With respect but I was trying to follow the logic, thinking that the numbers marked must have the same amount of connections but it went much more varied than that, like "putting things in places because they had nowhere else to go".......I got more than a little lost. I have just bought a puzzle book and am in the process of learning all 14 different puzzles to keep my brain working, so I need to understand how these things work.
Hi timenow - yes that is right, the number of connections drawn between each circle matches the number shown in that circle. So a circle containing a 3 must end up with three connections (bridges) coming out of it to other circles (islands) in the grid, with a maximum of two bridges between any pair of islands. Does that help? In terms of the 'nowhere else to go' that is just using a simple piece of logic to make further connections. For instance if you have a 2 island in the corner that can only join to two other islands, containing 1 and 3 respectively, we know it must have at least one connection to the 3 island since the maximum it could have with the 1 island is 1, leaving one still to be placed: so it either has one or two connections to the 3 which means it must have at least one since there is nowhere else to go. Does that help?
Thank you 🙏🏻
Hope it was useful, despite the quality of the video not being the best!
Thanks!! This video really helped me to understand this puzzle :)
Great to hear you found the video helpful Elena, thanks for the feedback :)
With respect but I was trying to follow the logic, thinking that the numbers marked must have the same amount of connections but it went much more varied than that, like "putting things in places because they had nowhere else to go".......I got more than a little lost. I have just bought a puzzle book and am in the process of learning all 14 different puzzles to keep my brain working, so I need to understand how these things work.
Hi timenow - yes that is right, the number of connections drawn between each circle matches the number shown in that circle. So a circle containing a 3 must end up with three connections (bridges) coming out of it to other circles (islands) in the grid, with a maximum of two bridges between any pair of islands. Does that help? In terms of the 'nowhere else to go' that is just using a simple piece of logic to make further connections. For instance if you have a 2 island in the corner that can only join to two other islands, containing 1 and 3 respectively, we know it must have at least one connection to the 3 island since the maximum it could have with the 1 island is 1, leaving one still to be placed: so it either has one or two connections to the 3 which means it must have at least one since there is nowhere else to go. Does that help?