Ah ok! Thanks for the tip!
everything can be solved by possibility, if you can find a way to calculate it
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solved manually too, my understanding of this puzzle is a question of possibility, i catagorized the matrix in 3 levels, highly possible, possible, and less possible, then deduct from the highest possible options to the least possible options. i think if you use program to calculalte this puzzle is probably going to be the same logic
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I just joined. Ive never seen any of these puzzles before and am confused about why I can’t slide the thermometer on my phone. Then even more confusing is the print options. Is this a puzzle that i have to print out on paper, then write code to solve it? Seems like the ovaltine decoder from “A Christmas Story” 
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You don’t need to get a print out. I myself just downloaded the colored image of the puzzle in my phone image gallery and solved most of it manually on my phone by using the strategy almost like what @wqx0073 described. Strategy I used is to first look for the most obvious, marked them either green for “fill” and/or red for “no-fill”, and then using what I marked, I progressed further.
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Interesting. So when people reply with the solution, everyone can just do the same thing. So how do you win If the solution is posted?
Haha, there is no guarantee that a particular participant will win. Solving a puzzle makes you earn points for a lucky draw. You can check the points for each puzzle in the T&C page of this competition. Yes, it’s a lucky draw. I am just solving the puzzles for fun and also to learn puzzle solving. I am enjoying the puzzles.
However, the “PROBABILITY” of someone winning depends on how many puzzles he/she has solved.
I think I should be happy with the Rapyd Developer Swag Kit they sent me, which I may receive today going by the Fedex tracking.
Ohh cool. I thought this was a search for great developers and the puzzles/prize was just a way to get us involved. The prize may be real, like everyone gets a t-shirt but I dont think anyone is going to space. Wdyt?
T-shirt, that I got. Haven’t received it yet. It’s still in transit.
If by space, you mean where you’ll feel weightlessness like what astronauts feel, then you are right. Technically speaking, no one participating for grand prize of “space flight” would go that far from earth’s surface. Space Perpective, the company that handles these flights and charges about $130,000 per ticket will take a paying customer to an apogee point 100,000 ft above earth using a special balloon. At that point, you get a “perspective” of being in space, but if I am right, you won’t feel weightless at that height. But you’ll surely get a spectacular view of the earth’s surface and get to see the curvature of earth.
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Hi @Daniel_Vaynshteyn ,there is more than 1 with to solve it with code,
One approach that i prefer and you may consider is to encode the puzzle to boolean constrains (cnf) and then use a sat solver to solve it.
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Like @MusaddiqueAli said I also think it could be solved by making a simple program. Thrilled to see @ocp1000 already done so! I’ll attempt it later today too.
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Well done!! you may take the challenge and prize as motivation to learn to code
I found it comfortable to both print it in order to write on it what i need like to give number to each space and such, then to solve it by code.
I got exactly to the same partial solution. It seems like just applying simple logic rules based on one row/column can’t get you further.
Edit: Finally found the missing logic rule that helped me solve the whole puzzle: Look at the column marked with 1. There are multiple thermometers going through it, only one of them will still be filled after crossing that column. What does that mean for the neighboring columns? From this rule you can fill in much of the neighboring columns and then from there use simple logic rules to fill out (almost) the whole square. (You might have to use this multi-column/row rule again for the whole square.)
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Ive actually tried to learn to code before but unfortunately i am not very good at it ive watched YouTube videos and its too confusing for me i would probably need to take an actual class to learn ive always wanted to make in game characters and cosmetics but the best ive done is a weird looking dolphin also have been interested in learning so i could make 3d resin printed characters my sister went to college to code but said that the kind of code i want to learn is a bit different than what she does i ended up going to college for finance and kind of regret it
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How would you describe the total filled squares in each row and column using CNF? that seems fairly complicated
Can you tell me what algorithm you used? my attempt leads to a live lock
Solved took me 10 min with dry erase board.
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Although I have solved this manually, I’d still like to know the code logic that anyone used to solve this, after this puzzle expires.
Even the algorithm steps would be enough, I can try to code it myself.