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©1995 Junichi Yananose

The goal of this puzzle is to make "Loop" and "Line" with twelve pieces on the rectangle.

End of "Line" must continue to another pieces or touch side of rectangle.

The picture shown below is example of solution for two "Line" and one "Loop" on 4 by 9 rectangle.

Ploblems

1. Make one loop on 6 by 6 square.
2. Make one line on 6 by 6 square.
3. Make two loops on 6 by 6 square.
4. Make one loop and one line on 6 by 6 square.
5. Make two loops and two lines on 6 by 6 square.
6. Make one line on 4 by 9 rectangle.
7. Make two loops and two lines on 4 by 9 rectangle.
8. Make one loop and one line on 3 by 12 rectangle.

Play with Flash

You can play Juno's Rope Magic with Flash by clicking picture shown below.

Number of solution: Computer analized by Goro Tanaka

base		6x6				4x9				3x12			2x18
.		Loop			total	Loop			total	Loop		total	Loop
		0	1	2		0	1	2		0	1		0
Line	0	0	1	4	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1	35	69	8	112	10	64	15	89	0	24	113	0
	2	2001	1608	7	3616	1804	1636	18	3458	160	1368	4986	0
	3	15874	6902	0	22776	24658	6692	0	31350	6784	13464	51598	0
	4	37640	5172	0	42812	78586	7676	0	86262	64368	18640	169270	200704
	5	27010	1336	0	28346	80502	672	0	81174	164544	5888	251606	1338368
	6	6912	0	0	6912	29712	0	0	29712	71680	0	101392	2979840
	7	0	0	0	0	1856	0	0	1856	12288	0	14144	4128768
	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	884736
total		89472	15088	19	104579	217128	16740	33	233901	319824	39384	593109	9532416