Puzzle Description:

Yet another American flag, hopefully a bit more challenging than most.

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Dec 17, 2012 [HINT]

Color logic places all the black and blue. There are only a few red pixels that can be placed.

Edge logic on the 3 in c5 rules out r39-40. (If the 3 extended down into either of those rows, it would leave a block of one or two in c4, which conflicts with the 3 clue in that column.)

Edge logic on the 3 in c4 rules out r39-40 for the same reason (but one column over, obviously).

Then line logic to finish.

Now that's a great and unusual flag puzzle,extremely well done Joe. I made a Canadian flag in a puzzle,that was blowing as well. I thought I did a good job on that one,but yours took a lot of thought I bet. I love it.:)

Awesome! What a great image. Never would have thought of it. There have been a lot of USA flags, but none like this, I bet. How about it, Adam?

Agreed. This is the most unique perspective of a flag that I have seen yet. I don't even feel obligated to post the other flag puzzles because this is in a class by itself. :-)

Oh, and just as importantly, a nice solve, too.

fantastic! ditto everyone...wow. I'm speechless

add me to the dittos

Beautiful! From the title and the size I expected a kite, but this is even better.

Thanks for the compliments, everyone. After having done Yet Another American Flag Puzzle, I thought there must be a way to show one that would be recognizable and yet not boring.

Here's a puzzle I made after having done a stunningly hard 3-pixel French Flag Puzzle: http://webpbn.com/index.cgi?page=play.cgi%3Fid=8236


And for the unflappable, here's a list of all my puzzles:
http://webpbn.com/find.cgi?search=1&author=infrapinklizzard
http://www.webpbn.com/find.cgi?search=1&author=infrapinklizzard

Excellent! Thanks!

Oh wow! An amazing solve AND an amazing image. I enjoyed the challenge, especially since i didn't have to resort to peeking at hints. :-)

the best joe :)

Thanks, Jota & Teresa.

Travis - *blush* I wouldn't call myself the _best_ Joe... (but you can.)

Wow! Outstanding. Thank you.

Thanks Lollipop, and thanks also for looking at older puzzles!

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by gator.

Great solve Joe.

Thanks, Gator.

Brillant! Thanks for a new and challenging flag puzzle

Thanks, Heather

Great image. Much harder solve than expected. Had to guess several times.

Wow! What a great puzzle and image.

If we had a Puzzle Hall of Fame, this puzzle would be in it.

Best American flag!!! And challenging too! Very, very nice.

I ditto the comments...

This is one of my fav puzzles on the site...twas a pleasure to re-visit it! :)

I do tend to do that from time to time. Ignore the newer ones and re-visit some of my fav puzzs.

Nice!

This was really well done. And the puzzle was a neat challenge too.

After the black/blue line logic, I actually went with each way logic on C40 R2-5. Since there's a 3 at the bottom, the 2 in R39 creates a 1 vertically. Then you roll up the reds.

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