings below.
You have 60 minutes to solve 6 puzzles, each worth 1 point. Upload your solutions as a pdf, document, or image, using the form below. Good luck!
Time for work: 1 hour
Puzzle Prime Knight
Start from a square with a P on the chessboard, and keep jumping via knight’s move, consequently landing on squares with the letters U-Z-Z-L-E-P-R-I-M-E.
Point of View
8 of these diagrams correspond to views of the object in the corner when it is looked from different perspectives. Which 2 aren’t?
Note: The projections below are parallel (not perspective).
Chess Fight
Choose a chess piece on the board. Then, move the piece to a cell with another piece, and remove the first piece. Repeat, by moving the second piece to a cell with a new piece, and removing it. Continue until there is only one piece remaining on the board.
Note: For example, we can move the Queen on d2 to the Bishop on b2, the Knight on c3, or the Bishop on d4. If we move the Queen to d4 and remove it from the board, then we must move the Bishop on d4. The only available cell is c3, where a Knight is positioned. We must remove the bishop and move the Knight on c3 either to the Rook on b1 or the Rook on a2…
Special Date
On April 5, 2013 (5.4.2013), the digits used for expressing the date were all different and consecutive. When was the last date before it with this property?
Remark: The digits 9 and 0 are not consecutive.
Splitting the Area
You have 1 square with side length 1 and 2 circles with diameter length 1. Draw a single line so that the resulting areas on the left and on the right of the line are equal.
Notes: You need to specify how you find a line satisfying the condition above.
Chess Connect
The starting and ending positions of 6 chess pieces are shown on the board. Find the trajectories of the pieces, if you know that they do not overlap and completely cover the board.
Notes: The pieces can not backtrack. Two trajectories can intersect diagonally but can not pass through the same square. Only the Knight has a discontinuous trajectory.
Solutions
The answer to Point of View is C and J.
The answer to Special Date is 23.4.1765.
The solutions of the other puzzles are shown below.
Results
Puzzler | P1 | P2 | P3 | P4 | P5 | P6 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elyot G. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
David R. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Rodrigo R. | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.5 |
N | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Hristo H. | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Rockmosis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Prizes
#1.
$10 Gift Card (iTunes or Play Store)
Puzzle Avatar (custom made)
Puzzle Pelago (mobile game by Hallgrim Games)
Hook (mobile game by Rainbow Train)
#2.
$5 Gift Card (iTunes or Play Store)
Puzzle Avatar (custom made)
Puzzle Pelago (mobile game by Hallgrim Games)
Hook (mobile game by Rainbow Train)
#3.
Puzzle Avatar (custom made)
Puzzle Pelago (mobile game by Hallgrim Games)
Hook (mobile game by Rainbow Train)
#4-5.
Puzzle Pelago (mobile game by Hallgrim Games)
Hook (mobile game by Rainbow Train)
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