Puzzle Description:

It's the solitaire engagement ring I gave to my wife 18 years ago. We iwll be married 16 years in June.

#1: Bryan (Cyclone) on Jan 31, 2011

Guessing? I didn't have any difficulty with this, just a little edge logic.

The edge logic I did involved looking ahead quite a ways. Maybe someone else can do it without that.

Congrats on 16 years of marriage Ron!

congrats & thanks for entry

Lovely. Have many more happy years together.

For a second there, I thought you were going for that old joke..."My wife and I have been happily married for nine years. We'll be celebrating our 25 anniversary next month."

Congrats.

i agree with telly i felt like i had to look ahead several steps
what did i miss?

i see the ring and i assume its around a finger (the blue part) but i cant tell how the finger is positioned and what portion we are actually seeing

Nice entry! Thanks!

The ring is sitting where it normally would on a finger. The finger tip is off to the upper right of the grid.

yup, no guessing involved. Congrats Ron.

Color/line logic gets the red and black done. Edge logic on the 4 clue in column 15 dots R1C15-R3C15. Edge logic on the 2 clue in row 1 dots R1C14.

Looking at the possible places that the 4 clue can go in column 15, in every case (looking no more than 2 moves ahead), R8C14 will also be blue. A little more line logic.

Looking at column 6, no matter where you place the 2 clue R5C5 will also be a dot.

And I'm stuck at this point? So what's the next move?

No guessing for me. I used color and line logic to compelete the red & black. Edge logic on column 15 got me started on the blue and the rest finished with straight line logic. Not sure how to answer Gator's question.

Uh...Jane, you misdirected that line in comment #2. =)

Oops! Don't know how I messed that up. Sorry! I fixed it. :P

no guessing!

No guessing, but the right edge took some thought.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by blurglecruncheon.

Going on 30 years here now it looks like! Assuming no bad things.

Place black/red with color logic.

C20R1-3 are dots by edge logic.

If the 5 ends at C16 in R2, the 2's in R1/3 can't fit in C12-14.

If the first 2 in R3 is not in C4-5, that fixes R3. Then the first 2 in R4 is in C4-5 or we have a blue in C16, making a 2 there in C3-4. That makes a contradiction in R1C10.

But then if the first 2 in R4 starts at C14, that squeezes out the 2-2 in row 1.

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