Talk:Slitherlink

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Slitherlink really needs a good strategy page somewhere, and I think Wikipedia is the best place for it. I submit that the strategy be divided into three sections, all with diagrams: Basic, Advanced, and Expert. Basic should consist of simple pattern recognition: Set's of 3's, Diagonal series of 2's, etc. Advanced should be more difficult topics: 2's diagonally located with 3's, 1's in corners. These are difficult to explain with words only. Diagrams will be needed to show these. Expert would get into the mathematical aspects. Things like what is mentioned on the main page as well as what I call Parity - Counting the number of endpoints in a certain area and recognizing whether one of those endpoints will remain in the area or will have to connect with another endpoint somewhere else - and closely related to that is Bottlenecking - When in order to connect up with the rest of the loop, the line must continue through an area where only one path can go.

[edit] strategy

Why don't you write a Wikibook? :) MrD 11:40, 24 July 2007 (UTC)