There are two 'grids' made up of cells; each cell contains a country. You shouldn't type an answer if you are not 100% sure it goes there, no guessing!!
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A. DEFINITIONS: 1) There are two grids, each grid consists of cells that need to be filled in with country names 2) Two countries border on the grid if they are adjacent either horizontally or vertically
B. RULES: 1) answers begin with 24 different letters 2) three answers begin with the same letter and two of those are coastal countries that share the same three letters 3) background colour: blue means coastal country, yellow means landlocked country, orange means double-landlocked country (there are no island countries) 4) if two answers border on the world map they also border in the grid 5) countries from the same continent are in the same grid 6) moving across cells that border both in the grid and on the world map, all countries can reach the sea 7) there's a row where you can find all answers that begin with a vowel (Y is not considered a vowel; consider the grids to be horizontally adjacent for this) 8) all multi-word answers border another multi-word answer on the grid 9) grid borders between landlocked and coastal countries: the coastal country name is always shorter than the landlocked one or at least twice as long 10) grid-borders between countries whose initials are consecutive letters of the alphabet: at least half of them are between pairs of landlocked countries
Hints for getting started: 0) answers begin with 24 different letters, there are no countries that begin with W or X 1) list all land-locked countries and their initials, count how many land-locked answers you need
Note: the 'borderless' cell is meant to be part of an L but I couldn't merge cells that way so I thought I'd remove the border to make it understandable
Thank you for number 20! Quite complex, but great as usual.
However, I don't get how to distinguish the boxes of R* and Z*. If they are exchanged, we still have a couple of initial consecutive letters (R-S in one case, R-Q in the other). Do I miss something?
Argh i missed something, i didnt notice that R would end up next to Q.. i’ll have to think of a different hint! By the way I have been trying to solve your puzzle but i havent managed to place a single country, I might ask for hints soon! Also please create it as a quiz! I can help you if you dont know how to do things but it’s not that difficult
About your quiz: I only used rule 10 for final check, so I think it can be removed and substituted with something to fix R* and Z*.
About my quiz: Ok I'll try to understand how to put in JetPunk!
By the way, I'm surprised that you haven't managed to put in a single country: at least the first one should be immediate. Did you noticed rule 1 (Europe only)? 18 different initial letters, 18 boxes... In particuar, there is a country which position in the grid is mandatory.
By the way, it was more challenging for me to understand how to put the quiz in JP than how to construct the quiz itself...but it was fun! The single steps were easy, but all together for the first time was tricky! Manual grid with unusual shape, merged cells, coloured cells... I was getting crazy... when I thought I had finished, I realized that all my instructions were written without line breaks and at first I had no idea how to fix it... but now I'm proud of myself :D
for hint #7: a row with all answers starting with a vowel?
I am reading this as they countries start with AEIOU (not necessarily in order). However, after giving up, I see that is not the case. I dont see a row where there is all vowels starting for countries. Am I reading the hint wrong?
yes it's bc broken between two grids - I tried explaining that in the hint itself, in brackets: "consider the grids to be horizontally adjacent for this" but I guess it's not clear enough
However, I don't get how to distinguish the boxes of R* and Z*. If they are exchanged, we still have a couple of initial consecutive letters (R-S in one case, R-Q in the other). Do I miss something?
About my quiz: Ok I'll try to understand how to put in JetPunk!
By the way, I'm surprised that you haven't managed to put in a single country: at least the first one should be immediate. Did you noticed rule 1 (Europe only)? 18 different initial letters, 18 boxes... In particuar, there is a country which position in the grid is mandatory.
And I think I solved your quiz, although by 'building' a solution... I'll write it as a comment to your quiz
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1867377/country-logic-puzzle-europe
By the way, it was more challenging for me to understand how to put the quiz in JP than how to construct the quiz itself...but it was fun! The single steps were easy, but all together for the first time was tricky! Manual grid with unusual shape, merged cells, coloured cells... I was getting crazy... when I thought I had finished, I realized that all my instructions were written without line breaks and at first I had no idea how to fix it... but now I'm proud of myself :D
for hint #7: a row with all answers starting with a vowel?
I am reading this as they countries start with AEIOU (not necessarily in order). However, after giving up, I see that is not the case. I dont see a row where there is all vowels starting for countries. Am I reading the hint wrong?
or is it bc it is broken between two grids