HitoriGuistiku II
	Solution to the Monster LingDoku from last time.

The SpecGram Puzzle Elves™ are pleased to present for your puzzle-solving pleasure another HitoriGuistiku—a linguistics-heavy variant of the well-known Japanese logic puzzle Hitori.

Rules

The HitoriGuistiku puzzle is presented on a grid, with each cell containing a character. The goal is to “paint” appropriate cells black so that no row or column contains more than one character with a given phonetic feature. For this Cherokee-based HitoriGuistiku, at right, the relevant features are initial consonant or cluster and vowel of each syllable.

Further constraining the puzzle, the black, or “painted out”, cells of the grid cannot be vertically or horizontally adjacent. The remaining cells (white) must all be connected horizontally or vertically in a single group. Traditional Hitori-solving techniques apply.

The apparently correct solution to the Monster LingDoku from last issue is provided at right. Despite careful measures taken to insure that no one could solve the puzzle, several people did.

Each of these talented puzzlers will receive a SpecGram magnet of their choosing for their unexpected success.

• Nynke de Haas of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Erik Gedeborg of Södertälje, Sweden
• Michael Gottlieb of Pasadena, California
• Jonathan Kew of Thame, England
• Amy Peters of Iowa City, Iowa
• Nils Schäffer of Pfösing, Austria

Congratulations!

If you believe you are similarly worthy of the daunting task that is HitoriGuistiku II, email your solution to SpecGram. At least one random winner chosen from among those who send in correctly completed puzzles by December 15th, 2007 will be awarded a SpecGram magnet.

A solution (probably the correct one, but life is uncertain) and the name of the prize winners (if any) will appear in the upcoming January 2008 issue.

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