Puzzle Description:

What is Watson?

#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Feb 16, 2011

i dont have a clue what this puzzle is (it looked like colored sperm fighting over an egg haha)
but it was fun to solve (as are most of your puzzles)
i started with color logic on the red then ended up with the green diagonal part in the center
i am still not sure on the solvability of "diagonal logic"
but you can see it will be a diagonal
normally you cant tell which way it will go but in order to get 1 green pixel under the red in column 8 it has to go top left to bottom right which i call "visual color logic" haha

It was man versus computer this week on Jeopardy! Watson the IBM computer was too large to fit behind the lecturn of the answer and question game show so they created an avatar which I've tried to picture for you here. Watson took on two of Jeopardy's greatest champions and soundly defeated them both in a two game match stretched out over the last three days. Very exciting for a Jeopardy wonk like myself.

Check "him" out at...

http://www-943.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/?cn=agus_watson-20100712&cm=k&csr=google&cr=watson_jeopardy&ct=USJWK002&S_TACT=USJWK002&ck=watson_jeopardy&cmp=00000&mkwid=sYgdrUCPT_9199307133_432ub83684

Great representation, Brian. I, too, enjoyed the Jeopardy man vs. machine challenge. I was routing for the guys!

Elementary my Dear Watson.

Good job, Brian. I knew from the title what to expect, but I agree with bugaboo about the sperm, perhaps through a microscope.

I already know what the image is without solving. =D Looks like guessing is required, I'll look at it another time.

I believe I solved it logically with some two-way logic and affirmation logic on the green sperm tail. Watson could still wipe the floor with me on Jeopardy, however.

Up to the point where there is just the green left, look at the 3 clue in row 14. If you try to place it at R14C6-R14C8, this will make it impossible to finish the 2 clue in column 7. So R14C8 is a dot. A little line logic.

Either R13C8 or R15C8 has to be green. This makes it so that either R13C7 or R15C7 has to be green. So in either case, R11C7 will be a dot.

Now look at row 11 and how row 12 will be affected. There are three possible places to put the 1 clue. It will either cause the 2 clue in row 12 to be at R12C3-R12C4, or R12C6 will be a dot. But both of these situations are the same thing. So in every case, R12C3-R12C4 will be green and R12C6 will be dot. The rest solves normally.

Nice puzzle to solve.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

Nice one Brian!

Thank you Jota. Did you watch the show?

I did, I was impressed by the odd choices Watson had to pick from once in a while.

I really thought he would make more wild mistakes. I was at least hoping for a close game.

I just noticed that the puzzle title was written like a Jeopardy clue and the description was in the form of a question. Clever, Brian!

Thank you Joel.

I really wanted to watch the shows but we don't get that channel. Does anyone know if the entire show is on the Internet?

You can watch clips on hulu.com but they of old tournaments (teen, clebrity, etc).

Thanks, Brian

Sarah and others interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XrYaxKBJY&feature=related

Part 2 is a related video. This is Day 3 of 3, the second and final game. They wanted to talk about Watson a bit so played Game 1 over two days.

Thanks for the link Bryan. It was great to watch!

What a fun puzzle! I thought it was very well designed. The logic was tricky but not frustrating, and the image was a nice reward. Clever title/description. Great job, Brian.

Thank you Teresa

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