2019-06-01_Games_World_of_Puzzles

56 GAMES WORLD^ OF PUZZLES^ | june 2019

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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

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

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