Tent camp (riddle)
Camp is a logical puzzle or guessing game that is popular in many varieties and by different names.
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Tent camp is played on a rectangular grid. Trees are drawn in some fields, and numbers are at the beginning of the rows and columns.
The aim is to draw a tent for each tree so that the following rules are met:
- The tent stands horizontally or vertically next to its associated tree
- In each row and column there are exactly as many tents as the number on the edge indicates.
- Two tents may not stand next to each other, not even diagonally.
history
Tent camp was invented by Leon Balmaekers in 1989 and published by Peter Ritmeester in Breinbrekers magazine. At that time it was called Alle ballen verzamelen ( Dutch for collect all balls ).
Other names for the puzzle include: Campground , Camp , Lumberjack , Buildings and Guardians , Bees and Flowers, and Well Guarded .