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#1: Jota (jota) on Jan 18, 2017

Your guess is as good as it gets.

Zombie robots?

Two robots? One unfinished?

OOh, caption contest!

"But Mom, why can't I go to the heavy metal concert?"

"I'm liking those chiseled abs."

Buns of Steel

"Sometimes, I get the feeling I'm being followed"

"I see dead people"

"Let me introduce you to my half sister."

"Be careful, Sis, remember you are unarmed."

And, she doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Brian, Teresa you two are too funny!! LOL

Very funny guys! Thanks!
Brain I think I made your day!

Your nowhere near the robot I am.

Be all the robot you can be,or at least come close.

Teresa's are hilarious. :)

Let me introduce you to our new patrol cops Robo #1 and Robo #1/2.

I thought the cross things on the were police hats.


Love Brian, Teresa, and Aldege's

My daughter just walked in and said one looks like a skeleton and the other a ghost.

A crude image of Jack Skellington and his dog Zero?

Robot doctors - first thing you see after waking up on the operating table. Aieee! I'm one of them now!

Jota, thank you for this sweet puzzle. It just goes to show you that something so small can bring such fun.

ditto ALL .. thx Jota :)

Me and my shadow

Great comments keep them coming! Thank U all

What do you mean, we're ghosts?

johnny 5 looking for help to get his friend out of the snowdrift

goodness that was a tough solve! lots of two-way and IEL. i'm pretty sure at least one of my moves would be judged as deep look-ahead by the powers that be..but it might not have been necessary.

Hopefully the solving mystery will de discovered soon!

I saw a skeleton and a ghost. I bet it was supposed to be for Halloween. :)

Better guess that Valentine's Day! ;-)

Left side was easy. Right side less so.

C20: EL eliminates R14-15 in this column. (one square LL available)
C19: Placing the 5 in R17-19 causes a contradiction in C18 or C20. (no LL available)
R3: EL eliminates C14. (no LL available)
R4: Starting in C20 causes a contradiction in R3, so R4C20 is white. Small amount of LL.
C20: No matter where the 4 is placed, the 5 in C19 reaches R12-13, so these two squares are black. Small amount of LL.
C20: Placing the 4 in R11-12 causes a contradiction in R14, so these squares are white.

LL solves from there.

Thanks Wombat!

I agree with Wombat's first three steps. However, the fourth is incorrect. The 4 in r4 can be placed in c17-20 without immediate conflict. (The 3 in c17 goes down, the 2 and 4 in c19&20 go up.) It would take around four or five steps to get a conflict in c17.

And there I'm stuck.

The 4th works for me and then I'm stuck.

i just resolved it. i didn't check to make sure any of these were unnecessary, this is just the order i did them in...

after wombat's first three moves...

- whether C16R4 or C18R4 is black, C18R5 is a dot
- whether C16R4 or C20R4 is black, C16R5 is black
(broke that into two steps to eliminate some look-ahead)

- whether C13R7 or C13R11 is black, C14R11 is a dot
- EL dots C20R3-4
- whether C12R5 or C14R5 is black, C12R7 is a dot
- IEL dots C12R8
- IEL dots C19R3

- IEL: black at C16R12 can't be the 1 because dots above push 4 clues in R7 and R11 into C20. this dots C16R16-19
- IEL: if C12-13R14 were dots pushing the 3-2 clues right, it violates R13 by blacking C16&19, so C13R14 is black

At first I thought for sure it was the maid on Jetsons. But the half robot threw that idea out. I had to guess to solve the right side.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by blurglecruncheon.

Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by blurglecruncheon.

Sorry for the original mis-assignment here. After reading the solutions and trying a bunch of other things--yes, there is nothing that can be "moderate lookahead." I picked off some of column 20 with edge logic, but each way logic etc didn't work. I hope I did due diligence here.

Thanks Andrew.

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