Puzzle Description:

Homage to Jan's #14: The Second Easiest Puzzle Ever -- "This image depicts ten thousand greek warriors bursting out of the belly of a giant wooden horse just inside the gates of the towered city of Troy. In the distance we see the vacant Greek camp and along the shore, fifty Greek sailing ships pulled up on the beach."

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Aug 28, 2010 [HINT]

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great solve
nice image

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

I was hoping someone would do this one. Nice puzzle.

Fun solve, nice image! Thanks!

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I got some of the trickier bits but I'll admit to having come in and looked at the hints.

Great image. High marks from me!

yep, lots of patience... thanks for entry Joe

logically solved. nice

Oh my gosh! This is fantastic, Joe! The image is perfect. The amount of challenge was very satisfying. It was so fun to hunt for the edge logic. I'm so glad I was able to do this one without checking the hints. :-)

excellent take on jan's puzzle! fun to solve :-)

congrats Joe ... we really liked your puzzle :)

Thanks all. I knew this was the one I wanted to do when I found a picture of a bell-bottomed Trojan Horse. It took about 5 rearrangements in order to get it to solve, but I kept the horse the same!

I wasn't able to find the author of this etching, but I like it! http://www.trojanhorseantiques.com/TrojanHorseMythImage.jpg

That link has died. I think this image might be the same, at least it's similar:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/engraving-of-trojan-horse-from-1875-royalty-free-illustration/155139970

so good!

Fabulous. But where are the other 43 ships?

They were just models, made for PR purposes. They're in the holds of the ones you see.

:)

Third Hardest Puzzle Ever???

It is pretty hard. It was done for one of the weekly contests - the theme of which was to make a puzzle that was an homage to one of the founder's (Jan Wolter) puzzles.

To make up for the difficulty of this one, try his original, "The Second Easiest Puzzle Ever": http://webpbn.com/index.cgi?id=14

Super cool :)

Thank you!

I'm still only counting 9,999 warriors. You missed one.

Lol, this is a reference to one of the comments of the easiest puzzle ever, also from WC 66. I just did all three of this series together. I'm really glad I started with Jan's and didn't come across the other two at random. They would not have made any sense.

Nice depiction of what our imaginations had to put together ourselves. Well done.

This is a faithful embiggening of Jan's puzzle. Go look at his again and you'll see where you went wrong.

;P I admit nothing!

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Third hardest puzzle ever!

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