Air Canada's inflight magazine "En Route" has a neat puzzle type that kept me busy for a little while on a recent flight. In a square grid, maybe 12x12 or so, a certain number of trees are placed in cells. You then have to attach a tent to each tree, in a cell neighbouring it horizontally or vertically, such that no two tents neighbour one another (diagonal neighbours are also disallowed). Numbers beside and below the grid tell you how many tents should appear in each row and column. It was a fun puzzle, and I'd like to find some more.
En Route doesn't put their puzzle page on the web. Googling +tents +trees +puzzle doesn't turn up anything, and I wonder whether this is a known type of puzzle that usually features other objects I could search for (i.e. En Route's puzzle editor changed it to trees and tents). Does this ring a bell with anyone? Has anyone got a recent issue of En Route they can copy a puzzle from and post it, as an example to others?
> Air Canada's inflight magazine "En Route" has a neat puzzle type that kept > me busy for a little while on a recent flight. In a square grid, maybe > 12x12 or so, a certain number of trees are placed in cells. You then have > to attach a tent to each tree, in a cell neighbouring it horizontally or > vertically, such that no two tents neighbour one another (diagonal > neighbours are also disallowed). Numbers beside and below the grid tell > you how many tents should appear in each row and column. It was a fun > puzzle, and I'd like to find some more.
> En Route doesn't put their puzzle page on the web. Googling +tents +trees > +puzzle doesn't turn up anything, and I wonder whether this is a known > type of puzzle that usually features other objects I could search for > (i.e. En Route's puzzle editor changed it to trees and tents). Does this > ring a bell with anyone? Has anyone got a recent issue of En Route they > can copy a puzzle from and post it, as an example to others?
> Kristin
In Holland we have (or at least had) monthly editions in which I have seen such puzzles. A personal webpage in Dutch containing a similar puzzle is http://members.lycos.nl/puzzel/logica.html#Puzzel3 I suggest you mail the author of this page for more information on this type of puzzle.
All the way at the bottom of the aforementioned page you'll find a diagram, with the following text (translated):
<START TRANSLATION>
House-Tree-Animal In the diagram, 16 connected triplets have to be drawn. A triplet consists of a house, a tree and an animal, in which the tree always is at the centre. Similar symbols can never be found in adjacent squares, not even diagonally. The three symbols can be placed horizontally, vertically, or 'cornerwise', but not diagonally. The digits on the right and bottom indicate the number of symbols in the respective row or column. <DIAGRAM: http://members.lycos.nl/puzzel/hbb.gif > If you think you have solved a puzzle, mail it to me: karengerr...@dolfijn.nl. Make a picture of your solution (e.g. jpg) to send it in few bytes and with a good result.
Dave Langers <d.langers.wants-no-s...@wxs.nl> wrote: > In Holland we have (or at least had) monthly editions in which I have > seen such puzzles. A personal webpage in Dutch containing a similar > puzzle is > http://members.lycos.nl/puzzel/logica.html#Puzzel3
Thanks! That is just what I was looking for.
> House-Tree-Animal
or Huisje-boomje-beestje! "Beestje" is great - makes you think of beasties. Dutch is really fun to read when you know German and English. Is the "-je" at the end of each word same as German "-chen", a diminutive? "Boomje" sounds like "baumchen".
On 3 Aug 2003 15:41:37 GMT, Kristin McConaughey <k...@pas-de-spam.com> wrote:
>Dutch is really fun to read when you know German and English
I saw an introductory German-language textbook (for English speakers) which started by printing the weather forecast in Dutch. It was a rather clever technique for relaxing the nervous.
>>In Holland we have (or at least had) monthly editions in which I have >>seen such puzzles. A personal webpage in Dutch containing a similar >>puzzle is >>http://members.lycos.nl/puzzel/logica.html#Puzzel3
> Thanks! That is just what I was looking for.
>>House-Tree-Animal
> or Huisje-boomje-beestje! "Beestje" is great - makes you think of > beasties. Dutch is really fun to read when you know German and English. Is > the "-je" at the end of each word same as German "-chen", a diminutive? > "Boomje" sounds like "baumchen".
You're right, Kristin (is that a Scandinavian name BTW?), it is a diminutive. "-je" is the basic form, but depending on the last letter of the word sometimes "-tje", "-pje" or "-etje" has to be added. Like the tree: 'boom'-'boomPje' (instead of 'boomje'). And "beest" could indeed be translated to "beast", although I think that "beast" might have a bit of a negative connotation to it, whereas "beest" doesn't.
Some more news: I did find a tree+tent problem in a recent edition of a puzzle magazine, so they still exist and are reasonably popular. If you don't mind the language-difference, you might want to take a peek into one of the magazines in the category "logische puzzels" on http://www.abonnee.nu/index_html?titelid=28 (look for "breinbrekers"="brainbashers" and "logimix") Or on http://www.denksport.nl/denkshop/puzzel.php?959766020 (look for Logi-Varia)
I have the impression that logic puzzles seem to be slightly more popular in the Dutch speaking community (including Belgium). For instance, whole separate editions are devoted to a puzzle type called "Logikwiz" or "Logigram", whereas I haven't been able to find any such diagrams on the internet in other languages. See for example my own site http://home.planet.nl/~d.langers/home.html?3gB Is this impression correct, or have I just not been able to find the right sites?
Dave Langers <d.lang...@wxs.nl> wrote: > You're right, Kristin (is that a Scandinavian name BTW?),
Yes, though I just searched the directory at my university in North America and found such a variety of surnames for people called 'Kristin', that I guess it's a global name now. I was about to cut-and-paste the list when I realised I'm probably not supposed to, though it seems harmless enough.
No prizes for guessing what part of the world "McConaughey" is from.
> Some more news: I did find a tree+tent problem in a recent edition of a > puzzle magazine, so they still exist and are reasonably popular.
Thanks! I have also made contact with someone whose father works for Air Canada and has a stack of back issues of En Route with the puzzles, so I think I'll take one or two along each time I travel from now.
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