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NYT Vertex puzzle query (Posted on 2023-03-23) Difficulty: 3 of 5
The New York Times online Games section has a daily puzzle called Vertex

The player is faced with an array of numbered dots and connects them with segments.

How to play

  • Draw lines between points to create triangles.
  • Connect vertices to create triangles and assemble an image.
  • The number on a vertex shows its remaining connections.
  • Triangles will fill in if they are correct.
  • Double tap a vertex to clear its connections.

I should add that the finished puzzle is a connected network of triangles and every segment is part of a triangle.

Question: is a solvable Vertex puzzle guaranteed to have a unique solution?

No Solution Yet Submitted by Jer    
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Some Thoughts Does this count? | Comment 1 of 4
I don't see anything about the edges of the triangles needing to coincide, so I concocted this simple idea based on a 90deg rotation:
2   2   *---*   *   *
\ / |\ /|   4   * | * |
/ \ |/ \| 2   2 *---* * *

  Posted by Brian Smith on 2023-03-23 11:46:42
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