Friday Puzzle #171 - US Team Logo puzzle

[motris]

With a super-sized team of US stars this year at the WSC and WPC, we've been sporting a new t-shirt with a team logo designed by me. While we've been battling for WPC victory, my competitors have been stuck trying to puzzle out what to do with the logo on our backs. I leave you, the viewers at home, with the same challenge.

Comments

Star Battle?

[anonymous]

What has this to be with me if I'm not American? I'm also not a puzzler.

FARFARAWAYFAN

[figonometry]

I think I found a mistake. I mean, you can't even fit six stars into some of those regions at all!

Good luck, but Go Canada.

[motris]

Sadly, no Canadians this year. But if they were here I'm sure they would be performing well. I grew up an hour from Toronto though, so I might be 20% culturally Canadian from watching some of your television shows?

[figonometry]

That sucks about no Canadians. However, I accept you as Canadian, and will now root 20% for you.

Looking forward to directions

[anonymous]

My first attempts to figure out the rules have failed.
There are 6 gray regions and 6 stars, so my assumption was you had to place 1 star per gray region such that each line (of 12 squares wrapping around the cube) had one star. But that leads to a contradiction pretty quickly.

I tried a similar tactic with 2 stars per region and finally 6 stars per face. I guess I'm making some incorrect assumptions, so I look forward to the explanation.

Re: Looking forward to directions

[motris]

The 6 stars was a stylistic design (at the time there were 6 US team members I knew of on our 2 A-teams). I suppose I could have also gone with 50. In either case, the puzzle uses neither 6 nor 50 stars but something perhaps in between.

The U S and A regions are meaningful regions.

[anonymous]

Nice one, thanks, and good luck!

[ext_697867]

Is this Norinori on the surface of half a cube? I think it has a ton of solutions. :)

Actually, once seeing Figonometry's puzzle reminded me that just because something's a Star Battle doesn't mean you must have two stars per region, this wasn't extreme in difficulty.