Enigmarch 2025, Day 15: STAR

[tahnan]

Progress, I tell you. Also, good lord it took me so long to get the graphics to work. So many diagrams, so much math, so many rewrites of my Python code.

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Star Piece

No Star Wars here! (That was Day 5.) Just pieces. You'll want to assemble the fourteen pieces into seven stars (Fig. 1), and then assemble the seven stars into a single image (Fig. 2).

Figure 1

Figure 2

The pieces:

ERRATUM: In the first triangle, "AC" should be "AX". Updated image may come eventually.



Text-only version: Each equilateral triangle has a bigram at each point (facing outward) and a single letter partway down each side (facing roughly inward). As presented [with the erratum incorporated], the triangles (clockwise from the top vertex) are:

AL S LY O HY V
AQ T US U MI U
AT E DR I RN I
AU N RA S RE Y
AX O NX T FR N
CR G CR U OU C
EM R LA S FO A
EN C PI R VO U
ER B VE O TH E
ES N LA G GA M
GR S SC C TO A
IV E US C UX N
LY S UI O RA T
PA R RI A QU C

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And the star of the show: an answer checker!

Comments

[colorwheel]

that's yellow.

[tahnan]

It's amazing how many people can't tell.

[colorwheel]

i still have the "that's not yellow" book. i've done so much culling over the years but i just can't cull it.

[lorelei]

Success! Though I took a wrong turn at the end.

Also minor edit: I think in the first triangle, AC should be AX?

I've been enjoying doing these, don't want to be too critical.

[tahnan]

It should totally be "AX". Don't worry about being critical, these are dashed-off untestsolved puzzles, not crafted masterpieces. :-)