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#1: Al LaPointe (kancamagus) on Mar 1, 2017

nice puzzle, nice pun :)

Thanks Kanca. I think it's harder than I intended. Hopefully I'll get better at creating these as I go.

Jan created a very helpful tool on the create page. There is a small checkbox to check when you are ready to publish and a larger checkbox which if you check, it will try to solve your puzzle and tell you if there are any problems with your puzzle. If so, you can always tweak your puzzle until the problem goes away. Another safeguard is to always solve your own puzzles to see if you are satisfied with the way it solves.

Other than that, happy first puzzle. Glad you decided to give creating a go. It will get easier as you make more as this medium is very forgiving and allows all the changes you want without difficulty.

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Thanks all for your positive comments. Norma, when I finished the image, I hit a button and it said congrats, your puzzle has a unique solution; that made me think there wouldn't be guessing. I'm going to try more of these, and I hope someday to be a regular contributor of decent puzzles. Cuz I sure as heck spend WAAAAAYY too much time on this site solving!

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using actual symmetry logic isn't line logic...and using "almost" symmetry is guessing.

When a puzzle is almost symmetric, often as in this case, the symmetrical parts can be isolated. I used no guessing in solving this puzzle.

Symmetry has been discussed at length in these forums. I'm not going to get back into it because I don't feel like arguing right now. Long day. You can have this one :P

To go about it more logically, you can see that the lower-third clues are mostly in pairs, except the top two. That 10 clue in R20 needs to be a connector, since there aren't any vertical clues with two numbers (which would imply two parallel lines, or a curl of some sort). Since you can mark a dot of the vertical 4 clues, then the 10 must go between them, meaning that you can place dots in columns 15 and 16 of rows 22-25. I declare this Moderate Lookahead.

Another option is to add a black square in C10 R19 and in C21 R19, which would fill in those columns completely and leave no doubt as to where the rest of the clues go.

Wow you guys are good at this stuff! I can't wait to try a few more.

P.S. Hyperlinks don't work in the description, so you have to put them in a comment instead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

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Exact symmetry is not guessing. "Almost" symmetry is educated guessing.

Fun puzzle!

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