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quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
Puzzle Description:
A White Horse souse.
#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 21, 2013
Kniferism - a nonce word that describes a phrase where the central sounds have been transposed.#2: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 21, 2013 [HINT]
(As opposed to a Spoonerism where the initial sounds have been transposed.)
Not often used, as "Spoonerism" is often used to cover any transposition.
This is line-logic solvable until the tail end. (Literally)#3: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Mar 21, 2013
The best way to finish it is with summing. The unfinished rows are 12-18. Adding up the unfinished clues gives us 16.
Our unfinished columns are 1-4. Adding up the unfinished clues gives us 11 + a blob.
This means that our blob clue must be 5 longer than it is currently. (16 - 11 = blob)
(This still works if you only add up unplaced pixels: then rows = 10, columns = 5 + blob).
So, the blob clue extends by five pixels (r1c14-18). Then line logic to finish.
Excellent! Love it. Great puzzle, great kniferism. Like you said, the tail took a little thinking.#4: Andraya (gothicfeline) on Mar 21, 2013 [HINT]
Different final solving method (what I used), at the tail end.#5: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Mar 21, 2013
Edge logic on the blob in C1. If it goes as far up as possible, it would fill in six spaces in C2, which contradicts the 5.
So C1R12 must be a dot.
The rest solved with line logic.
a different way yet:#6: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Mar 21, 2013 [SPOILER]
the two 3-clues in r14-15 (and also the 3 clue in r16, but it doesnt matter here) can not both extend to the right into c4 so at least one of them (or possibly both) must extend to the left into c1 - thus r15c1 is black
ll ti finish
no guessing
by the way i loved the summing technique and i am sorry i didnt think of it
A White House source?#7: Jota (jota) on Mar 21, 2013
So many ways for only one tail :-)#8: Laurel Paige (Lorlo) on Mar 21, 2013
Thanks Joe.
good puzzle.#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 21, 2013 [SPOILER]
Thanks, everyone. I think the horse is "switching" his tail...#10: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 22, 2013
If you find this "cutting edge", try my other puzzles: http://webpbn.com/find.cgi?search=1&author=infrapinklizzard&unqual=1&undiff=1#11: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 22, 2013
I always expect a well-designed puzzle from you, Joe, and I was not disappointed. Great final image and really fun challenge to solve.#12: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 22, 2013 [SPOILER]
Thanks, Teresa. The white horse demanded a lot of black, and so I knew it would have to be blotted to make it a challenge.#13: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Mar 23, 2013
I had that endgame in mind from early in the blot-checking process, and it took a bit of work to keep it intact.
Thanks, Joe...on all counts!#14: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 17, 2013 [SPOILER]
A drunken horse?#15: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Apr 17, 2013 [SPOILER]
Yup, and those are horse's Heine-s on the ground.#16: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 30, 2013
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.#17: Velma Warren (Shiro) on May 24, 2019
Nice use of negative space.#18: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Sep 26, 2020
Very graceful.
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