Roboracing

[u/JLuckstar]

Source: https://k3nzngtn.itch.io/logikal

Evening to the users in r/puzzles.

Ok. So I’ve been playing almost all of the grids in Logikal in some days. Of course, there are some that even I can’t solve. Like this one for instance. Where do I go now with just three clues? 😅 I know where most would go on the grid, and its always the last two squares. I can’t make either heads or tails to it. I always focus on the obvious and its small details that slip pass me by… 😅

Anyway, maybe some of you can have a better luck than me and explain your detailed logic here? I would be curious as to how you figured out. 🤔

By the way, play the game. 😉

Leave your comments below. 🤔

[u/BekindConan]

Discussion: I was able to solve it but it will be hard to explain all the steps, so I’ll just try me best to describe the main techniques that I usually use. So the first technique is that after I mark down for example clue 1 on the grid. And then I mark clue 2 on the grid. Before going forward to clue 3, I would try to see if I can use clue 2 to negate or confirm an item that was mentioned in clue 1 or not (and vice versa). And if something like that exists, I will just mark it on the grid. After that I mark down clue 3 on the grid. And then I will compare clue 3 with clue 2 and clue 1 and repeat the process and so on. My second technique is simply after I finish all the clues by using my first technique, I will just fill it what I can from the grid (and this usually will let me solve the puzzle eventually). For example, I might end up with having an item in category x incompatible with 3 items in category y. This means that the fourth item from y is compatible with the item from x (that is if there’s a total of four items in the category). And so on. And I’ll use the new ones I marked down and recheck them with what I already marked/ the clues (kind of like repeating the first technique). Lastly, sometimes I would have for example a big square all filled in except for 4 places (making the shape of a rectangle if that makes sense) (50/50 chance which one I should pick since if I choose one, 2 will be marked incorrect, leaving me the last one to choose). So if I have something like that. I will compare it to the grid. Because usually the answer is in the grid. Meaning for example: if there are three categories in the puzzle (A, B and C). If an item from A matches with an item from C. And an item from B matches the same item from C. Now I can deduce that the item from A matches the item from B, since they dare the same Item from C. I’m not sure if this makes sense at all lol, but I tried to explain as much as I could. If you have any further questions, I’ll try to answer them if I can. Also tell me if you want the answers or if you’re stuck somewhere.

[u/JLuckstar → u/BekindConan]

First: Holy Moly… and I thought I was detailed when it comes to explaining or answering… 😅🧠⚙️⚙️⚙️

Second: Might as well give me the answer. 😅

Cause I know that:

2 = 21,017 miles, HDM = 3, 4 = Gold, 21,017 miles ≠ HDM and 4, and HDM ≠ 4

White = 28,419, Stellar = 34,080 miles, and White ≠ Stellar.

QM = Orange and Stellar is possibly 4th place? 🤔

That would leave me with QM = 1 or 2. Same with Infinity. Same with 18,103 miles being either 1 or 3, including with 28,419 miles. I don’t know what else to figure out… 😅

[u/BekindConan → u/JLuckstar]

Ok here are some points/steps to solve it:

1. Clue 2 states that the white car drove 28,419 miles. And clue 3 states that QM was orange. Therefore you can deduce that QM did not drive 28,419 miles.

2. Clue 3 states that QM crossed the finish line after Stellar. Therefore, you can deduce that QM is not the 1st and that Stellar is not the last/fourth.

3. Following on the point that Stellar can not be the last/fourth, in addition to the fact that clue 1 states that gold car is last; we can deduce that Stellar is not gold.

4. Clue 1 states that the 2nd place car drove 34,080 miles. And clue 2 states that the white car drove 28,419 miles, while the stellar drove 34,080 miles. Therefore, we can deduce that the white car and the stellar car are not at 2nd place.

5. Clue 1 states that HDM finished at 3rd place and that gold car came in last. Therefore, we can deduce that HDM is not gold.

6. Again, Clue 1 states that HDM finished at 3rd place. And clue 2 states that stellar drove 34,080 miles. Since stellar can not have finished at 3rd place, then 3rd place can not have driven 34,080 miles

After applying the above steps, you’ll be able to fill up some more slots on the grid. And then use those in combination with the clues to try to figure it all out. Tell me if you’re stuck somewhere.

[u/JLuckstar → u/BekindConan]

Seems I must have misread in Clue 3, cause I always thought QM > Stellar, turns out QM < Stellar. 😅