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Puzzle Description:
My son writes articles concerned with specialty coffee, signed by thumbnail like this. Check e.g. www.instagram.com/psycoffetic/
#1: Wombat (wombatilim) on Feb 16, 2018 [HINT]
EL C50 completely places the 10. LL.#2: Jota (jota) on Feb 16, 2018
C48: the 2 clue here places a black in either R40 or 42 in C47. The rest of C47 is white. LL.
C11: EL eliminates R7-20 and R39-42. LL.
R42: EL with the 7 eliminates C23-31. LL.
C26: Finishing this column makes either R39 C26-30 black or R41 C26-29 black. C27-29 each only have a single 1 clue remaining. That means C27-29 can have all remaining squares filled with white except for R39&41. LL.
R41: If the 4 is placed within C26-30, it causes a contradiction in R39, so these squares are white. LL.
R42: We can do more EL with the 7 now and eliminate C33 and C43-48. LL.
Whew! That gets us there!
great solve!#3: Susan Duncan (medic25733) on Feb 17, 2018
Good job#4: derby (Derby) on Feb 20, 2018
Love this puzzle. It wasn’t intuitive at all. Many times I thought “this can’t be right†but soldiered on expecting to find a bunch of red dots indicating errors. Only once did I get tripped up. I like the way that the image evolved out of unexpected forms. I hope your son liked at as much as I did.#5: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Feb 21, 2018
Let's see if the link still works: www.instagram.com/psycoffetic/
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