# Thoughts on Puzzle 37: Tidying Up **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [September 21, 2022, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523 "2022-09-21T12:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![woutiekaboutie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/woutiekaboutie/32/17066_2.png) [@woutiekaboutie](https://community.rapyd.net/u/woutiekaboutie)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/21 "2022-09-21T20:07:48Z")
Got to the 3+1 situation, figured i was stuck, then wrote Python code for a bruteforce attempt. While that was still running, analyzing the puzzle more by hand, which resulted in a correct solution before the script finished ---
**Author:** ![xand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de0a6/32.png) [@xand](https://community.rapyd.net/u/xand)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/22 "2022-09-21T21:31:48Z")
when does this one end? ---
**Author:** ![Frederic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Frederic](https://community.rapyd.net/u/Frederic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/23 "2022-09-21T21:36:13Z")
First wrote a program for a LP Solver, like i did it for the last number puzzles too, which however didn’t produce a solution even after 3 hours. Then wrote a simple Python backtracking program which found the solution after 1 second. ---
**Author:** ![mich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@mich](https://community.rapyd.net/u/mich)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/24 "2022-09-21T21:37:20Z")
In just under two and a half hours. ---
**Author:** ![mich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@mich](https://community.rapyd.net/u/mich)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/25 "2022-09-21T21:39:25Z")
I have columns 5-7 filled in and I’m sure about those. Trying to work through and list/eliminate possible permutations for the others. ---
**Author:** ![xand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de0a6/32.png) [@xand](https://community.rapyd.net/u/xand)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/26 "2022-09-21T21:50:40Z")
Made it, just in time, naturally was on my original word list 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MaxPower](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/maxpower/32/20550_2.png) [@MaxPower](https://community.rapyd.net/u/MaxPower)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/27 "2022-09-21T21:53:52Z")
I’m getting more and more frustrated with theses puzzles/with myself. Tried so many approaches and I dont seem to be getting close to the solution. I dont know what you guys mean with going for one of two possible numbers. I still have so many for every spot. And it didnt help to start on the left… ---
**Author:** ![zygopteran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a183cd/32.png) [@zygopteran](https://community.rapyd.net/u/zygopteran)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/28 "2022-09-21T21:56:17Z")
“I have not failed 10,000 times—I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” ~ Thomas Edison ---
**Author:** ![igorgetmeabrain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/igorgetmeabrain/32/14926_2.png) [@igorgetmeabrain](https://community.rapyd.net/u/igorgetmeabrain)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 7:01am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/29 "2022-09-22T07:01:30Z")
With an hour to the deadline last night, I thought I’d cracked it, only to discover that my solution was perfect except for two diagonally touching squares which had the same number. This one defeated me 😭 ---
**Author:** ![mich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@mich](https://community.rapyd.net/u/mich)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/30 "2022-09-22T12:13:14Z")
Yeah, I tried and ended up deciding with a couple hours to go to write a recursive backtracking solver, which I did, watched run for a while, realized that I had neglected to make it iterate column-first, fixed, and… found it declared the puzzle unsolvable, running out of time before I could figure out why and make it work 🫤 ---
**Author:** ![MarcinJ13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@MarcinJ13](https://community.rapyd.net/u/MarcinJ13)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/31 "2022-09-22T13:00:30Z")
My approach was lazy: I removed all the spaces and pucntuation. I have lowercased everything and started eyeballing for anything that looks like a word, but wasn’t in original text. Once I found one word, the category was quite obvious. Then found few more. I picked list of items in this category from internet. For each I have highlighted its first an last letter and got few more hits. From there i was able to guess partial answer which gave me approximate location of words I missed in the text (and few missing letters). The whole process took less than 20 mins. ---
**Author:** ![mich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@mich](https://community.rapyd.net/u/mich)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/32 "2022-09-22T18:17:51Z")
Wrong thread perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![MarcinJ13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@MarcinJ13](https://community.rapyd.net/u/MarcinJ13)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/33 "2022-09-22T23:14:45Z")
Yep. Sorry., Nevermind, 20 chars min. ---
**Author:** ![Yvette7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/yvette7/32/3616_2.png) [@Yvette7](https://community.rapyd.net/u/Yvette7)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/34 "2022-09-23T04:40:59Z")
This was the only puzzled I failed to complete in time. ---
**Author:** ![igorgetmeabrain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/igorgetmeabrain/32/14926_2.png) [@igorgetmeabrain](https://community.rapyd.net/u/igorgetmeabrain)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/35 "2022-09-24T14:12:52Z")
I finally solved this grid by hand… I only wish we’d had a weekend for this one, cos I simply didn’t have the time for it on the day! ---
**Author:** ![JaiinaK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/jaiinak/32/18733_2.png) [@JaiinaK](https://community.rapyd.net/u/JaiinaK)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/36 "2022-09-25T21:01:49Z")
I finally solved it today! 🥳 And I realized that I was stuck on my first try because I had miscalculated one of the column and had therefore written the wrong digit in one of the square 🤦‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![Al72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Al72](https://community.rapyd.net/u/Al72)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 2:46am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/37 "2022-10-08T02:46:44Z")
Now that the contest is over, can someone please tell me the solution to this puzzle? ---
**Author:** ![matej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@matej](https://community.rapyd.net/u/matej)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 8:45am UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/38 "2022-10-08T08:45:26Z")
> [@Al72](#): > > Now that the contest is over, can someone please tell me the solution to this puzzle? > [@matej](#): > > _backtracking is something humans should never ever have to do._ [Brute-forcing C code](https://privatebin.net/?0edb37cfb44b33b6#7jei2s4SvGmGuofz9J3eFPceyRrdkPrkTGojvjuWaCvE), pw to open: “hack the galaxy” (no quotes) ---
**Author:** ![Al72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Al72](https://community.rapyd.net/u/Al72)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/40 "2022-10-08T16:12:02Z")
Using your solution, I came up with the words “with” (for the number 8) and “enea” (for the number 9). I used a different method, and I came up with a lot of possible words. I entered all of them, and the contest website told me that all of them were incorrect. Two of the words I came up with were “with” and “enea”. So, if the correct answer is “with” or “enea”, then the contest website could have had some glitch. ---
**Author:** ![igorgetmeabrain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.rapyd.net/igorgetmeabrain/32/14926_2.png) [@igorgetmeabrain](https://community.rapyd.net/u/igorgetmeabrain)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523/41 "2022-10-08T17:18:36Z")
Since when was ‘enea’ a word? The correct answer for that puzzle was ‘with’. [Previous page](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.rapyd.net/t/thoughts-on-puzzle-37-tidying-up/57523.md?page=3)