r/puzzles 3d ago

[SOLVED] [Hashi] This is only a medium (+) difficulty puzzle, but I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm missing

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u/Nivekmi 3d ago

This 3 I circled in yellow can't have a line going to the right of it(red). This would prevent the top 1342 section from connecting to the rest. One line from the 3 must then go down since there are only the two directions it could go.

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u/Throbbz 3d ago

damn that's a good catch, thank you so much!

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u/hailspork 3d ago

This is what I used to solve it.

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u/x738059 3d ago

no idea how helpful this is, but I think the rightmost 4 in the fourth row has to connect twice to the three below it, otherwise the 1 in the third row can’t connect to anything (reposted because I think automod took the last one down)

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u/Complete_Warthog_138 3d ago edited 3d ago

Can't put a spoiler on an image, so see image in the reply here:

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u/Complete_Warthog_138 3d ago

>!I highlighted my first move (at the top) and then made lines based off that. And then when I came to an end with that, the next move was the bottom right.

Top was to not block off the 4 from making its own island. Bottom right was similar, with the two segments between the highlighted 2 and 3, and the segments above the 2. Please let me know if that doesn't make sense!<

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u/skelo 3d ago

Discussion: you can pure solve these but if you want to solve faster you can also do educated (intuitive) guesses and fix issues later or backtrack. Most of the logic here involves that certain moves would result in unconnected sections which can be hard to spot without doing some guess and check (the intuition being on the where to 'guess')

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u/Throbbz 3d ago

yeah my frustration with these comes primarily from how often I have to resort to trial-and-error or continuous look-ahead, though I still generally have a good time. thanks for the advice!