Re: [piecepack] Re: The IVxVI Puzzle

[Ed Thorn <prophesor@...>]

--- James K Droscha <jdroscha@...> wrote:

> > Ed Thorn wrote:
> > > The previous puzzle featured a 4x6 square grid
> where
> > > no tile had any neighbor of its own suit.


> This statement refers to the IVxVI Puzzle, but
> incompletely states 
> its requirements.  Are we to assume that this new
> puzzle (which we 
> can call the H3 Puzzle) must also comply with the
> IVxVI Puzzle's 
> restriction on values?  (Otherwise, it devolves into
> a map-coloring 
> problem, which would not fit the desire for a more
> challenging 
> puzzle.)

It is in any case a map-coloring puzzle, only with
possibly two dimensions of 'color'.  And in my initial
thinking of the overall puzzle, it seemed to me the
value-based requirement added little.  I suppose on
the issue of challenge, I have failed.

> > Any particular shape of grid?
> 
> I assume the good profesor, when he suggests a
> "hexagonal grid", 
> refers not only to the relationship of the pieces to
> each other, but 
> also to the completed shape of the puzzle.  Correct?

Yes, that is correct.