Country Logic Puzzle by Scambigol #20

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
Please don't cheat by guess and check!
Previous quiz in series: #19
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
Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: June 28, 2023
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France
Chile
 
 
Italy
Hungary
Paraguay
Bolivia
 
 
Austria
Liechtenstein
Kosovo
 
 
Czech Republic
Vatican City
North Macedonia
 
 
 
Greece
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jordan
Yemen
 
 
DR Congo
South Sudan
 
 
Rwanda
Uzbekistan
Ethiopia
Oman
 
 
Zambia
Tajikistan
Mongolia
 
 
Qatar
China
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Level 74
Jun 27, 2023
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?

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Level 76
Jun 28, 2023
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
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Level 74
Jun 28, 2023
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.

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Level 76
Jun 28, 2023
Argh somehow i miscounted 19 boxes.. will try again soon. Let me know how it goes for designing the quiz!
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Level 76
Jun 28, 2023
I've changed hint 10, should be ok now.

And I think I solved your quiz, although by 'building' a solution... I'll write it as a comment to your quiz

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Level 74
Jun 29, 2023
Here it is!

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

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Level 60
Jul 17, 2023
POSSIBLE SPOILER:

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

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Level 76
Jul 18, 2023
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
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Level 72
Jul 28, 2023
brilliant as well