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一些 F 方块

Some F Squares

专题
Discrete Math / 离散数学
难度
L6

题目详情

Place some non-overlapping “F”-shaped pentominos into the grid. Pentominos can be rotated, reflected, and enlarged. Place a 1 inside each square in an unenlarged pentomino. For a pentomino that has been enlarged by a factor of N > 1, place an N inside each square. The sum of the numbered squares inside each outlined region must be the same. A number outside the grid represents the sum of all numbered squares in the corresponding row or column of the completed grid.

Once completed, you can submit as your answer the product of the areas of the connected groups of orthogonally adjacent empty squares in the grid.

解析


Original Explanation

For this, our 10th anniversary puzzle1, solvers were tasked with smooshing F-pentominos of various sizes into an empty grid. The unique arranement that satisfies the row-, column- and region-sum constraints is shown above. The product of the areas of the leftover regions is 346,816,512.

Congrats to this month’s solvers!

  1. Our first puzzle. ↩