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[ttsmurphy81]

Since I couldn't find anywhere else to post this, it's here. Anyway, just want to let the PTB that I am really enjoying the Nurikabe puzzles!

thanks
teresa

[Pedrocelli]

Hi - loved the Nurikabe while it lasted , pity they have stopped now .

I have found that the last puzzle posted (the big one) has three valid answers according to the rules . One of them has two 2x2 blocks of four white squares, one has one block, and one has no blocks. In all the rule sets for Nurikabe that I have seen, there is no mention of this not being allowed. Certainly a 2x2 block of black squares is disallowed, but not with white squares. There are nine squares which can change in three different cominations. I can post the three solutions if I someone is interested.

[Pedrocelli]

No comment at all from the PTB (or anyone else) about the multiple answers? Does anyone else out there agree or disagree that there are three possible solutions, as mentioned in the previous entry?

Curious

[24 hours? NE!]

Is anyone actively doing these puzzles?

Are there other places to find new ones?

[Pedrocelli]

I was, but I haven't found a site like this that provides puzzles that can be easily printed and done in my own time.

BTW, NE did you complete that last big one here? If so, did you come to the same conclusion as me?

[24 hours? NE!]

Haven't gotten to that one yet. Still working my way through them.

[24 hours? NE!]

Wow - that last one was a headache master! Spent way more time on that than I had the other puzzles.

It was kind of fun to start - a lot of islands were found using all the rules, but then it became very difficult.

I didn't find multiple answers - it almost required a complete puzzle to get the final spaces based on the continuous black rule.

I've found that this site's nurikabe puzzles will avoid using 2x2 blocks in its islands (unlike some other sites). That can help to trying solutions.

Wish I could find more sets of nurikabe puzzles like this site.

[24 hours? NE!]

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