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Comments on Puzzle #10405: Death Penalty
By James Haney (elpjrh)

peek at solution       solve puzzle
  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead?  

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#1: James Haney (elpjrh) on Sep 19, 2010 [SPOILER]

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#2: Jota (jota) on Sep 19, 2010 [SPOILER]
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#3: Minnie Fuerstnau (m.fuerstnau) on Sep 20, 2010
Interesting description, and a very good first puzzle. Welcome!
#4: Teresa K (fasstar) on Sep 20, 2010 [SPOILER]
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#5: James Haney (elpjrh) on Sep 20, 2010
I've seen my version as car magnets and window stickers, but I couldn't find an online version of it, either.
#6: Wombat (wombatilim) on Sep 20, 2010 [HINT]
No guessing, but there's a bit of tricky logic at the end.

The red & blue sections and the black around them can be solved with line & color logic.

Some edge logic on C40 will get you five of the six black placed.

More line logic until you're stuck again, then look at C40 and how placement of the missing black affects C39. If C40R11 is black: C39R11-12 are black. If C40R5 is black: C38R5 is a dot, C38R2 is black, which makes R2C37&39 dots. Either way, C39R11-12 are black. The rest solves with line logic.

This is probably 2 steps ahead, but it was direct enough that I could follow it in my head without trying it. I imagine we'll need a judgement call from Gator for final determination.
#7: James Haney (elpjrh) on Sep 21, 2010 [SPOILER]
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#8: Teresa K (fasstar) on Sep 21, 2010
Keep creating, James. You have talent.
#9: Petra Lassen (Stjarna) on Sep 22, 2010
No guessing needed!
#10: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Jun 18, 2012 [SPOILER]
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#11: Bryan (Cyclone) on Feb 5, 2014 [HINT]
Though I only found 4 cells by edge logic in C40, the logic pertaining to R11C39 in comment #6 stands true. Once filled, it's line logic for the finish.

Gator, get in here and mark this as a non-guessing puzzle, please. My only question is moderate lookahead vs. deep lookahead.
#12: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Oct 28, 2017
Interesting story.
#13: Ailsa Hebert (bazette3) on Nov 2, 2021
Nice puzzle....enjoyed the solve! Thanks!

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