Juno's Rope Magic

©1995 Junichi Yananose

Pieces of Juno's Rope Magic 2 lines

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.

True Loop True Line False Line

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

Example of solution
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.

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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