2004 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship
Solutions

1. Battleships (Moshe Rubin)

Answer: E3,C4,I7,F10

2. Full House (Erich Friedman)



Answer 2.1: D6,D3
Answer 2.2: E5,F2
Answer2.3: C5,D2

3. Croatian Cow (Patrick Merrell)

Answer: 4

4. A Puzzler Is... (Will Shortz)

Answer: BUDAN

5. Mental Blocks (Scott Kim)
Answer: A,B,C,E,F

6 A Matter of Degrees (Cihan Altay)

Answer: AC,BC,CA,AB or AC,BC,BA,CB,BA,AC or AC,BA,AC,BC,CA,AB or BC,AC,AB,CA,AB,BA,CB

7. Spiral Galaxies (Shawn Kennedy)

Answer: A2,B4,C4,D6,E11,F6,G4,H6,I9,J7,K4,L1

8. Circular Logic (Scott Kim)

Answer: 65

9. Number Boxes (Erich Friedman)

Answer: 4,9,1,6,8,5,2,7,3

10. Roundtrip (Glenn Iba)

Answer 1,1,2,3,8,17

11. Card Trick (Cihan Altay)

Answer: 6,5,16,15,12,(0),6,10,11

12. Croatian Words (Nancy Schuster)

Answer: HARAN,FORAR,MBMAO,OACDD,JSNJJ

13. Puzzle Master (Patrick Merrell)

Answer: 1,1,0,3

14. U-Must-Turn Maze (Robert Abbott)

Answer: 28,9

15. On a First Name Basis (Shawn Kennedy)

Answer: ELIJAH,SOL,ADA,LENA,BYRON,LANCE,HESS,ALEX
or ELLA,LEAH,ANN,ISABEL,JOYCE,REX,ALDOS,HANS

16. Quadrilaterals (Scott Kim)
Answer: 47

17. Rolling Block Maze (Jimmy Stephens)

Answer: 0,3,8,12,17,20 or 0,3,6,10,14,19,22

18. Corral (Dave Tuller)
 
Answer: 1,1,1,18

19. Point Pairs (Cihan Altay)
 
Answer: 

20. Rat Race (Patrick Merrell)

Answer: A1-F3,C2-E6,E3-F5

21. Pent By Numbers (Craig Kasper)
 
Answer: 3,10,15,22

22. Cross Number Sum Place (Michael Rios)

Answer: 5,5,9,3,3,7,1,9,5,2,3,6

23. For Fathers (Craig Kasper)
 
Answer: PASSIM

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