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Comments on Puzzle #4476: Ah'm a Picking
By Mary Thomas (marleethom)

peek at solution       solve puzzle
  version: 3    quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

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#1: Shae (shaekin) on Apr 28, 2009 [SPOILER]

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#2: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Apr 28, 2009
Found to require some guessing by jan.
#3: Jan Wolter (jan) on Apr 28, 2009 [SPOILER]
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#4: Mary Thomas (marleethom) on Apr 29, 2009
Coton is the way labels read, Shae. Maybe its french or spanish?

Jan, thanks for the idea but I don't think I'll redo this one again. The solver on the page found the solution without a great deal of help. That's why I thought it was ready for publication.
#5: Jan Wolter (jan) on Apr 29, 2009
The checker starts out working like a human. If that fails it starts doing trial and error. It'll make long chains of guesses, and if it hits a contradiction, backtrack and make different guesses. That works, but for a human to solve puzzles like that could take weeks.

Some puzzles where the checker needs to do backtracking can be solved by humans with other tricks, like edge logic. But I don't think this one can. The checker gives you some information, but it doesn't ensure that the puzzle is a workable one for humans.
#6: Mary Thomas (marleethom) on Apr 29, 2009
Hi Jan, thanks for explaining. I've taken weeks with some puzzles :) I still haven't solved Special to Little Girls. I get lost when there are lots of groups of small numbers.

I need more practice making puzzles.
#7: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Apr 29, 2009
Unpublished by marleethom
#8: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 1, 2009
New version published by marleethom.
#9: Meg Tayler (rebelcat) on May 2, 2009 [SPOILER]
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#10: Mary Thomas (marleethom) on May 2, 2009
Thank you Meg. I've picked up a few foreign words on labels. Sewing patterns are often multi-lingual as well as having measurements in metric/imperial. That helped some in math classes.
#11: Shae (shaekin) on May 5, 2009
I do like the new version better! Thank you!
#12: Gator (Gator) on May 5, 2009 [HINT]
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#13: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 21, 2009
Found to be logically solvable by jan.
#14: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jun 21, 2009 [HINT]
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#15: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Sep 26, 2018
and i'm a-grinnin'
#16: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Sep 26, 2018
Great image and wonderful info. Very clear.

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