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#1: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on Jan 27, 2014

Kathryn Lasky :)

Nice puzzle. I enjoyed the movie.

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Not much of a movie person, didn't recognize this at all. I think I'd like it better as a 13 x 19, or even 15 x 20 if you're determined to keep too even fives, not fond of filling in extra blank lines, but maybe that's just me. It's a cool shape design, even without knowing what it is.

Susan, I don't know if you are aware of this feature, but it saves a lot of time:
I've added an experimental feature, not really documented much of anywhere yet. The "h" and "v" keys now do horizontal and vertical fills.

For instance, if you hit "h" while the mouse is over a square it will look to the left and right. If the first non-blank squares are each side are the same colors, it will fill all the squares between them with that color.

So if you want to fill in a long row of black squares, you can mark the two endpoints black, then move the mouse anywhere between them and type "h" to fill in all the squares between them.

Similarly, if you are between a black square and the edge of the puzzle when you type "h" then it will fill between the black square and the edge of the puzzle with blacks.

Or, if you are in a row that from the clues is obvious all one color (ie, the clue is blank so the row is all white, or the clue is a single number equal to the puzzle width), then clicking 'h' anywhere in that row will automatically fill in the whole row with the correct color.

At's a bit complex to explain, but fairly nice in practice, I think, at least on the large puzzles.

Note that fairly often, "h" and "v" will do nothing. If you aren't over a blank square, or the first non-blank squares to the left and right are not the same color, then it will just silently do nothing.

fun solve,.

Interesting - not familiar with ga'hoole

http://www.kathrynlasky.com/book-series/series/guardians-of-gahoole

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