Puzzles with numbers and things

[davis_greatest]

Just rejoining this thread. Another one to go with open round 290...

Round 291 Checkmate

While Ronnie is counting the dots on his spoons, Steve Davis is keeping his brain alert and redesigning his chessboard to make it more Interesting. He decides that, instead of the boring black and white pattern, it would look better with some snooker colours.

So, he scrubs out the black squares and then colours in the chessboard in six different patches - coloured in order: yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black.

Each patch is a different shape, bigger than the previous one, and consists of squares of the chessboard connected by one or more edges (not just at a corner).

First, Steve colours in the yellow and green patches wherever he likes. After that, the shape of each patch can be made by sticking together the shapes of the two previous ones (rotations are allowed). For example, sticking together the yellow and green patches forms the shape of the brown one; sticking together the green and brown patches forms the shape of the blue one, etc.

Help Steve colour in his snooker chessboard (all 64 squares must be coloured - click on thumbnail to enlarge).

[davis_greatest]

R291 update - snookersfun has already coloured in Steve's chessboard! Well done!

[abextra]

Round 291 Checkmate -

... these different shapes... does it mean there can't be more than one rectangle?
What if the rectangles are for example 1 x 2 and 2 x 5 squares... are they different enough for Mr. Davis?

[davis_greatest]

Round 291 Checkmate -

... these different shapes... does it mean there can't be more than one rectangle? No it doesn't mean that.
What if the rectangles are for example 1 x 2 and 2 x 5 squares... are they different enough for Mr. Davis? Yes

There could be more than one rectangle - "different shapes" here just means that they are not identical in size & shape. So, even two squares would be allowed, but in that case they must be different sizes.

[abextra]

Very good!

Check your inbox... in the morning... Good night!

[davis_greatest]

So, round 291 also solved by abextra! Well done! abextra did it in 2 different ways - one extremely simple pattern, and one extremely complicated - amazing!

Will leave open for a little while longer, and then ask for the very pretty pictures to be put up on the thread.

[April madness]

next round for the colourblind, please

[davis_greatest]

next round for the colourblind, please

OK... you can fill in the chessboard with fruit.

Meanwhile, Monique has also given a solution to round 291!

So, snookersfun, abextra and Monique - and anyone else who may care to - pictures on the thread please....

[April madness]

OK... you can fill in the chessboard with fruit.

Meanwhile, Monique has also given a solution to round 291!

So, snookersfun, abextra and Monique - and anyone else who may care to - pictures on the thread please....

Me? I'm not colourblind, I'm just mental And I have no fruits...

[snookersfun]

that snooker board:
chess.GIF

btw. while I am here, no answers to those spoons yet

[davis_greatest]

that snooker board:
[ATTACH]970[/ATTACH]

btw. while I am here, no answers to those spoons yet

Thanks snookersfun! We'll work on the spoons.

abextra and Monique, please put up your pictures too.

Meanwhile...

Round 292 - Bigger Chess

This is just the same as round 291, except now with a 10 x 10 chessboard. So I won't write it all out again. Find how to colour the 10 x 10 chessboard. Rotating or flipping shapes before sticking them together (e.g. sticking together yellow and green to make brown, etc) is allowed.

PS If anyone can put up a blank 10 x 10 grid, that would be great! I can't seem to paste one at the moment.

[abextra]

Round 291 Checkmate

[abextra]

btw. while I am here, no answers to those spoons yet

Too many spoons and too many dots for me... I just don't know where to start!

PS If anyone can put up a blank 10 x 10 grid, that would be great!

Here's the grid... sadly it's so tiny... (click on thumbnail to enlarge).

[davis_greatest]

Here's the grid... sadly it's so tiny... (click on thumbnail to enlarge).

Thanks for the grids!

[davis_greatest]

And may as well add at the same time as the spoons and round 292,

Round 293 Oversized CheckmateApe

Exactly the same as rounds 291 and 292, but with a 12x12 chessboard to colour...

Round 291 Checkmate

While Ronnie is counting the dots on his spoons, Steve Davis is keeping his brain alert and redesigning his chessboard to make it more Interesting. He decides that, instead of the boring black and white pattern, it would look better with some snooker colours.

So, he scrubs out the black squares and then colours in the chessboard in six different patches - coloured in order: yellow, green, brown, blue, pink and black.

Each patch is a different shape, bigger than the previous one, and consists of squares of the chessboard connected by one or more edges (not just at a corner).

First, Steve colours in the yellow and green patches wherever he likes. After that, the shape of each patch can be made by sticking together the shapes of the two previous ones (rotations are allowed). For example, sticking together the yellow and green patches forms the shape of the brown one; sticking together the green and brown patches forms the shape of the blue one, etc.

Help Steve colour in his snooker chessboard (all squares must be coloured - click on thumbnail to enlarge).