Comment by iigs
17 years ago
In the interest of what you say I decided not to spoil it with my comment. I will however, say the following things:
1) When I hit the surprise "my mind was blown", to use a phrase popular elsewhere on the internet.
2) I still don't have a snowball's chance in hell of understanding it. :)
I was a bit confused when solving the puzzle. It would have been clearer if he wrote that the game is over when nobody has anything to eat. This is implied. The other clarification he could have made was that if an alligator eats a family but itself has no eggs, the alligator simply dies and disappears.
The color changing rule is also a bit clumsy. If I were a kid I would wonder if the two question marks are the same kind in that puzzle. In fact, they may or may not be the same, but appearance wise they look the same.
Hope that helps with anyone who decided to sit down and figure out the puzzle on paper.