I wrote a few words on Jack in the funeral guestbook, I will paste them here. Zachary (or Jack, as I knew him) was the special kind of brilliant gifted genius that I've met only very rarely. He was exceptionally multitalented-in addition to being a well-known puzzle constructor, he also scored highly in math competitions, programming competitions, and competitive puzzle solving. Jack won the US puzzle championship last year, and was on his way to a top score in the WPF Grand Prix, which is a grueling global competition that is pretty much the epitome of competitive puzzle solving. He scored top 5 finishes in 2 of the first 3 rounds of the 2023 season. I'm 100% sure he hadn't peaked yet and would be among the greatest competitive puzzlers had he kept going. I will miss seeing him in the playoffs and had looked forward to finally meeting him in person. Jack also finished the 2022 Galactic Puzzle Hunt while working completely solo. GPH is a contest designed for teams of 10 people! Most teams (including mine) never finish at all. I first met Jack around December 2018 during a puzzler Secret Santa event. Jack was assigned me, which meant he had to make me a secret holiday puzzle. He ended up making me a set of 15 logic puzzles! They were brilliant puzzles of course, but more brilliant was the fact that Jack managed to make 5 original hybrids that merged puzzle rules themed after the letters in my name. That kind of creativity was Jack's bread and butter, and it found itself into everything he made. It was like it was easy for him. Jack and I shared many interesting conversations about puzzle games and puzzle design, particularly on the topic of algorithms for puzzle creation and puzzle solving. I once made an off-handed comment that somebody should make a puzzle game that's interesting for the same reason that string and wire puzzles are interesting. Jack then went a made a game (called "proof-of-equivalence-via-explicit-construction-of-an-ambient-isotopy") that was, unexpectedly, a much more brilliant and elegant implementation of that idea than I could have imagined. Jack was unafraid of taking crazy ideas and running with them. My favourite game of Jack's was Enigmash, a puzzlescript game with a complex mashup of rules that you'd be crazy to implement in puzzlescript, yet somehow, Jack pulled it off. I remember recommending Enigmash to Jon from Thekla, then watching Jon stream the game and comment about how smart it was. It feels surreal that Jack's work from his time at Thekla will be published post-humously. In a bittersweet and strange way, I am perhaps a bit grateful that there are a few more of Jack's amazing puzzles to come. When you do a lot of somebody's puzzles, you start to feel like you know their mind a little. Jack's mind was just so incredibly clever and witty, and he loved sharing that cleverness and wit with others. He will be missed.

Jack Lance (or as I knew him, Zach) was my closest friend throughout college, and I'd like to believe that I was his too. Thank you for making this video, I really appreciate seeing the side of him that those in the puzzle community got to witness. It is easy to see from all of the puzzles he left behind how special his mind was, but what's harder to capture is his innate spirit to explore and the effect he had on people. Whether his audience was thousands on Twitter or just a single friend, his brilliance, effort, and desire to delight stayed the same. He taught himself to "speak in reverse" such that if recorded and played backwards, it would playback as a normal sentence. He set up an elaborate escape room in his sophomore dorm that was only experienced a single time by me and two friends. I remember practicing for hours and analyzing spectrograms with him because he wanted to see if he could learn to recognize which letter of the alphabet was being written on a whiteboard while blindfolded, just from the sounds the marker made. He spent hours speedrunning a small game our friend made, crafting routes using insane glitches he found. He wanted to get the "checkers world record", so he came up with the shortest possible checkers game and we memorized and practiced it. He spent 12 hours straight playing a mindless Candy Crush clone Facebook game to surpass my sister's level, just because it was the last thing any of us expected him to do. He was a world-class competitor in mathematics and programming competitions, despite spending a fraction of the the time that others at his level did on those specifically. We won a cup-stacking competition together. He was down to do anything at 110% and find his own joy in it. I've joined the most random bingo tournaments, trivia teams, scavenger hunts, public speaking events, in-person competitions, etc that I never would have otherwise, just because he was always looking for the uniqueness in every experience and I had the honor of tagging along with him. He was incredibly humble about his abilities, never drawing attention to the fact that it was HIM who created what he did, but only his own awe at the beauty of the thing itself, like it was there all along waiting to be discovered. His mind moved so fast, even just in raw calculation speed and working memory, that I can't imagine how the rest of us looked to him. But despite this, he was so incredibly humble and never made a single person feel less than himself. I've met a few geniuses, and he was a league beyond that threshold. He lived so much in what time he had, but he and the world deserved so much more. Rest in peace Zach.

@michaelzomsuv3631

10 ай бұрын

If you were his close friend, you must know what happened to him?

That AN EYEPATCHED PIRATE / THE PAIRED-EYE CAPTAIN anagram joke is absolutely brilliant. I didn't know Jack but it sounds like a great mind has left the world way too early. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

Jack made so many excellent puzzles and games, it's really sad and shocking, RIP... this star battle had an incredibly funny presentation when it was first posted, which was a static image with a rules popup covering up the entire board except for the edges. 10/10

@IcelyPuzzles

Жыл бұрын

not sure if links are allowed (I know they often can be auto moderated) but it looked like this i.imgur.com/Xn9UkeI.png

@Alex_Meadows

Жыл бұрын

@@IcelyPuzzles Hah, very good!

@aquaquartz

Жыл бұрын

star battle advanced

@curlywurlycraig

3 ай бұрын

A very cool "theme" of Jack's puzzles is at first thinking some piece of information is missing, or there is a bug in the software (especially with PuzzleScript) but there is always enough. When you learn to trust it, the puzzles become very delightful. My favourite is "I'm too far gone", presenting you with level 25 immediately. I won't spoil it.

Reading his obituary: “He graduated from U of Rochester, 2019, working first at Google, then moving on to his ideal job of designing logic puzzle games for Thekla, Inc”. That would be well after Thekla released The Witness, but hopefully some of Jack’s puzzles will live on in Thekla’s next (so far mysterious) game, and we’ll get to experience them in some amazing way. RIP to a far too young man who I’m only now learning about.

@davegoesthedistance

Жыл бұрын

He wrote a fiendishly brilliant set of puzzles called From Muddled to Clean that are very Witness-like and come highly recommended.

@ivanbraidi

Жыл бұрын

He was hired after Jon saw his game Enigmash, and he was working on the new Sokoban game that Jon's creating. So sad.

@39:41 "I'm not sure how to properly express my admiration for that puzzle. That is absolutely brilliant. It is quite clearly genius to be able to construct that. It is just...[chuckle in disbelief?] it's almost magical. It is almost magical that that has a unique solution and that it's findable so prettily and that you can keep combining the regions up together [sigh and head shake]. What a loss. So that's Jack Lance, taken from the world too young. And what an absolute crying shame. And I hope this video goes a tiny way to paying tribute to a truly remarkable person." I think you did a damn good job at expressing your admiration for him, and I guess the puzzle, and I've nearly cried several times during this transcription. If this was the only thing he ever did and this was the only remembrance he had, he'd have a better obituary than most.

A useful shortcut is to observe that if there are N regions and 2N-2 line endings on the perimeter of the grid, the puzzle will be two-colorable, each region boundary will connect two of the line endings, with no region boundaries intersecting each other nor the edge of the grid anywhere else. Since there are ten regions and eighteen line endings, that makes it possible to immediately two-color the edge of the grid. I got stuck with some of the Star Battle inferences, but quickly recognized how many regions had to merge, with logic much like the anti-checkerboard logic in Yin Yang puzzles.

@CrackingTheCryptic

Жыл бұрын

One of the cleverest comments I've seen. It would have taken me a long time to think of it this way.

I highly, highly recommend checking out the links in the description which showcase more of Jack's brilliance. Rest in peace.

Sadly, I had never heard of Jack until this video, but he sounds like a prodigious mind, and a very sad loss.

It's disheartening to learn about someone so clever and so brilliant only after the fact (Simon is absolutely right, those tweets are sheer genius). Truly a loss, would've been a joy to see what more he would've brought to the puzzle solving world... hopefully his family and friends are holding up.

rip jack lance, i've always looked up to you, your puzzles, your wordplays, and your observations. truly a brilliant mind gone way too soon...

Jack’s P.I. Hunt 5 and P.I. Hunt 8 are two of my favorite puzzle modules ever. So clever, so unique. Difficult but rewarding. Jack was a wealth of creativity. It’s so sad that he’s gone.

I really miss this goofball, I still think about him every day. My most fond memory is staying up til 7am with him, playing the game "PANG" on an emulator in some Computer Science lab. His wit and sense of humor constantly left me amazed and often in tears. I miss being able to message him about stupid things. He was easily the smartest and funniest person I knew. And honestly most of the time, his puzzles went over my head. That wouldn't stop me from attempting his many clearly genius ideas and brilliant game concepts, which he seemingly would whip up out of nowhere, as it were nothing. What I do know is how great of a person he was. It sounds cheesy, but he certainly exceeded what it means to be a genius. What I knew him as the most was a great friend. I miss him dearly.

Thank you for solving this puzzle Simon. I've always adored Jack's puzzles, from his devious games to his mind-bending puzzle hunts. He will be dearly missed.

Thank you for this touching peek into the brilliance of Jack's mind. R.I.P. Jack Lance

What a sad loss. I've just been reading through his archive, and there's so much wit and invention in there. I particularly liked his hands/candies/hooks/cookies drawing. I'd post a link, but I don't think KZread allows external links. It sounds like he had more fun in his short life than many experience in a long life. This was a very nice puzzle. Like you, I had a couple of moments of panic, before spotting how it could be unbroken. The ending was very nice, with several regions vying for that last star.

This one was so increadibly fun and smooth. What an incredible puzzle and setter. I'm definetely going to try some other of Jack's puzzles

I will take some time to say I love you to my loved ones tonight. My best to the family of this talented young man. I would be proud to have made such a beautiful puzzle,this young man taken from the earth far too young. My best to this community, I appreciate your comments and support of this channel.

RIP Jack. It sounds like you were an incredible person :(

Thank you for this tribute... I didn't know Jack personally, but I, like many others have always been in complete awe of his genius. His passing has left a huge void not only in the puzzling community but in each of us solvers hearts as well. May he rest in peace ♥️

Rest in peace Jack. That was remarkable, the flow of the single line clues were like magic. Even though the puzzle was done, it wasn't done fully yet. As always the conundrum with what colours to use always amuses me. Great work

The answer to the house puzzle: the most expensive house is the second-tallest, the second-most expensive is the shortest, the middle-priced house is the tallest (and is red), the second-cheapest is the middle-height (and is blue), and the cheapest house is the second-shortest.

Jack has now become one of the people that inspire me, a brilliant genius

At 30:00, once you've identified the 12 remaining candidates for stars, you can deduce their locations without thinking about regions at all. Each of columns 5, 6, 7, and 9 need one star each, and if you put a star in R2C5, R2C6, or R2C7, you can't place stars in the adjacent columns, so you know they're all blank. That leaves R2C9 as the only spot in R2 that can be a star. Now you have 2 stars to place in R3, so they must be in C5 and C7 to space them apart, and then R1C6 gets the final star. The logic in the puzzle is so much fun, a great tribute to the young man.

25 is way to young!! Thoughts to Jack's family and friends.

The sadness of seeing you finish this puzzle and know Jack won’t make any more. Rest in peace.

This puzzle was just lovely, not too difficult but had some good logical steps. When I managed to solve it I realised that it can actually be fully coloured using only two colours, so the solution looks really clean and satisfying

Thank you for telling us about Jack. What a brilliant puzzle.

I've done this puzzle before and yeah, brilliant is definitely the word. So I knew the name Jack Lance but couldn't have possibly guessed that he was as young and multi-talented as he was. RIP.

I kept breaking the puzzle again and again, but it was also a very beautiful construction. I would have enjoyed more of these. RIP Jack.

I never expected to learn about the passing of an old schoolmate through CTC. I knew Jack/Zachary in middle school. He was a year younger than me, so we didn't share any classes, but we were in the Math Club together and he was the most gifted and brilliant young mathematician there. I'm sad to say I didn't attempt to stay in contact after middle school, but now that I'm finding out about what he made of his life, I wish I had made that effort because it seems like he became a truly exceptional person. The world has lost one of its greatest minds with Zachary's passing. Rest in peace.

What a work of art - I am even getting a figure/ground feeling from it. What a sad but beautiful legacy.

Thanks for doing this. 😢

I love starbattle, it's my favourite puzzle. This one was really cool, how xou hadto construct every region.❤

Very nice tribute. I love that you chose a star battle puzzle. It is my favorite genre of pencil puzzle outside of sudoku, and I enjoyed the twist in this one immensely,

I’ve been watching CTC for over 2 years and this is my favourite puzzle. 👍

Usually I'm quite bad at star battle puzzles, but managed to get through this lovely one in 28 minutes (only used yellow for stars and gray for non-stars). RIP Jack.

Just above 20 minutes. That was a brilliant puzzle to play through, good job and rest in peace, Jack

Great tribute from a great channel

Simon, you make puzzle soving look so easy, and I can follow your logic perfectly. So why when I try do I break the puzzle almost immediatley?? Thanks for the channel!

@pedrosaraiva1411

Жыл бұрын

I break this puzzle a lot of times too. So many times that I gave up and saw Simon solve it.

53:03 ... and yes, 25 is *way* too young Wonderful puzzle ... and R.I.P.

Thankyou Simon for a touching tribute

I was super intrigued by the logic puzzle at the start, Jack had a brilliant mind. I think I found the result with the help of a comment that pointed out a very important detail that I missed. Labeling the houses ABCDE in the order mentioned, being A the red one and E the blue one: By size (from shortest to tallest): CDEBA By price (from cheapest to most expensive): DEACB Is this correct? Edit: I wrote the comment before watching Simon solve the star battle. What a superb puzzle! It's absolutely jaw-dropping that this is solvable an in such a logical and surprising way. Bravo, Jack, you'll be missed!

I've no idea who Jack Lance was, but he seemed to be a brilliant mind. I'll admit I usually skip all the pre-solving talk in these videos, but this time I listened with fascination to Simon talking about the genius things Jack had done. Either way, 25 is way too early to leave this world and that is sad.

@39:33 Thank you for outlining the grid.

Rip Jack, he left the world way too early. I didn't know about him, but he must have had a great mind. The solve of this puzzle is great as well, and I thought about his tweet at the start. This puzzle also had excess and owes in it it seems... Anyway, he was way too young and my thoughts are going to his friends and his family

Phenomenal puzzle, RIP Jack

A beautiful tribute!

Great puzzle. RIP

Obviously Jack has been a modern Henry Dudeney, Samuel Loyd or Martin Gardner. What a loss !

Amazing and RIP

It's really terrible for someone to pass away so young. My condolences to Jack's loved ones.

@wanderlustwarrior

Жыл бұрын

Not important, but my time was 1:15:45 with a couple peeks at the video. A great challenge to remember someone by.

Let's Get Cracking: 12:29 What about this video's Top Tier Simarkisms?! Maverick: 1x (39:27) And how about this video's Simarkisms?! Hang On: 11x (14:45, 15:27, 17:16, 22:14, 23:42, 31:44, 35:19, 36:32, 39:01) Ah: 7x (04:16, 15:27, 27:59, 29:16, 30:21, 31:40, 34:36) Extraordinary: 5x (00:21, 02:09, 02:24, 03:02, 04:59) In Fact: 5x (13:14, 15:51, 26:09, 34:31, 35:39) Obviously: 4x (03:24, 13:03, 14:00, 16:59) Goodness: 3x (06:38, 29:10, 39:01) Lovely: 3x (04:33, 08:40, 31:26) Brilliant: 3x (03:16, 04:18, 39:51) Unbelievable: 3x (34:42, 37:06, 38:58) Cake!: 3x (08:34, 08:36, 08:46) Unique: 3x (03:59, 04:11, 40:02) Clever: 2x (02:32, 02:45) Stuck: 2x (10:53, 17:58) Beautiful: 2x (01:09, 06:21) Shouting: 2x (08:01, 08:10) Whoopsie: 2x (21:18, 27:22) Wow: 2x (32:08, 35:31) What on Earth: 1x (36:09) Break the Puzzle: 1x (15:30) Witty: 1x (02:32) Surely: 1x (23:54) Stunning: 1x (28:07) Jaw-dropping: 1x (05:14) That's Huge: 1x (29:29) Pencil Mark/mark: 1x (17:25) Most popular number(>9), digit and colour this video: Ten (9 mentions) One (45 mentions) Red (50 mentions) Antithesis Battles: Even (3) - Odd (0) Row (17) - Column (11) FAQ: Q1: You missed something! A1: That could very well be the case! Human speech can be hard to understand for computers like me! Point out the ones that I missed and maybe I'll learn! Q2: Can you do this for another channel? A2: I've been thinking about that and wrote some code to make that possible. Let me know which channel you think would be a good fit!

Sad, and a big loss. Amazing puzzle.

27:29 for me. That was such a fantastic puzzle, RIP Jack.

@28:10 "Imagine trying to construct this." For much of the video so far, I've been wondering if it's actually possible to construct this. What I mean is I was thinking this felt more like a discovery than a construction. But the solve path has been so linear, going going steadily in a counter-clockwise direction around the grid. Every single line seems to affect the grid in order. For instance, once you color r10c8, that'll force purple up which forces green up which pens in red (assuming you've discovered orange needs to move to the right 1) making green=red and the green/red region still doesn't have any blinking stars yet. This is definitely an intentional construction and not a discovery. ... okay, that's not where you went next, but I had a feeling light green was going to turn blue for a long while now. Okay, I haven't actually played to the point where you pick a color (I'm at 28:33 atm), but I usually have a good idea which color you're going to choose. In fact, I'm going to make a prediction on the green/red. My gut instinct says it'll be red probably because you made that region first (you can't really know why gut instincts, that's subconscious), but you really love your flamboyant green and you don't have much of it in the grid. That combined with the fact that you're about to grow the red at the top leads me towards green. And I'm not editing this after I watch it so if I'm wrong, it'll be here for posterity, lol.

@flobiish

Жыл бұрын

I post that and then you start going clockwise. LOL

@flobiish

Жыл бұрын

@33:34 "I'm actually going to make that red region entirely green now because [pause] it pleases me." That pause tells me your initially gut instinct was the same as mine but switched and that switch was probably also subconscious. I think your conscious mind noted the unusual delay in such a simple decision, wanted to explain it but didn't get that information to pass along. I laughed way too long when you said this. You are a precious beautiful mind, Simon.

@flobiish

Жыл бұрын

@36:25 Oh no. I just saw the end of the puzzle (not the end of your solve, but the only path forward from here). r5c8's about to be red. Orange is about to be yellow. Green is about to be blue. I hope you aren't too sad about losing your green. Oh, and second blue is going up to r3c10 but that's not the point of this comment. I bet you're going to think about changing r1c1 to another color, but you're not going to do it. EDIT: @37:02 I'll edit to not here that I didn't do a count in the new green/blue region which you spotted while I was trying to figure out your next color decision. So...do we recolor region 1? It seems the optimal solution.

@flobiish

Жыл бұрын

I'm not always right. It's a fun side game though.

Wow! Very sad indeed! What a loss!

This is a really fun puzzle, tricky but not cruel.

How tragic. RIP

Finkle is Einhorn! Great puzzle!

38:55, got stuck a few times, took a few peaks at the solution, it was always because of me coloring and assuming two regions had to be different because the colors I chose weren't the same.

@flatfingertuning727

Жыл бұрын

From the number of line endings and regions, one can tell that anyplace three puzzles would seem to join, two must merge.

He will be remembered

For a moment, I wondered if Green could have been part of Blue or Yellow as well. Then I realized it couldn't because then you'd have a pointless wall in the middle of a region, and walls don't belong inside the regions, only on the parameters.

There should be a way of checking solutions to star battle puzzles

25 is so young. Not fair at all, RIP sir. EDIT: what a puzzle that was. 😵‍💫

RIP Jack.

RIP Jack Lance

30:40 for me. RIP Jack.

Does anybody remember when Merle Reagle passed? I think this is how Simon feels. Yes, a loss.

Anyone knows what happened to him? So sad.

What was the cause of death?

Surely the Solve Counter is off? It says only 22 solves in 11.6 days to date

😢

Are Simon puzzles in generall harder that the ones Mark do ? I would say normally in 2 videos of Mark I can do at least 1 all by myself and I dont remember have a really long streak of Mark puzzles that I cant do alone. But with Simon ones I would say that I need at least 4 puzzles to do 1 all alone. Am I right or maybe by chance I am often more inspired when I solve Mark ones?

@SirJefferE

Жыл бұрын

I don't think the puzzles Simon does are harder, but I do think he tends to get the more novel rulesets, while Marks are usually (but by no means exclusively) "standard" Sudoku variants.

@MichaelLamparty

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say that the puzzles Simon does are harder, but rather more esoteric. They require more "out of the box" thinking, but once you find the break-in or the "magic" the difficulty diminishes quickly.

@MichaelLamparty

Жыл бұрын

I guess I should add, just because it only takes Mark 30 or 45 minutes to do a puzzle doesn't in any way mean that it is an approachable puzzle for most people. I do several "insane. evil, extremally hard" sudoku puzzles every day, but yet I can not match Mark's times on any puzzle. He has this gift, where he can basically see the whole puzzle and just know which cells are restricted. Unlike me who has to look at each cell over and over again. I like the novelty that the puzzles that Simon does bring to the channel but in fact I think Mark's videos have made me a much better solver over the last three years I have been watching the two of them. ( No offence intended Simon ( I even used the OED spelling there))

@pedrosaraiva1411

Жыл бұрын

@@SirJefferE thats true. Simon puzzles often have some rules I never saw and I am not one of those people that can pick on new rules quickly, normally I need some time to get my head around them

@pedrosaraiva1411

Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelLamparty out of the box thinking is really something I need to improve, and thats probably the reason I find Simon puzzles harder . But on other end I often enjoy more to see Simon puzzles being solved because I really like to see Simon out of box thoughs

I really don't get that house logic puzzle, there is always a swiitch on the relation given and blue house is given no relation to anything with it's size while the red house is given no relation to anything with it's price. Writiing it down and trying to plot the relation together I see no way to determine the price and height relation of all the houses (if that's even the goal since that's not stated). Like, all the relation you can conclude work by pair and since there is no influence between the height and prices it's really not helpful. And the hint given is not helpful either and there is no solution. I feel like even if I found a solution I would have no way to even check if it's correct cause I'd have to make a weird logic leap and then just assume my interpretation is right or something. Unless someone is able to point out a way to make sense of that puzzle I don't even see how there can even be a solution. Like, just writing down what the hints tell you and trying to formalize it a bit I end up with that : A) Price = 2-5 ( > B) Size = 1-4 ( B) Price = 1-4 ( C) Price = 1-4 ( Red : Price = 1-5 Size = 2-5 ( > A) Blue : Price = 2-5 (>C) Size = 1-5 There is at no point anything that has a relation on a variable with more than one thing. There isn't a relation between things assigned to all the variables on all the houses. And there isn't enough relation between thing to constrain anything eiither (like if I had only 2 house that could fit even one of the extreme on a single variable I could maybe start there but all extreme values have 3 options and the middle value has all 5 there is just nothing constraiining anything). Right now I can only conclude that it's eiither not solvable or the solution involve some wordplay used to obscure the actual goal of the puzzle. Unless I'm really missing something important.

@SirJefferE

Жыл бұрын

I started working on that puzzle before I even got to the puzzle of the day, and came to more or less the same conclusion. I'm guessing you have to make some assumptions about the wordplay - I always preferred straight up logic puzzles because at least I know the rules of those. Edit: Here's a hint I found that points you towards the correct bit of linguistic trickery: "Consider the fact that the word 'the' is used instead of the word 'a'."

@Laezar1

Жыл бұрын

@@SirJefferE Yeah I read the clue and it's not helping. TBH if you have the solution I'd like to just have it cause I just find these wordplay puzzle very frustrating xD I don't mind struggling if I understand what I have to do and it's just difficult. But here it's just frustrating as hell. The only conclusion I can take from that hint is that all the houses cited are different and they all have unique height and price, which is reflected in my chart already but even with that it's just not enough.

@loisflower4993

Жыл бұрын

@@SirJefferE That's a nice hint, helped me get it!

@vfigplays

Жыл бұрын

@@SirJefferE aha! i read that hint before and didnt get it. *only* now it suddenly clicked.

@anaphysik

Жыл бұрын

@@Laezar1 The way to solve the house puzzle does involve slight trickery, but it's almost an anti-gimmick, as the 'trick' is pretty reasonable and still in keeping with normal puzzles of this sort. What you should do is: Note that each "the house" means "the ONLY house" So, for example, "the house[1] that's taller than the house[2]" is noting that only one house ("THE house", not "one of the houses") is taller than house-2 -- and therefore house-1 is the tallest house and house-2 is the second-tallest. The houses are quick to sort after that. For: The only house[1] that's taller than the only house[2] that's more expensive than the only house[3] that's shorter than the only house[4] that's cheaper than the house[5] that's blue is red. the result is: tallest to shortest: 1-2-5-4-3 most-expensive to least: 2-3-1-5-4 (1 is red, 5 is blue)

A useful shortcut is to assume that anytime two regions are forced to touch and both of them are entirely full of X's they must be the same region. Pretty sure if this isn't the case the solution would be ambiguous.

6:35 Can you stop talking , you're reminding me of my father. I agree it's hard

@stevesebzda570

Жыл бұрын

In other words (and in more words), Simon; Even in the beginning, I thought Jack Lance was Jack Palance (an American actor - better in his later years, I thought), [I didn't notice the born date on your effigy] Then when you said "Palanskey" (you made me think of Jack Palance again -- he was getting up in years and it was about time). [And wondering this whole time if a relation between Jack Lance and Jack Palance - father and son, or grandfather and grandson. Actors often have stage names -- and Palanskey could have been it] Then when you mentioned it was difficult talking about, it was there that you reminded me of my father. Glad you had it over soon after that. Because, yes, it's difficult. I agree

"Interesting" choice to use colors to define the regions and the line tool for everything else, instead of the opposite. 🤔