Indonesian Blogger in Singapore

Indonesian Blogger in Singapore
Originally uploaded by judhi.

Indonesian Blogger in SIngapore with Budi Rahardjo & Jeremy Wagstaff as guest star.

Thanks to Indra Pramana & family for hosting the end of the year BBQ gathering!

Solving another quiz

Tonight I visited Mr. Tan's blog and try another quiz here.

Yesterday I managed to solve the quiz with the help of color coded cells in Excel spreadsheet, and today I try something simpler: Windows Notepad.

Since Notepad doesn't come in colors, I use numbers to annotate the relationship between two items or more. The annotation number corresponds to the number of given hints.

The screenshot explains how I did it. BTW, it's solved in 21 minutes.

Solving a quiz

I'm about going to bed tonight when I saw there's an email from Indi Soemardjan. He's forwarding a quiz that shown on Mr. Tan's blog here.

Without looking at the original Mr. Tan's blog posting, once I read the quiz I run MS Excel and start putting all the facts on the cells. Cells with same text color of background indicates they have relationship as stated in the fact points. Cells with bold text indicate absolute position and can't be moved.

If you don't understand what I am talking about, see the quiz yourself and see how I solve it by trial and error with Excel's help on the attached screenshot. It took 26 minutes, probably not the fastest but at least I am honest :)