Comments on Puzzle #10486: Shouldn't have used a pen.
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
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difficulty: 
solvability: line & color logic only
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quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
Puzzle Description:
This pink eraser will do me no good on this sudoku puzzle
#1: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Sep 27, 2010 [SPOILER]
you mean to erase the lil numbers in the corners? :)#2: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Sep 27, 2010 [SPOILER]
Yep, but the blue ink will not come out.#3: Susan Duncan (medic25733) on Sep 27, 2010
That's too bad Brian but this was a good puzzle#4: Petra Lassen (Stjarna) on Sep 27, 2010
LOL! I like your puzzles!#5: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Sep 27, 2010
Thank you Susan and Petra.#6: Teresa K (fasstar) on Sep 29, 2010
Aha, that's what that is. Amazing how the color changed like that as soon as I read the description. :-) Fun solve, Brian.#7: Hannah Johns (Nini721) on Jun 26, 2011 [SPOILER]
Funny! I've done the same thing myself with sudoku...#8: Gary Webster (glwebste) on Jan 28, 2020 [SPOILER]
I do the same thing. Crosswords, sudoku, whatever puzzles come my way ... I'm glad the delete button on THESE puzzles works!#9: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Jan 28, 2020 [SPOILER]
Keep the great puzzles coming!
Me too! I love doing crosswords in wild-colored ink. But then sometimes I want to erase and I can't, so I end up trying to write new darker letters on top of the old incorrect ones. I sometimes do Sudoko or the printed Paint-By-Numbers puzzles in Games magazine in pen, too but when that goes wrong, it goes really wrong, so I shouldn't. :-S#10: Karen Elizabeth Cairns (karxan) on Jan 28, 2020
Anyway, I really especially loved this puzzle. Fun!
Hi Brian - happens to me all the time too.#11: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 28, 2020
Number and word puzzles I use a correction snail or white out. It cures all evils of the pen.
"Pixel Puzzles" which is the Australian/NZ magazine version of WPBN I use a pencil and eraser - the paper is of a good enough quality to do so.
Happy puzzling everyone
I had quite a collection of automatic pencils, special leads and the softest, most gentle erasers available. You had to be very careful erasing anything in the Games puzzles as the paper wasn't all that great. Some paint by number books would be printed on good stock. With those I would erase a puzzle as soon as I finished it and then at a later date if I had run out of new puzzles I would redo the ones I erased.#12: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Jan 30, 2020 [SPOILER]
A friend and I would separately do the Times (usually the weekday) puzzle in the morning. When we'd meet later in the day or evening, we'd take a paper napkin and recreate it from memory. Oddly enough (or maybe not), the first bits to come back were usually any little knots where either of us had momentary trouble in the morning...that was great fun. Give it a try sometime if you like crossword puzzles.
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