Cipher & Cinder

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Cinder: what's left after burning it down to the answer.

2 problems, 7.7 MB of models.

Find the seeds
1 model, tandem, 4.3 MB

A 7 by 7 grid holds walls and six coloured territories, drawn by growing each colour outwards one step at a time from a single hidden starting cell, with every cell going to whichever colour reached it first and ties going to the lower colour number. Given only the finished map, name the starting cell of each of the six colours.

solved exactly on 97% of held-out instances
Restore the erased pipes
1 model, chain, 3.4 MB

A 3-by-4 lattice of junctions is joined by 17 one-way pipes, drawn on a 5-by-7 board where junction cells and pipe cells alternate. Each junction cell shows how much liquid it adds or removes, each pipe cell shows how much flows through it, twelve pipe cells have been erased to '?', and the task is to write back a flow of 0 to 4 in every erased cell so that every junction balances exactly.

solved exactly on 100% of held-out instances