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Comments on Puzzle #30869: Restored 26033: "210"
By Joe (infrapinklizzard)

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Socrates

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Feb 12, 2018 [SPOILER]

This was (and also is) my 210th puzzle. Published in April of 2015, shortly after Jan Wolter passed away, it was the puzzle where I surpassed the number of Jan's puzzles on the site. So I decided to make a tribute to him.

The thing that impressed me the most about Jan was his thoughtfulness. He looked at both sides of everything and made deliberate decisions. On the original puzzle, I linked to an essay on his site http://greatgreenroom.org/ but it is now down. So the best I can do is give a quote of Socrates that exemplifies Jan:

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."

#2: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Feb 12, 2018
This is a challenging and rewarding puzzle. Thank you.
#3: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Feb 13, 2018
I had forgotten the subject matter. I kept trying to make it a mother holding her baby, but that baby kept getting uglier and uglier. :)
#4: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Feb 13, 2018
Lol @ #3!
#5: Belita (belita) on Feb 15, 2018
When a lot of puzzles disappeared from this site, the ones I really regret losing are all the ones we made after Jan's passing to remember and honor him.
#6: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Feb 19, 2018
What is it? I quit because I found it very tedious and it didn't appear to becoming anything I could recognized.
#7: Susan Duncan (medic25733) on Feb 25, 2018
I enjoyed doing this puzzle again because it was a fitting tribute. Thanks
#8: derby (Derby) on Feb 27, 2018
I liked this puzzle and found it quite difficult. Thanks Joe and congrats on producing so many fine puzzles.
#9: Jane Butcher (jane-o) on Oct 24, 2018
I thought it was going to be a blue blob riding a horse. It is actually a really nice looking horse. I loved the tribute. Jan gave us many continuing hours of puzzling and his legacy lives on.
#10: Kathy Roth (clyde) on Dec 26, 2018
Great puzzle and commentary.
#11: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Dec 26, 2018
Thanks, everyone.

Hey, https://greatgreenroom.org/ is back up! I still can't remember which essay I linked to. One I particularly enjoyed though, is his essay on knowledge and faith: https://greatgreenroom.org/item_16.html

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