So long

…without a post. Heh. Sorry. Too many programming stuff and playing games. I didn’t even finish the solution of Puzzle 2 yet. Perhaps it will be a good activity to fill in my free time at college. 😛 I do want the solutions to be all up and running, though, so let’s just hope that I get the motivation to do it instead of procrastinating and do something else. 😛

I have a tumblr! I will post random rambles there. I think I posted this somewhere:

“tumblr to WordPress is like Twitter to Facebook in my opinion. Twitter allows short status updates while Facebook allows longer status updates; WordPress will be my place for more serious posts and tumblr will be my place for less serious posts.”

…oops that’s paraphrased from my tumblr blog which none of you should have known before this. :/

I’m developing my site too. Yes, yet another remake. That will also contain a lot of my projects, including but not limited to crossposting puzzles there and developing my Alternate Universe to be more documented (hence allowing it to be more complex). This blog will keep being my blog, with all puzzles being posted; then again, I haven’t figured out how to implement a blog system to my site and I’m too lazy to use WordPress.org or something. I’m still going without any money out from my pocket, save for the cost of internet.

Alright, that’s enough update for now, I think. I might be participating at Indian Puzzle Championship (obviously as an unofficial participant); the “might” is because it’s hard to estimate my availability. But with the participation window of 48 hours, I think it’s 95% guaranteed that I’ll have time. So, expect my name on the scoreboard (it’s still scoreboard even if I’m not the top 20 or so) 😛

Puzzle 64…

Oh hey. Remember this?

No one has figured out the treasure yet. So I’ll give you some help. E-mail me with your progress and I will determine the best hint to point you at the right direction.

I think I’ll give anyone about two days between hints.

EDIT: Okay I think I accidentally made this ridiculously hard to pursue the uniqueness of the puzzle. Here are some large hints.

You’re supposed to observe the grid.

…however, R6C1 and R10C6 are put only for uniqueness, and you should treat them as not important while finding the treasure. There might be more, but all are disguised in the same way as R6C1 and R10C6. What it means requires one hint 😛

Special Puzzle 11: Canon and Gigue in D

Musical Marathon This is an optimization puzzle. Lay groups of notes on the grid and program a robot to move along a path. When the robot moves on top of a group of notes, the exact group of notes is played. When the robot moves on top of a cell without any group, the previous note is simply held. A group of notes is played for a quaver (half of a quarter, eighth of a measure), so the robot moves at the speed of two units per beat. The given score must be played precisely. The robot may not stop; they must move to an orthogonally adjacent square every quaver. Optimize by using the least number of notes.

Here is the puzzle (Canon and Gigue in D by Johann Pachelbel), and an example solution by me that is fairly optimized (31 notes):

Special Puzzle 11: Musical Marathon

Special Puzzle 11: Canon and Gigue in D
Musical Marathon
(MIDI if you want to listen instead of read)

The path is the following, starting from the black-bordered square (B indicates introducing the robot):
B↓←↑→↓←↑ / →↑↑←↑↑→→ / ←↓←↑→↓→→ / ↓→←↑↓↓←← / →↑←↓→↓↓→ / ←→→←←↓→→ / →↓↓→←←↑← / ↑→↓←←←←↓

(You can imagine it. Sadly I don’t have an applet to play it or something. I need to make some applets heh 😛 )

Yes, as you can see, I’m into optimization puzzles too. Also, I listen to too many songs and I recently (re)played SpaceChem, so…yeah.

I also have a 33-measure (264-quaver) song soon. I only need to create the score 😛

Fairy-type

The 18th Pokemon type, as revealed in the trailer an hour ago. For obvious reasons I have to post it, even though this blog is mostly read by puzzle people and not Pokemon people. But whatever.

These Pokemon have been revealed to be Fairy-type:
– Sylveon
– Gardevoir
– Marill
– Jigglypuff

And I’m sure these Pokemon are also Fairy-type:
– Azumarill
– Wigglytuff

Also, Fairy-type is super effective against Dragon-type. This causes Dragon-type to be super effective to one type (Dragon-type) (assuming it is not super effective against Fairy-type, which will make Dragon vs Fairy ridiculous), but weak to three types (Dragon-type, Ice-type, Fairy-type). But heck, Normal-type is super effective to no type and weak to one type (Fighting-type), so this is probably not a big problem. Especially as Dragon-type Pokemon are mostly powerful.

Yay. I have absolutely no idea why I’m posting this.

Tiltmaze 3: Sacrifices

Tiltmaze using fundamental objects, walls, cliffs, and boxes. And two balls. Both balls must be on goals at the same time to complete.

Difficulty 6.0/10 • Target moves 50 moves
Solution Answer (highlight →) ↓←↓→←↑←↑↓→←↑←↓→↑←↑→↑←↑←↓←↓←↑→↑→↓→↓←↓←↓←↓→↑←↓→↓→↑→↓

Tiltmaze 3: Sacrifices

Tiltmaze 3: Sacrifices

Who says size represents difficulty? Good luck cracking this puzzle.

Tiltmaze is in some way similar to Sokoban (and all other interactive puzzles). You should always begin by figuring out what the difficult points are. Better yet, divide the puzzle to parts and solve each separately. Afterwards, handle all the small details, making sure that you don’t screw yourself up.

Tiltmaze 2: Divided By Two

Tiltmaze using fundamental objects, walls, cliffs, and boxes.

Difficulty 3.5/10 • Target moves 37 moves
Solutions
chaotic_iak’s answer (highlight →) ↓→↑←↓←↑↓→↑→↑→↑←↓→↓→↑←↑→↓←↑←↓→↓→↓↑→↑→↑
Wouter Fokkema’s answer (35 moves, highight →) ↓→↑←↓←↑↓→↓↑→↑→↑←↓→↑←→↓←↑←↓→↓→↓↑→↑→↑

Tiltmaze 2: Divided By Two

Tiltmaze 2: Divided By Two

EDIT: Wouter Fokkema has obtained a 35-move solution, put above.

Another Tiltmaze. This thing is weirdly more fun to make, hence why I can post a lot. Or probably simply because I have many ideas now. Yes, you will now see when you also need to retract your moves. And this is getting messy to keep track of. I know 😛

Tiltmaze 1: The Plains

Tiltmaze using fundamental objects and walls.

Difficulty 2.0/10 • Target moves 23 moves
Solution Answer (highlight →) →↑→↓→↑←↑→↑→↑←↓←↑←↓←↑←↓→

Tiltmaze 1: The Plains

Tiltmaze 1: The Plains

So…yeah. First Tiltmaze. This thing has haunted me for a long time (I even remembered when I made a fairly complex puzzle involving some mechanisms interlocked together), but I procrastinated making its JavaScript applet for too long. So screw it and let’s post puzzles as images. (Also, I lost all previous Tiltmaze puzzles. These are purely new.) I always imagine these puzzles as puzzles that don’t exactly require the target moves to be achieved in order to “complete” the puzzle, because these puzzles mostly need global-scale logic, with the exact details not completely necessary. You’ll see an example when I start introducing a few more objects that allow fun tricks.

If you think you have a solution, you can always send me the solution for me to verify. By hand. So I usually won’t respond to solutions that don’t break the target moves. However, if you have a proof that the target moves is impossible, do send it too so I can check my solution too.

Also, Puzzle 1 has a solution. Puzzle 1 is intended for newbies at Fillomino as a “final boss” before being an average competition-style Fillomino solver. 😀

Selesai Sudah.

This post is in Indonesian. Sorry, but I don’t feel like I want to post a translation.

Saat post ini muncul, 31 Mei 2013 jam 20.30, kita sudah bukan lagi anak sekolah (harusnya, kalo acara wisuda ga molor).

12 tahun yang luar biasa. Belajar berbagai ilmu, bertemu banyak teman baru, mendapat banyak pengalaman. Namun 12 tahun tersebut sudah berlalu. Segala sesuatu mempunyai awal dan akhir. (Jangan komen soal math. Ikr pernyataannya salah, but let’s take it poetically.) Teman, kita sudah menjalani banyak tahun bersama, dan kita harus menghadapi kenyataan bahwa kita tidak sekolah selamanya. Kita akan berpisah, menjalani hidup masing-masing, berpencar ke seluruh penjuru dunia.

Glenn, Kane, dan Yohanes. Kalian teman yang luar biasa. Rasanya ga ada kata-kata yang dapat menjelaskan betapa berartinya kalian.

Joey, Jay, Yosua. Kalian teman yang baik diajak ngobrol, diajak main game, dan banyak hal lainnya. Dan juga aku jadi tau setidaknya apa yang anak remaja yang “normal” suka obrolin.

Antonio, Peter, Echa. Saingan terberat di kelas, yang selalu memotivasiku untuk menjadi yang terbaik. Kita lihat pertarungan terakhir di nilai akhir. (Plus, kalian jadi teman main kartu yang bagus 😛 )

Sandra, Anna, Elisabeth, Jesslyn, Sharon, Yoane. Enam orang yang suka main kartu juga. Selain itu, enam orang yang sering nanya math 😛 Tapi bukan berarti kalian tidak diharapkan; aku justru berterima kasih. Aku bisa berbagi ilmu, aku bisa latihan mengajar, dan semoga kalian bisa memakai ilmu yang sudah diberikan. (Setidaknya cara berpikirnya; setiap kali diajarin, semua caranya runtut dan logis kan? Semoga kalian juga bisa berpikir runtut dan logis di kehidupan nyata.) And yes, if you’re wondering, I do liked Yoane. Not so much now though, dia udah tolak 😛

David, Mike, Adi, Merwyn, Mitzi. Rasanya kita kurang ada interaksi di kelas, tapi kalian tetap punya ciri khas masing-masing. David, dulu jadi pesaing ketat, sekarang nilainya jatoh. Tapi masih diperhitungkan. Mike, suka marah-marah, tapi intinya membantu aku untuk self-restrain. Adi, sedikit banyak mengajar musik. Merwyn…apa ya? Paling bikin kaget pas dapet 100 di kimia 😛 Mitzi mirip David. Dulu nilainya bagus, sekarang mulai padam cahayanya.

Syanne, rasanya kita ga pernah ngomong selama 3 tahun ini. Kalau kamu masih marah karena kejadian kelas 8/9, aku mau minta maaf, dan sekarang menunggu jawaban. Aku ga mau meninggalkan sekolah dengan satu masalah yang belum selesai. EDIT: Ok, dia maafin, yay 😀 Thanks ya, now I don’t think I left any problem with my social life 😀

Selain itu, orang selain kelas 12 IPA:

Indi. Salah satu terbaik di kelas juga, dan enak diajak ngobrol. Aku cukup tegang waktu kamu ngomong kelas 10 pindah sekolah, mikir bahwa temen-temennya kurang. Ternyata salah. Tapi tetep, kamu masih salah satu temen terbaik.

Wikki. Sama pendiamnya, pernah aku paksa ngerjain puzzle 😛 Kamu juga enak diajak ngobrol, bisa dengerin omonganku yang suka aneh arahnya.

Celia. Orang yang pernah saling bikin…something, lupa singkatannya, tapi yang bikin tulisan buat dibaca pas mau tidur (walaupun aku biasa bacanya right after getting it 😛 ). Juga orang paling pertama yang aku pernah suka crapcrapcrap wtf did i just write, dan sering diajak chatting tentang macem-macem.

There might be more, but I have terrible memory. Maaf kalau aku lupa nulis.

Buat guru-guru juga ada.

Guru favorit tetep P.Budi (Fisika). Guru paling gokil. 😛 Walaupun cuma ngajar setahun, impresinya luar biasa.

Guru kedua favorit ya B.Shintia (Biologi), yang udah ngajar 12 tahun biologi melulu. Good luck S2-nya 😀

Selanjutnya ada P.Juliawan (Math), B.Palupi (Kimia), Mr.Rein (Inggris). Masing-masing punya kesan sendiri. P.Jul punya ciri khas, kira-kira mirip P.Willy (Math kelas 11). B.Palupi jelas guru kimia yang paling berkesan, dan punya ciri khas ngajar dengan nada terkesan marah 😛 Mr.Rein guru paling baik secara non-akademik, yang paling care siswanya. Pelajaran Inggrisnya sendiri sih kurang berkesan 😦 tapi tetep bagus.

P.Rudi (B.Indonesia), P.Boyke (PKn), P.Helly (PE). Tiga guru ini punya kesamaan, sama-sama cukup gokil. Walaupun dalam kasus P.Rudi beda sendiri: gokil dengan memaksakan EYD yang benar di setiap saat 😛 P.Boyke sering cerita dan selalu bersemangat, dan P.Helly rasanya cukup jelas kerennya.

Guru-guru yang lain, walaupun kalian ga buat kesan yang terlalu besar, tapi kalian semua tetap luar biasa.

Well, selesai sudah. 12 tahun (walaupun beberapa temen cuma ketemu 6/9 tahun). 12 tahun yang luar biasa dalam hidup. Mungkin aku tidak akan menemukan lagi 12 tahun yang begitu berwarna seperti saat ini.

Thank you all, my dearest friends (even if you don’t consider me your friend). Till we meet again.

Rants of Inconsistency

There are just too much of them.

English. Hopefully self-explanatory. Who on earth made irregular verbs and overloaded the words “get”, “set”, “make”, “put”, and several others to the ridiculous point of 50 meanings. On a tangential note, who made the lack of singular unknown-gender pronoun. (Or is it “it” for humans of unknown gender?) Oh wait, there’s also this stupid genders of words. As in “player” is usually female (I think; if false, just change accordingly), so if you call “That player is so smart that [pronoun] won ten times in a row”, you’re supposed to use “she”.

Time. Also hopefully self-explanatory. 365 days aren’t supposed to be divided to 12 months, and leap seconds and 29 February shouldn’t exist at all. If I’m used to it, I might say that today is 2014-269. (Year 2014 day 269; remember that I remove leap days so this is 488 days after 26 May. If I do my computations correctly.) Also, to a lesser extent, the number of hours in a day and the number of minutes in an hour should be equal, so that computing times is as easy as handling a large base for your numbers.

I may edit this later. Meanwhile, I need to have some decent sleep soon for a test for a scholarship tomorrow in Jakarta, and I should get up at 2. In the morning. Derp.

On another very unrelated note, no one has found the sunken treasure yet. Added a hint.

Puzzle 64: Sunken Treasure

Battleships Put the given fleet to the grid so that no two ships are adjacent. Ships may be rotated, but not reflected. Ships may not be placed on blue squares (seas), and if there is a ship segment in the grid, it must be occupied by the exact same segment (same shape and orientation).

Difficulty 4.5/10 • Target times 01:00 02:30 07:30 20:00
Solution PNG (not uploaded)PDF (not uploaded)

Puzzle 64: Battleships

Puzzle 64: Sunken Treasure
Battleships

E-mail me the treasure (4-letter word) to get a free puzzle request (of reasonable size, aka 10×10 for the usual genres that I post). Don’t spam me. Only 5 requests offered.

Hint: There are two words, or to be precise two 4-character strings. One is supposed to be a check whether you are in the right track (if you find it and it makes sense, you’re in the right track; the treasure is the other one).

Meanwhile, this might probably be the last puzzle for a while, while I’m going to fix all previous puzzle posts to follow the current template.

EDITS:

Hint 1: You don’t need to solve the puzzle in order to find the treasure.