Comments on Puzzle #3891: Happy Halloween!
By Sunset Smiley (sunsetsmiley)
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#1: Jane Doe (telly) on Oct 28, 2008
Have a great 31st! :)#2: paul dahmer (paul) on Oct 28, 2008
hard one - but great to have another puzzle that requires no guessing - very nice.#3: Jan Wolter (jan) on Oct 29, 2008 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#4: Jan Wolter (jan) on Oct 29, 2008 [HINT]
Actually, I'm not sure the term "amortization argument" is used in the way I used it in the previous post by anyone except computer scientists analyzing algorithms. I should call it something else.#5: Jan Wolter (jan) on Oct 29, 2008 [HINT]
Though this is the first time I actually used that counting trick, I think it might be more generally useful, so I added it to the "Advanced Puzzle Solving Techniques" page. I called it "Summing".#6: Byrdie (byrdie) on Sep 4, 2010 [HINT]
Mostly color solving for me but I used what I call extended smile logic in a couple places and it all work out.#7: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Feb 15, 2013 [SPOILER]
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