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There are two game rules in
completing the entire Hoverdia® Eighteen
puzzle which consists of 64 boxes (8x8 box).
Both
RULE ONE and RULE TWO may be applied
interchangeably.
The main
puzzle is best represented by 8 long horizontal blocks and 8 long
vertical blocks, with each long horizontal block and each long
vertical block consists of 8 small boxes, which give the total of 64
boxes.
Besides these, there are two more
HINTS in helping the
player to decode the entire puzzle.
There are 8 horizontal
blocks and 8 vertical blocks with 8 boxes in each block which must
contain all the numbers from 1 to 8 inclusively without
repeating any number thereof - This is Rule One.
For
solving this puzzle at any level
of difficulties, the player may begin with any
Quarter (4x4) which is deemed easy or solvable by applying
Rule Two
before moving onto another adjacent Quarter for completing
all the horizontal blocks or/and vertical blocks.
This puzzle is also alternatively
represented by 4 Quarters and each Quarter consists of 4x4 box.
All the blocks in each Quarter, which consist of 4 boxes,
must be added up to the sum of 18 horizontally, vertically and
diagonally - This is Rule
Two.
This is proven to be the Best Initial
Approach in solving the entire puzzle by
starting from each Quarter in compliance with
the Rule
Two.
 Hoverdia® Eighteen
is not just the placement of numbers but also involving
additions with a standard game board of 8x8 box for brain training
in people of any age with no language barrier.
This number
puzzle game is appropriate for educational purposes as well as
for family game as it is non-violence.
The name of Hoverdia was derived from the first two or
three letters of HOrizontal,
VERtical and DIAgonal. And Eighteen is one of the two rules in this
puzzle.
The numbers pre-set in the Hoverdia puzzle not always in
sequence either by ascending order from 1 to 8 or by descending
order from 8 to 1 and usually will be jumbled up or in random
order.
It really doesn't matter how or
which way the player start with - the most importance is
when the player complete the entire puzzle that is in
compliance with the Hoverdia® Eighteen's Rules.
It is an
addictive mind game that involves both logical thinking and
arithmetic solving as it is best for activating not only the
left brain, but the right brain as well.
The characteristic of all the 8 long
horizontal blocks and 8 vertical blocks together with the 4
quarters, where each quarter consists of 4 short horizontal blocks
and 4 short vertical blocks, in which some numbers have been filled
up in advance, are the essential building blocks of HOVERDIA® EIGHTEEN.
RULE ONE
All 8 long
horizontal blocks and 8 long vertical blocks, which have 8 boxes in
each block, must contain one of the numbers from 1 to 8
inclusively.
RULE
TWO
In each of
the 4 quarters, all 4 short horizontal blocks and 4 short vertical
blocks together with 2 diagonal blocks, which have 4 boxes in each
block, must be added up to the sum of 18 horizontally, vertically
and diagonally.
HINT ONE
Each quarter shall not
contain more than 2 sets of numbers from 1 to 8
exclusively.
HINT TWO
Same number may be
repeated twice within the same diagonal block in any of the 4
quarters (4x4 box). |
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