Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Rules - Logic of Life

Logic of Life is an original logic puzzle I created.  It's name, for once, is original!  (even if it is just mixing up "logic puzzle" and "game of life"...)


1. Make each cell white or black.
2. No two black cells may share an edge.
3. All white cells must be connected to each other through their edges.
4. The completed puzzle will be generation 1 of a pattern in Conway's Game of Life, with black cells being live cells and white cells being dead cells.  The edges act like dead cells.
5. All cells with an O in it must be alive in generation 2.
6. All cells with an X in it must be dead in generation 2.
7. All cells with a ? in it must be different in generation 1 than in generation 2.


If you don't understand Conway's Game of Life, here's an alternate telling of the rules (when I mention the cells "around" another cell, I am talking about the eight cells orthogonally and diagonally adjacent to that cell):

1. Make each cell white or black.
2. No two black cells may share an edge.
3. All white cells must be connected to each other through their edges.
4. A white cell with an O must have three black cells around it.
5. A black cell with an O must have two or three black cells around it.
6. A white cell with an X must have zero, one, two, or four black cells around it.
7. A black cell with an X must have zero, one, or four black cells around it.
8. A white cell with a ? must have three black cells around it.
9. A black cell with a ? must have zero, one, or four black cells around it.

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