Suujin Taisen

Scoring Puzzle

Here's a little score calculation exercise:

  A-5-5-5
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  5-5-5  

To this formation, if one now plays a "5" tile at the "A" spot, how many points will he score? We know that one will score 40+60=100 points for Loops. Assume that the tile connects to both adjacent "5" tiles, but does not make a Complete connection. How many points will one score for Same connections?

For your reference, here are the rules for scoring Same connections:

1. When one plays a tile (the active tile), one scores for every Same connection path which starts at the active tile, except that one does not score for a path which is merely a shorter path (sub-path) of another path one is scoring this turn.
2. A path always begins at the active tile. A path can only pass through each tile once, and never re-visits the active tile. Two paths are considered different, even if they consist of the same tiles, if they visit them in different orders.

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Copyright 30 Apr 2008 Alan Shiu Ho Kwan

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