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Joined: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:34 pm Posts: 307 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, England
One way of solving the Pompeii Forum puzzles is to draw a grid and put numbers in each box. Other approaches include Venn diagrams and family trees. Which do you favour? Or do you have your own method?
So far I've used a sort of simultaneous equations approach. I have a feeling that is about to get too complicated now so I may try the grid suggestion. I did think of Venn diagrams but wasn't sure I could make it work for these puzzles where there are several mutually exclusive options eg City/Provinces where there are obviously no overlaps.
Joined: Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:34 pm Posts: 307 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, England
In a Venn diagram, the set of Romans would be everything within the Citizens/Romans circle and the set of Provincials is everything outside. My problem with the Venn diagram approach is that I needed to go to a third dimension when the fourth division was added.
Joined: Sun Jul 22, 2007 1:39 pm Posts: 67 Location: West Wales
I draw a sort of family tree, starting at the top with one figure (the total number of people). The next "generation" divides that into 2, the Romans and countrymen, and so on all the way down. Once I have done the tree I fill in what numbers I have and the rest sort of falls into place. It has worked every time so far (yes even on page 11).
I use a combination of hedgewitch's family tree and Laura's simultaneous equations. The equations kick in when there are too many unknowns in the tree.
Joined: Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:53 am Posts: 126 Location: pretending to work
At the beginning I just did a grid but they've got too complicated as time as gone on, so I now use the simultaneous equations, but then, that's the type of maths I like
Joined: Mon Aug 18, 2008 1:39 pm Posts: 8 Location: UK
can you elaberate on the 'grid' method of this. i have tried using the family tree type but this all gets a little confusing. and the other method i just dont get at all...not having much luck with some of these puzzles like lol...good fun tho!
I only tried it with one of the very last pages, by which time the puzzle was so complicated that it didn't seem possible to draw it out. So I returned to the tried and tested methods I had used before.
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