Games World of Puzzles – October 2019

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Figure 3

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These eight puzzles feature a unique blend of logic and art. The numbers are all you need to determine which squares

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The numbers outside each row and column tell you how many groups of black squares there are in that line and, in

order, how many consecutive black squares there are in each group. For example, 4 5 9 2 tells you that there will be four

groups that will contain, in order, 4, 5, 9, and 2 consecutive black squares. The fact that the numbers are separated tells

you that there is at least one empty square between them. (There may also be empty squares at the ends of lines.) The

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squares wide, the sixth and seventh rows each have the number 8. No matter how you place eight consecutive black

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than one number in it. In the sample, the third column contains the numbers 1 6. The single black square and the fol-

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eighth squares of the column will be black (Figure 3). Figure 4 shows the completed picture. ANSWERS, PAGE 78

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