Spiral Galaxies by Serkan Yürekli
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Theme: When Will the Solution Be Clear?
Author/Opus: This is the 159th puzzle from our contributing puzzlemaster Serkan Yürekli.
Rules: Standard Spiral Galaxies rules.
[Copying the rules here as this is the first week: Divide the grid along the indicated lines into connected regions – “galaxies” – with rotational symmetry. Each cell must belong to one galaxy, and each galaxy must have exactly one circle at its center of rotational symmetry.]
Answer String: Enter the number of cells in each connected group (between bold lines) in the marked rows. Separate each row’s entry from the next with a comma. The example has the answer “2131,331”.
Time Standards (highlight to view): Grandmaster = 5:00, Master = 6:30, Expert = 13:00
Solution: PDF; a solution video is available here.
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Loved the theme, haha
23:07.Great construction! Which came first ? Solution or the puzzle ?
The solution was first. It is a little bit hard to find a proper or a meaningful theme in the Spiral Galaxies, so I tried to get a satisfying (at least for me) idea first, after that I constructed the whole puzzle on it. However, it didn’t go well in the first attempt, because it’s hard to find a specific cell that can be contained by just one galaxy. I changed some of the galaxies to hide some logic ways for the solvers, then it worked.