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Twenty Four Seven

专题
Discrete Math / 离散数学
难度
L6

题目详情

The grid is incomplete. Place numbers in some of the empty cells above so that in total the grid contains one 1, two 2’s, etc., up to seven 7’s. Furthermore, each row and column must contain exactly 4 numbers which sum to 20. Finally, the numbered cells must form a connected region, but every 2-by-2 subsquare in the completed grid must contain at least one empty cell.

The answer to this puzzle is the product of the areas of the connected groups of orthogonally adjacent empty squares in the completed grid.

解析


Original Explanation

The completed grid is shown above. The product of the areas of the regions of blank squares is 240.

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