Double Yajilin by Grant Fikes
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Theme: What are the Odds?
Author/Opus: This is the 233rd puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Grant Fikes.
Rules: Standard Yajilin rules, except that instead of blackening single cells, blacken in dominoes (1×2 rectangles). Clues indicate the total number of dominoes (not the total number of cells) that are shaded in the given direction.
Answer String: Enter the length in cells of the horizontal loop segments from left to right in the marked rows, starting at the top. If the loop only has vertical segments in the marked row, enter 0. Separate each row’s entry with a comma.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 1:15, Master = 2:30, Expert = 5:00
Solution: PDF
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Fun puzzle, thank you.
Just a thought: I would suggest putting specifically in the rules for these double Yajilin that the dominoes cannot touch orthogonally, but can touch diagonally.
Not required really because the rules of Yajilin clearly state that the blackened cells cannot share an edge with each other and Double Yajilin just borrows the rules from Yajilin .
4:18
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