Solutions to puzzles

From HexWiki
Revision as of 00:18, 28 September 2007 by Roland Illig (Talk | contribs)

Jump to: navigation, search

Puzzle 1

abcdefghijk12345678910111

No matter what Red does, Blue can connect via either g5 or g8. Both blue stones at the right are connected to the right (see the Strategy guide for details). The stone at d8 is connected to the left because of the ladder breaker at c2.

Puzzle 2

Puzzle 3

Puzzle 4

Puzzle 5

Puzzle 7

The unique winning first move is Red c3! (e2 is defeated by e3, d3 is defeated by e1, e3 is defeated by e2, and b4 is defeated by d3).

abcdef1234561

The following seem like horizontal's (Blue's) best tries from the above position.

1. d2 e2 2. d5 c5 3. d4 b3 4. c4 a5
1. d3 b3 2. b5 e3
1. e1 d2 2. d1 d1 3. c4 b3 4. e3 a5 or 4. b5 e3
........ .... 2. c4 b3 3. c5 e3 4. e4 f3 5. e6 d5
1. d5 b3 2. d2 b2 3. c4 a5 4. a6 c5 5. b5 e3 6. d5 f5
........ .... ........ .... 3. b5 c5 4. c4 e3
........ .... ........ .... 3. b6 a6 4. b4 c5 5. c4 e3 6. e6 d4
1. c4 e3 2. e2 b3 3. d3 a5
1. b5 d4 2. d3 f2 3. f1 d2 4. c4 e2 5. e4 e3 6. c5 e5
........ .... 2. e1 d2 3. d1 f1 4. e2 f2...
1. b4 d2 2. d5 c5 3. c4 e3 4. d4 e5