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Today I'm getting 10000 days old!

To celebrate this fact, I release a new BD puzzle for all of you to tease your brains with...

You can play this puzzle in 2 "levels" - whether you directly use the help of the maps on my site (or in your memory ) or not.

Cheers!!




Here comes the puzzle:

Arno has recently played 5 Boulder Dash caves. Find out which ones.
- All caves are made by different authors: Peter Liepa, Sendy, RTADash, Falcon Soft and Don Pedro.
- All caves have a different titanium wall color: yellow, red, blue, orange and green.
- All caves have a different time limit (on level 1): 40, 80, 120, 160 and 200 seconds.
- All caves require a different amount of diamonds (on level 1): 15, 20, 50, 75 and 99.

Some hints:
- Don Pedro's cave requires more diamonds than Peter Liepa's cave, but less diamonds than RTADash's cave.
- The orange cave, having 80 seconds of time, was not created by Falcon Soft or Don Pedro, and requires more than 15 diamonds.
- RTADash's cave does not have the highest time limit, and is not surrounded by a green or an orange titan wall.
- Sendy made the red cave. This cave gives the player 120 seconds less han the blue cave, which requires 20 diamonds.
- At least one of the 5 "caves" is actually an intermission!

Good luck!

*calculating**calculating* Oh, you're a St Nicholas child!
*check your homepage* Yes, you are! Congrats to your 10000th!

Arno wrote:Today I'm getting 10000 days old!

Man you don't look a day over 9998!

Happy 10000th Day Arno

Thanx John and Dustin!

Dustin wrote:*calculating**calculating* Oh, you're a St Nicholas child!

Yes, born on the 6/12.

Hope I haven't made the puzzle too difficult!

Well, perhaps not too difficult in general, but I think it might cost a lot of time to find out which cave combinations actually exist.

Is it theoretically possible to solve the puzzle without the hints??

Dustin wrote:Is it theoretically possible to solve the puzzle without the hints??

It is of course possible to pick the caves from the maps and then find 5 caves which together match the given properties. This is boring work indeed!

The actual puzzle is a variant of "Einstein's zebra problem". In such a puzzle the hints play an important role. By filling in a scheme you determine which combinations of properties occur, and which are not possible.

Here's another example:

Here's a MS Excel version (with chart) if anyone wants it.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HBA3TPC2

In the meantime, I'll get to work on cracking this also.

One more thing:

Arno wrote:- All caves have a different titanium wall color: yellow, red, blue, orange and gray.
...
- RTADash's cave does not have the highest time limit, and is not surrounded by a green or an orange titan wall.

However, green isn't one of the choices - Is this a trick or a typo?

RTADash wrote:

Arno wrote:- All caves have a different titanium wall color: yellow, red, blue, orange and gray.
...
- RTADash's cave does not have the highest time limit, and is not surrounded by a green or an orange titan wall.

However, green isn't one of the choices - Is this a trick or a typo?

Thx for spotting! Definately a typo - should be 'gray' instead of 'green'.

Well, I've got 4 parts of the solution - but can't find a remaining cave that meets the requirements. I won't spoil it for anyone, but I'll post it in size 0 text, so you can press the quote button and see what I have if you so desire.
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Sendy Dash 2 - Cave (Int) 10: Red Walls, 40 Seconds, 15 Diamonds
Peter Liepa BD2 - Cave D/1: Orange Walls, 80 Seconds, 50 Diamonds
Rory Agsten RTAD6 - Cave 13(K): Yellow Walls, 120 Seconds, 99 Diamonds
FalconSoft Dark Cave - Cave 21: Blue Walls, 160 Seconds, 20 Diamonds
Don Pedro - ???

I can find multiple DP caves that offer 200 seconds, but not one of those requires 75 diamonds (I searched Masters BD also). However, one requires 70 diamonds.
@Arno: can you locate my mistake?
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RTADash wrote: [size=0]
Sendy Dash 2 - Cave (Int) 10: Red Walls, 40 Seconds, 15 Diamonds
Peter Liepa BD2 - Cave D/1: Orange Walls, 80 Seconds, 50 Diamonds
Rory Agsten RTAD6 - Cave 13(K): Yellow Walls, 120 Seconds, 99 Diamonds
FalconSoft Dark Cave - Cave 21: Blue Walls, 160 Seconds, 20 Diamonds
Don Pedro - ???

I can find multiple DP caves that offer 200 seconds, but not one of those requires 75 diamonds (I searched Masters BD also). However, one requires 70 diamonds.
@Arno: can you locate my mistake?
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It's my previous mistake again... I changed 'green' to 'gray', but I should have changed 'gray' to 'green'.
*Getting older*

Now your remaining cave (a green one) does exist.

Man, I found a Grey Zebra and now you tell me it's suppose to be Green

Sets out on another Safari looking for Einstein's Green Zebra

Now I have the solution (press quote if you want to see it)
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Sendy, Dash 2 - Cave (Int) 10: Red Walls, 40 Seconds, 15 Diamonds
Peter Liepa, BD2 - Cave D/1: Orange Walls, 80 Seconds, 50 Diamonds
Rory Agsten, RTAD6 - Cave 13(K): Yellow Walls, 120 Seconds, 99 Diamonds
FalconSoft, Dark Cave - Cave 21: Blue Walls, 160 Seconds, 20 Diamonds
Don Pedro, BD7 - Cave M/1: Green Walls, 200 Seconds, 75 Diamonds
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RTADash wrote:Now I have the solution (press quote if you want to see it)
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Sendy, Dash 2 - Cave (Int) 10: Red Walls, 40 Seconds, 15 Diamonds
Peter Liepa, BD2 - Cave D/1: Orange Walls, 80 Seconds, 50 Diamonds
Rory Agsten, RTAD6 - Cave 13(K): Yellow Walls, 120 Seconds, 99 Diamonds
FalconSoft, Dark Cave - Cave 21: Blue Walls, 160 Seconds, 20 Diamonds
Don Pedro, BD7 - Cave M/1: Green Walls, 200 Seconds, 75 Diamonds
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Well done!