A Master's Arrangement - Flower Arrangement Puzzle
In A Master's Arrangement, there is a puzzle that involves placing flowers on a flowerbed in particular arrangements. Here are some hints to help you solve it.
Hint: Ne'l's Advice
Ne'l will give advice on the rules of arrangement. The first hint explains what is not allowed: yellow-blue adjacency and pink-teal adjacency. The second hint explains what must be followed: white-pink adjacency and teal-blue adjacency. Keep in mind these rules when placing the flowers.
Solutions and Explanations
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Magnolia will place a flower in the center and you will have to work around it using the required flowers.
Solution: Arrangement 1
We must work with a blue flower in the center. With the rule of teal-blue adjacency, we must put the four teal flowers around the blue flower. The four yellow flowers must go in the corners.
Solution: Arrangement 2
With a white flower in the center, there needs to be a T shape created using the pink flower and two white flowers due to white-pink adjacency. Here is one of the possible arrangements.
Solution: Arrangement 3
With a teal flower in the center, we must place a blue flower next to it due to teal-blue adjacency. We also need take into account yellow-blue adjacency, leaving us with either rows or columns, as shown above (one of the possible solutions).
Solution: Arrangement 4
We need to consider pink-teal adjacency now, in addition to teal-blue and white-pink adjacency. Here is one of the possible solutions.