Tradition determines what I’m allowed to do on Christmas Day and Boxing Day and more traditions will kick in on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, but during the four precious days of holiday between there is a sense of freedom – freedom to blog again. Here are nine supertiles of the standard version of Chinese Lattice Labyrinth (25,12), dedicated to Christmas Day and so displayed in the colours of holly leaves and holly berries – I was blessed with good holly hunting on the commons (or so I consider them) of the Derwent Valley this year.
Last night it snowed in Derbyshire; many travellers had adventures, cars were abandoned and pubs such as The Boat Inn let their occupants kip down in the bar. All is bright today.
Each supertile contains 769 squares, the sum of the squares of 25 and 12. 769 is prime.
In addition, here is a message in classical (maybe) Portuguese.
Sou Dave, o ‘latticelabyrinths’ blogger. Fico intrigado pelo grande número de visitas ao meu site originando do Brasil, talvez o resultado das minhas tentativas de desenhar labirintos inspirados pelo Dia da Independȇncia – Sete de Setembro – do Brasil. Ficaria encantado a colaborar na creação duma calçada que respresentaria a abertura dos Jogos Olímpicos de 2016 – ainda há tempo para realiser um tal projeto. Sou capaz de obter publicidade internacional graças à minha campanha para o reconhecimento do triunfo dos parcipantes que chegaram no quarto lugar nos Jogos Olímpicos de Londres 2012. A medalha atribuida a estes participantes atraiu interesse nos meios de communicação mundiais. Faz favor de contactarme no caso de estarem interessados num labirinto para celebrar os Jogos de 2016. A maneira mais simples de entrar em contacto é através do meu email: latticelabyrinths@gmail.com.
P.S. Links to the how-to-do-it workbook: From the publisher, or via you-know-who , better, from a good independent bookshop or just Google.
You can contact Dave Mitchell, the blogger via latticelabyrinths@gmail.com.
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