http://www.eternity2.net/forum_thread.php?id=20#274

citace:

"At the same time as Eternity, Monckton released various smaller puzzles. Solving any of these allowed one to send off for one of various "hints", showing where on the Eternity grid particular pieces were in Monckton's solution. Alex points out that these would not have been any help at all. "Suppose you're going fishing, and you know that in the Atlantic there is one fish per cubic mile, and in the Pacific there are two fish per cubic mile. Then you'll fish in the Pacific rather than the Atlantic. If someone throws one extra fish into the Atlantic, it won't make any difference. With total fish stocks of 1095 or more, one fish more or less is neither here nor there."

citace:

"In fact, if solvers had been required to use the hints, the puzzle would have become much harder. If you are building up a solution by carefully slotting in pieces one by one, small holes in the middle of the region to be tiled will enormously increase the number of constraints. "Having to fit in with pieces in the middle of the board would be crippling."

.. tot otazka jestli napoveda pomuze nebo uskodi.

Rozhodne stopa snizi jak pocet vsech moznych kombinaci, tak diky tomu vznikne dalsi omezujici podminka a snizi se i pocet moznych reseni. Ve vysledku asi nezjistime jestli to k necemu je.
Idealni by bylo, kdybych za vyreseni Stopy nemusel davat doprostred ten startovaci dilek. No nic, program mi bezi a zatim nic, no uvidime.