Puzzles!

Yeah, I will continue making puzzles, only not at the same rate as the one in my blog. Probably once every time I have the time. Maybe like betaveros and his one-month-a-puzzle schedule (though he starts deviating to less than a week per puzzle (who said I won’t either? (yay parentheses nesting))). If I can make the picture from this phone. >_<

Meanwhile, inspired from this blog entry, here’s a little puzzle for you to crack…

S01 – Slitherlink

This is a Slitherlink puzzle, with the All-Odd variation. All the odd numbers have been given to you; an empty cell indicates that its clue is not odd. Your task is not (only) to find the solution; your task is to prove that the solution is unique.

EDIT: Okay prove that there is no solution. Apparently you must make a loop.

Yeah it’s cruel. And whoa a post within a post.

Grand Slam

Not a real game
N AKT98765432S AKH
S QS 765432D 765432C
E and W whatever
North plays 7S.

It is indeed achievable. Spoiler about the solution follows…

What Pokemon is it?

It’s weird that I’m a fan of Pokemon but I don’t have any entry about it in this blog. So here goes the first entry.

The following regex expression scores precisely one match in the set of all 649 names of Pokemon. (Hopefully; at least it scores precisely one match among all Pokemon names I remember.) What is it? (Case insensitive.)
(j|q|x|z).+\1

Achievement Replenished

Well, so my second forum game with a co-mod is almost ready. Thanks to Yoshi aka Yoshiap aka [real name redacted], the game is well prepared. Hopefully. The nth achievement game in AoPS, also the mth (I cannot use the same variable to represent different numbers right?) forum game that is based on another forum game.

So…I think I haven’t got to know good things to post, so here’s a bridge hand. A bad one, I would say, since I got 2D+5. 😦 I’m south. See if you can get a grand slam yourself.
South: 9653S AKQ7H KJ3D A7C
West: K84S 9643H T65D 843C
North: AQT7S J2H A98742D QC
East: J2S T85H QD KJT9652C

Oh, in case you’re one of the few that reads this entry, here’s a hint: I have a secret in one of my AoPS blog entries. A recent one.