Michael Linton's Bayeux Tapestry: 1066 - A Medieval Mosaic and Puzzles

Road Map

Road Map Jigsaw Puzzle

The theory for this puzzle is the same as for Medieval Match. This time, there are equilateral triangle pieces with the potential for 6 roads on each. Each road may either join with, or cross under/over another road, or become a dead end (town).

The puzzle uses a specially selected set of pieces from the permutation of 6 roads laid out on a triangle. All of the pieces that have been selected are unique, but there are still more unique pieces that could have been selected. The full set of unique pieces was not used as it becomes humanly impossible to solve with so many pieces.

Ignoring the roads and edge pieces, there are factorial 73 to the power of 3 ways of placing the pieces, which is equal to 8.9 with 316 zeros!!!

If you solve this puzzle, please email a photo of your solution to c1066@1066.co.nz and your name will be added to the Medival Mosaic "Hall of Fame".