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Comments on Puzzle #151: Merlin
By Martial (marso)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solutions: multiple    solvability: some guessing  

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#1: Martial (marso) on Nov 3, 2007

I would say this one is quite hard.

Again if I'm not mistaken there should be only one solution, except for a small square 3x3 with a diagonal in it.
When you reach this spot, there should be no problem filling it correctly, if everything else is in place...
#2: theo van emmen (theo) on Jan 15, 2005
it is not a logic puzzle, when there is more than one solution.
#3: Mark Conger (aruba) on Jan 16, 2005
There is that little bit of ambiguity, but as Martial said, it's not hard to guess how the author intended it to be completed.
#4: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jan 17, 2005
I thought it was pretty easy. Lots of black. Image is nice. Main defect was the little bit of guessing at the end. I'm inclined to think that could be fixed without much harm to the image.
#5: Martial (marso) on Nov 3, 2007
I did some manipulations to reduce the guessing part, but was afraid of making too heavy lines. Any amelioration can only be welcome!
#6: Adam Nielson (monkey) on May 1, 2008
It is fine. Anyone can figure out where the last 3 squares should go, looking at the rest of the image.
#7: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Jun 6, 2009
Second time around, I like this image even more. Excellent work.
#8: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jan 12, 2012
this is quite a nice image
too bad about the multiple solutions
#9: Bryan (Cyclone) on Dec 1, 2013
Just as a note, I've submitted a new version of this at #23262 as part of my new project to take older unsolvable puzzles and make them logically solvable. This was largely unchanged there, and full copyright remains with the original designer (Martial).

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