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80 Challenging Tatami Puzzles

by Alejandro Erickson.http://tomokupuzzle.com

Copyright c⇥ by Alejandro Erickson, 2011.ISBN 978-0-9868121-0-1

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Quickstart Guide

Tatami mats are traditional Japanese floor mats ( , , ). In tearooms, it is unlucky to have the corners of four mats touching atone point. That is, a “lucky” layout has no “+”-shapes formed bythe lines where mats meet each other.

Unlucky LuckyHas “+”s. Has no “+”s.

Mats are shown in the Tomoku puzzle beside their containing col-umn or below their containing row. Notice that a appears in both

a row and column. You must check both places before placing a .The order of the mats within each row and column does not matter.

Tomoku Puzzle. Lucky Solution.The object of the Tomoku puzzle game is to find a lucky layoutusing the mats shown in the rows and columns of the puzzle.

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A appears in its A stays in A stays inrow and column. its row. its column.

Are you ready for your first challenge? Try some of the smallergrids first. Come back later and read the tutorial for a few extratips.

Tutorial

To fill in a puzzle, use a short line to represent a or and a dotto represent a . Cross off mats you have used in the arrangement.To place a you must use one from both a row and a column.

Adding a uses one in botha row and a column.

A may only be placed onthe dark gray squares.

Your correct solution will almost always be the one shown in thebook. If it is not, just check that you have used the right numberof mats from each row and column and that your arrangement is

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“lucky”.

Adding a verticalmat.

Adding ahorizontal mat. Completed puzzle.

Try to place mats which force the placement of others. For example,if the corners of two mats meet at a grid intersection, then either a

or a must be placed at that intersection to avoid an unlucky“+”. Another strategy is to place the mats first.Visit http://tomokupuzzle.com for even more tips and the Tomokuweb game.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Donald Knuth, Frank Ruskey, Martín Matamala,and Cliff Stoll. Their work and their words inspired me to createthis puzzle book and the Tomoku web game. I also thank MichaelLa Croix, a friend and diagrams expert, who gave valuable adviceon early renditions of the puzzles.

Tomoku was conceived in a conversation between Martín Mata-mala and myself over coffee in Plaza Sotomayor in Valparaíso,Chile, when he asked how hard it is to recover a tatami tilingfrom its tomographic projections.

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Puzzle 1

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Puzzle 5

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Puzzle 9

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