| Seeding Problems |
| These questions are designed for those teams that have
committed to playing in Amnesia. Please submit the solutions to the
following problems. We will review your solutions and score them by
accuracy. The more right you get, the higher the score. Your score will
then be compared with other team scores, so do as well as you can. Submit
as often as you want. However, we will only consider your last
submission. Let me reiterate. These questions do not affect your
selection to The Game.
|
| Word Ladder |
- Find the smallest word ladder that covers all the letters of the
alphabet. Restrictions: In consecutive "rungs" you can not change the
same character location. Words must be found in Second
Collegiate American Heritage Dictionary. No humongous words, i.e., > 8
letters
If you cannot cover all 26 letters, cover as many as you can.
Tie-breaker: Longest string of alphabetically ordered changes:
|
Ex: MACE=>MICE=>MILE=>TILE=>TIRE. The tie breaker
value = #(i, l, t) = 3
Letters covered = 8 |
|
| Number Weave |
- This puzzle can be found in pdf
format. The directions are on the page. To help you out a little, don't
even bother if you can't get higher than 810. Rumor has it the high score
right now is easily in the 4 digits.
Note: By weave, we do not restrict to a strict over under over under over
pattern, or vice versa. You could submit a solution with all the
horizontal strips showing on top, and the vertical strips showing on the
bottom. As always, email us if you are still unclear.
|
Submission: Tape up your solution so that we have a two sided
5x5 grid.
|
| Pipe Cubes |
- Remember Pipe Dream? Well, now there's a new twist. Check
it out in PDF.
The scoring for the pipe cube problem is based on the number of faces your
loop traverses, and not the actual length of the path. Any face (of the
little cubes) you traverse twice will be counted twice in your score. In
other words, your answer shouldn't need to be expressed in terms of
pi...
You better be able to get higher than 4.
|
Submission: See directions for the puzzle
|
