2003 Google U.S. Puzzle Championship
Solutions

1. Battleships (Moshe Rubin)

Answer: F4,J4,J7,I10

2. Pentomaino Division (Erich Friedman)

Answer: FV,PY,TW,NZ,UX,IL

3. Making Change (Erich Friedman)
Answer: 2, 5

4. Dutch Treats (Nancy Schuster)

Answer: EOP,PMP, RSM

5. Dutch Segue (Patrick Merrell)

Answer: 4

6. Common Touch (Will Shortz)
Answer 6.1: B (the six-letter first names start and end with the same letter.)
Answer 6.2: G (the first letter of the last name immediately precedes the first letter of the first name in the alphabet, and the second letter of the last name immediately precedes the second letter of the first name in the alphabet.)
Answer 6.3: C (both the first and last names are poetic dactyls--that is, they have three syllables, accented on the first syllable and unaccented on the second and third.)

7. Distance (Erich Friedman)

Answer: 9,11,7,5,6,10,2,4,8,3,1

8. Unlucky Sevens (Shawn Kennedy)

Answer: SNOWMAN

9. Minesweeper Path (Ken Duisenberg)

Answer: F1,G1,C2,G2,C3,B5,C5,C6,D6,E6

10. SpellBound (Steve Ryan)
Answer 10.1: 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28, 36, 45, 55
Answer 10.2: 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5, 8, 7, 10, 9,12,11 (-1, +3)
Answer 10.3: 512, 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1
Answer 10.4: 1, 6, 11, 4, 9, 2, 7, 12, 5, 10,3,8 (+5 hours)

11. Jigsaw Word Search (Michael Rios)

Answer: I, I

12. Special Latin Square (Sidney Kravitz)

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

13. Number Place (Michael Rios)

Answer: 3164275,2746513

14. Puzzle Nut (Patrick Merrell)

Answer: B

15. Corral (Dave Tuller)

Answer: 1,1,1,3,13,20

16. Hex Pie (Cihan Altay)

Answer: A,P,Y

17. Matrix (Harry Nelson)

Answer: 19,9,33,5,1,3,9,9,3,3,15,33,9,15

18. Dutch Week (Cihan Altay)

Answer: D5,A3,D1,H3,H6,D7,A6

19. Numbers by Numbers (Cihan Altay)

Answer: D2,K3,F7,O7,B8,J9,G11,N12,B14,H15

20. Rotator Mosaic (Craig Kasper)

Answer: 1,1,2,4,4,10,11,12,16,20

21. Rolling Block Maze (Jimmy Stephens)

Answer: 2,5,9,12,16,18,21,25 (or 2,4,7,11,14,18,20,23,27 or 2,5,9,12,14,18,22,24,27,31 or 2,5,9,11,14,18,20,23,27)

22. Hard as ABC (Cihan Altay)

Answer: --A--BBAC-

23. A to Z Crisscross (Craig Kasper)

Answer: MC,NZ,IVK,JDHTOSL,QURY,BAE,WFXG,P

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