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Extra Special Puzzles At Tile Puzzler
Sunday, May 20, 2007
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I decided to take a closer look at what's going on at the Tile Puzzler website - do a little "digging" into the puzzle database too see what interesting things I could find.
Some of the things are interesting only to me (like, there are 153 registered users, and 82.6% of all puzzles were created by anonymous visitors). Others might be interesting to the readers of this blog. And at the end I'll give you a challenging puzzle to look at.
First, would you like to know which puzzle has been solved the most times? It's this one: teeth. Not surprising - it's a Tri Puzzler, and it only has four blocks. And, it is currently at the top of the Easiest Puzzles List. Another fun fact that probably no one but me cares about, but I thought it was interesting that 87.8% of all visitors who started the puzzle finished it.
You might want to compare that with Xandria's Semi Tree puzzle, which until just recently occupied the position of "Most Difficult" puzzle on the site. 9.2% of the people who start that puzzle actually carry through until the end.
Now here's the thing that I found most interesting. In order to be listed as one of the "Hardest" puzzles on the site, a puzzle has to be solved at least five times. Why? Because I didn't want "new" puzzles to show up on that list before plenty of people had a chance to solve them.
But one side effect of that is that there are MANY puzzles which are so hard they never even made it to the minimum required in order to be listed. What is the percentage of attempts-to-solutions for these puzzles?
Well compared to "teeth" at 87.8%, and "Semi Tree" at 9.2%, this one: Free Style Square has a 0.26% solution rate!
Amazing, huh?
So this is your challenge. How many of you can solve this puzzle? I'm curious to see if at least five people can solve this before the week is over. If you solve it, post a comment here to let me know!
Puzzle Challenge: Free Style Square
posted by Douglas Twitchell at
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