Questions related to Round 6 : Agastya should be posted here.

In Nagastra, when the clues say "using a mine" or "using a star", does it imply that the Path passes the region in the subsequent steps OR does it have to be just the next step?

In Box and Blob, the X mark (in C7, between R4 and R5) is an indicator that there won't be a green line there (otherwise there would be 2 solutions for that region), correct?

Edited by ABcDexter 2026-09-26 7:30 AM

Using a mine or a star can be in any subsequent step and not necessarily in the next step. In the IB example you can see this demonstrated for the star in R4C2.

It's right there in the rules. Mea culpa...

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