Comments on Puzzle #35136: Offbeat Occupation 2
By Joe (infrapinklizzard)
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: moderate lookahead
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on May 28, 2021 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#2: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Jun 6, 2021 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#3: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 6, 2021
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.#4: Joanne Firla (JoFirla) on Jun 6, 2021
I've got the same question, CB.#5: Joanne Firla (JoFirla) on Jun 6, 2021 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Jun 6, 2021 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#7: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Jun 7, 2021 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#8: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Jun 7, 2021 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 7, 2021
BT & CB: Unfortunately that is not Purist Approved[TM]. The purist way to do a puzzle is to make sure that every step is provable. Going with a stair-step pattern is progressing by assumption, which is guessing.#10: Harry Plantinga (hplan) on Jun 11, 2021
The only way that progression by assumption is purist approved is when the assumption comes to a conflict. Then you can prove that the assumption is wrong.
Even if your assumption leads you to a solution, you haven't proven that it is *THE* solution, but only that it is *A* solution.
If there are multiple solutions, how can a proof make a difference? It's still only a proof that this is *A* solution.#11: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 11, 2021
Or maybe a good deterministic proof is ALSO a proof that there is only one solution. But is that really part of what must be proved to solve a puzzle in the Purist Approved[TM] fashion?
Purist Approved[TM] solving is when every pixel you place is known to be 100% correct. If you know (through logic) that every pixel you place is 100% accurate, then there can be no other solution.#12: Liz P (lizteach) on Jun 11, 2021
Vice-versa, if there is more than one solution then you cannot reach any solution without having guessed at some point. Which also implies that if you reach a solution after having guessed, there is no way of knowing whether it is only one of several solutions.
I thought Purist Approved[TM] solving was when you did it in pen.#13: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 11, 2021
(Great solve, fun image, and my "archer" definitely has to help me with things that fall to earth.)
I gave up doing them in pen because it was getting so hard to see what was on my monitor. Actually, being 100% sure that every pixel you're marking is correct is the same in principle as doing it in pen. (Just less monitor washing)#14: Ailsa Hebert (bazette3) on Jun 18, 2021
Great puzzle! Enjoyed the solve and Thanks!#15: Koreen (mom24plus) on May 13, 2022 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#17: Judy LeTourneau (Izzy) on May 15, 2022 [SPOILER]
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