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有些人,某个地方

Some Ones, Somewhere

专题
Brainteaser / 脑筋急转弯
难度
L6

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(本月难题的答案 - 可以在这里看到 - 是一个句子。)

(The answer to this month’s puzzle – which can be seen here – is a sentence.)

解析

本月的谜题包括九 图片,排列在网格中。沿网格边缘不规则放置的字母 拼出“瓷砖”和“鹧鸪”。 (小边还有一些额外的瓷砖 一些照片上也有表格,那里发生了什么。)

每张图片都代表 45 x 45 正方形的不完整“鹧鸪瓷砖”。还有那些 沿着顶部和左侧边缘不规则地放置字母?他们变得有些少了 如果用重复的字母填充边界上的空白,则不规则 字符串 ABC….XYZABC…XYZABC…XYZABC…XYZABC…XYZABCDE。

所以:一旦您解决了这九个问题 网格,并找到 1×1 方块(“1”)所在的位置, 您可以为每个字母提取一对字母(坐标)。举个例子,“一个” 左上角的图片位于第 19 行、第 21 列,我们可以将其映射到 (SU)。当我们对所有九个网格进行此映射时,我们得到

SU) (MO) (FC) (UB) (ES) (S) (SQ) (UA) (RE

现在我们只需要把第一张和第七张边桌上的多余瓷砖扔进去即可 图片,我们就有了答案:“立方之和是平方”,这就是 瓷砖证明:-)

附注今年早些时候,我们安装了一个大型定制的 桌面 这个谜题的版本在我们纽约办公室。 (一旦 3025 到来,也许我们会 再做一个……)

恭喜所有能够解码消息的求解者!


Original Explanation

This month’s puzzle comprised nine pictures, arranged in a grid. Irregularly placed letters along the edges of the grid spell out “tiling” and “partridge”. (And there are some extra tiles on the little side table on some of the photos too, what’s going on there.)

Each picture represents an incomplete “partridge tiling” of a 45-by-45 square. And those irregularly placed letters along the top and left edges? They become somewhat less irregular if you fill in the blank spaces along the boundary with the repeated alphabet string ABC….XYZABC…XYZABC…XYZABC…XYZABC…XYZABCDE.

And so: once you solve the nine grids, and find where the 1-by-1 squares – the “ones” – are located, you can extract a pair of letters (coordinates) for each of them. As an example, the “one” in the top-left picture is at the 19th row, 21st column, which we could map to (S, U). When we do this mapping for all nine grids, we get

(S, U) (M, O) (F, C) (U, B) (E, S) (I, S) (S, Q) (U, A) (R, E)

Now we just need to toss in those spare tiles on the side table in the first and seventh pictures, and we have our answer: “the sum of cubes is a square”, which is what the tilings prove :-)



P.S. Earlier this year we installed a large, custom-made tabletop version of this puzzle in our New York office. (And once 3025 rolls around perhaps we’ll make another one…)

Congrats to all the solvers able to decode the message!