Puzzle Description:

It's maybe a space racket.

#1: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on Feb 10, 2014

i see a bird :)

50 mp körül volt... R4C1-C3-ra néztem a valószjnűségi változót. Jelentős volt a különbség, tehát nem volt kérdés.
Ez a módszer! :)

You might want to go to Find Puzzles and check out the number of 5 x 5 puzzles. I stopped counting at 375. My math statistics are a bit rusty but it kind of indicates that just about everything that can be done with a 5 x 5 has already been done. The only change to some designs would only be adding or changing colors.:)

a dunce who lost the top of his hat?

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joe, i was discouraged until i noticed that your math is off by a decimal place. 940,000 centuries...which is MUCH more doable ;)

Yup: 944,378 centuries, 60 years, 324 days, 11 hours, 5 minutes and 31 seconds; but that leaves no time off for good behavior.

i'll have my "good behavior" time during the 1.1259 quadrillion seconds i save by skipping the ones that don't have any white in them.

also, i'm glad i'm not the only one that uses 365.25 as my default "year" in calculations :)

No, no, David. Remember that we've already kicked out 99% of the puzzles - presumably for that reason, among others. So no snoozing!

365.25 is certainly close enough. I'm certainly not going to count the leap-day off every 100 years, much less the one that's actually NOT off every 400 years. And don't even consider the countless (and fairly random) leap-seconds added and sometimes subtracted by the Time People.

So... 365.24999?

More like 365.2425
365days/year * 400years = 146000days
146000days + 100leapdays = 146100days
146100days - 4 century leapdays = 146096days
146096days + 1 every-fourth-century leapday = 146097days
146097days / 400years = 365.2425 days/year

And now you've made me do it. And with such a nice decimal, I might even remember it.

oh no

Oh, yes. See what she's done?!? She's gone and added 20 CENTURIES to the time!

944,398.00103936883701569150277885 centuries it will take now.
To break it down, that's 944,398 centuries, 37 days, 23 hours, 5 minutes and 31 seconds.

Wow!

...OR we just adjust how long we spend on each puzzle so that we don't have to spend those extra 20 centuries. that'll free up some time in case we want to do a larger puzzle occasionally.

If you can adjust your time on a 5x5 downward from ONE SECOND each, with no break in between, then I'm very impressed.

i'm sure it's an insignificant adjustment :)

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Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by gator.

It's a special plane to be on when Gator calls you a nerd! ;)

I just ran across this thread and loved it very much!

I think the puzzle looks like a bird, flying upward and to the left. For whatever that's worth.

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