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[Dastal]

This one is fairly easy.

Solution:
Simply move the horizontal bar up above the original "inner tower." It may look soething like this:

code:

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                o


               / \


              /   \


             /     \


            o       o


           / \     / \


          o--o-----o--o


         /     \ /     \


        /      _o_      \


       /     _/   \_     \


      /    _/       \_    \


     /   _/           \_   \ 


    /  _/               \_  \


   / _/                    \_\


  /_/                         \


 /                             o


o

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Please excuse the bad ASCII art, but you get the point.

[Sir duke the luke]

Simply move the middle wall up so that the two towers are on the inside.

[cha]

First, I want to see if I have this invisible thing down...

[This message has been edited by cha (edited 05-15-2002 10:09 PM).]

[cha]

obviously not - can I get some help in plain language?

[cha]

Oh well, other options are possible if walls can curve a bit...

[Hitchhiker]

cha: use / instead of \ .

[Laramie]

dastal is right, but I wonder if it can be done with all five walls having an exterior portion.

[cha]

With curved walls... thanks, Hitchhiker...


..................................................................(X)
........................................................... (.......l........)
....................................................... X..........l. .........)
...................................................(...............X..............)
.................................................(..................l................X
................................................(...................l..................).......X
.................................................(..................l................X
...................................................(...............X..............)
........................................................X.........l............)
............................................................(.......l.......)
..................................................................(X)

Just imagine that I could figure out a way to connect those other X's




[This message has been edited by cha (edited 05-15-2002 10:36 PM).]

[Ctorj]

I could be wrong but that doesnt't look right. Some rules are not fulfilled and you're missing an "X". (tower)

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Love is the absolute expression of the human perfection. -Me

[Duphrates]

With curved walls,OK let's see if I can work this invisible thing...

code:

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...


It's not too clear but there are two curved walls one like a closed 


bracket ) and the other like the top 3/4 of a C








               x


              / \ 


             /   \


            x     x


           / \  /  \


          /   x     \


         /   / \     \


        /   |   |     \


       /    |   |      \


      x-----x---x-------x


     /      |   |


    /        \  /


   /          \x  


  /           /       


 x___________/  








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...but I don't suppose curved walls were intended in the answer.

[Edited to try to fix invis spacing]



[This message has been edited by Quailman (edited 05-21-2002 12:41 PM).]

[Quailman]

You only have three on the northeast wall.
And I agree that curved walls were not intended. Just move some of the points a bit so the walls need to 'flex', and bend them between towers.

[Duphrates]

Sorry, got carried away with myself after so many doodles that I forgot
about he four towers on each wall. It was my first posting, please be gentle!

[Jello]

It appears the simplest way is to merely move the bottom horizontal line up to cross the two inner lines above the central tower. This places two towers within the walls and satisfies all the conditions.

[CrystyB]

mith, i wonder if when you say "originally ... by XYZ", wou could add a bracketed GLname fcol!

[vijayrborkar]

I think thats the best way too.... it gets two towers in... the only reason it may be less desirable is that its too obvious

see http://puzzleanswer.tripod.com/images/const.gif for the blueprints

or see http://puzzleanswer.tripod.com/images/const1.gif for some really wild ideas

Vijay

[nandjands]

I agree with Sir Duke the Luke, it is a very simple qustion with a very simple solution move the middle wall up so the 2 towers are inside the outer walls.

[nandjands(nathan)]

I agree with Sir Duke the Luke, it is a very simple qustion with a very simple solution move the middle wall up so the 2 towers are inside the outer walls.

[Werebear]

...To see invisible text, like the answer in the first post of this thread, either edit the message, or use your mouse and highlight it.

Werebear

[CrystyB]

or press Ctrl-A to select all invisible text on a page at once!

PS Duphrates, please include some EOL characters inside the code tags. It's increasing the pagewidth unnecessarily.

[This message has been edited by CrystyB (edited 05-21-2002 11:20 AM).]

[Duphrates]

Sorry, but your going to have to explain what EOL characters are.
Besides, hasn't Quailman edited my reply into code?

[Quailman]

I added the [code] bit to your message, because without that, UBB drops all the leading spaces and everything slides over to the left. When I did that, I left the text intact, but I just now fixed that with a carriage return (End Of Line).

[vijayrborkar]

I'm very sorry... ( i found out that the tripod service didnt work with many browsers.... This link should work now...

http://puzzleanswer.tripod.com/images/const.html

Please tell me what u think... theres no condition that walls must join each other.

Sorry '''' again

vijay

[Duphrates]

Ahhh I see.Thanks.

[Snatch]

Um that solution is right I guess but the solution should contain only 2 towers in the center and the curved solution contains more. I think the original answer is the only reasonable one submitted so far.

Snatch

[CrystyB]

why EXACTLY two??? The king (and queen too) may have relatives that would value some additional protection too! ((there is no mentioning that the walls should be straight!))

[scarab]

Sir Duke the Luke is correct. You just move the bottome line up. You don't need curved lines or anything.