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#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 6, 2010 [HINT]

You thought this would be easy... until it wasn't.

Near the end, there is an "H" shaped section unsolved from c25r11 to c30r18 with two black squares in the center.

Take the 4 in column 26. If it was to reach down into row 18, then the 4 in column 25 would have to extend from r14-17. That creates a conflict with the 4 in row 14, thus r18c26 is white. Which makes c26r14 black, and r14c30 white.

Now take the 3 in column 30. There are two regions in which it can go. Let's try the upper one.
If the 3s in columns 29-30 are in rows 11-13, then the rest of those rows and columns would be white. That would force the 4 in row 14 to extend to column 25. Now, both 4s in c14&15 must go from r14-r17. However that leaves nowhere for the 1 in row 18.
Therefore c30r16-18 are white.

Now it's back to easy-peasy.

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Awesome image, Joe...I didn't know what it was until the very end. Hope the picnic was fun!

Lovely puzzle, and an excellent challenge at the end!

Can't see the image. Looks like abstract. Not fun.

it took a minute for the image to "pop" after solving. I can see it now. (BlackCat, look at monkeyboy's description, it helps and step way back.)

Nice one.

And here I thought it was going to be ants! Nice puzzle, and i used some logical guessing at the end.

Nice!

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

I used two-way logic on the 2 clue in row 16. Since it has to either go in columns 25-26 or 29-30 and the resulting black would satisfy row 18, we know that R18C27 and R18C28 are both dots.

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