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#1: b. b. (ripkoops) on Jun 1, 2016 [HINT]

From the start, the rows with only "1" clues can be dotted (barring two spaces each) by looking at how the columns with 4 clues interact with them.

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:) :(

wow... only the maybe smile logic at the end was my problem. If this is true it is one of the hardest puzzles except for one of Gators.

took me a bit to see your first move. here's a more detailed look for anyone needing help with it:

it is essentially alternating smile logic in a way. Looking at how the clues in C3 and C5 can fit because of the rows with a lone "1" clue. What happens is:

- one of the 3 clues will necessarily pass through R4
(this dots C1,2,4,6-14R4)
- the other 3 clue will necessarily pass through R7
(this dots C1,2,4,6-14R7)
- it is possible to avoid R8, R11 and R14 so no dots can be extended yet

go ahead and do the LL to black C10R2,10 and C12R2,10 (makes the logic for C10 and C12 easier to see)

look at how the the 3 clues in the columns have to be placed. only one can go in R11 meaning the other will go into R8...and conversely, since ONLY one can go into R8 the other MUST go into R11. This dots C1-9,11,13,14R8 and C1-9,11,13,14R11.

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then you have the move ripkoops describes with the 3's that get you 16 more dots

then here's how i finished it:

in R6, the 1-3 can't go in C1-5 or it violates R5, to that black in C3R6 is the 1 clue.
whether C12R5 or C13R5 is black, C10R6 is black (cleaner than smile because of possibility of 1 clues occuring lower in the puzzle)
smile logic in lower right to finish

A little too challenging for me. But I did get the smile logic at the end. Really nice pattern visually.

Janez, that is an interesting interpretation. I like it.

David... are you sure that is really smile logic?

it is literally smile logic AND it is literally frown logic :) :(

SOMEWHAT CHALLENGING!!!? Yikes. I had to totally cheat my way through this one.

I guess I forgot to account for the fact that it's harder to solve a puzzle when you don't know what you're looking for, heh.

I like the finished product though

Wow, that's tough for such a small puzzle. Good job on the complex logic. I eventually solved it exactly how you decribed in comment #2.

wow... was tuffie again this time

Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by gator.

A puzzler after my own heart. :) Great logic in this one. SO much fun to solve puzzles on finding where dots HAVE to be.

...plus it has something similar to alternating smile logic. which, of course, is a gator speshy-AL-itty ;)

Too much guessing needed to make it fun.

The image is nonsense indeed. Not enjoyable for me. That being said, some who appreciate this level of difficulty may have found it enjoyable.

Not fun.

It's fun for people who enjoy challenges of pure logic. :)

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Looks like a very primitive comedy/drama masks from the theater, even though you said that it was "just nonsense". Enjoyed your difficult little puzzle.

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