Puzzle Description:

Your adventure has just begun!

#1: annalivia (annalivia) on Jun 30, 2011 [SPOILER]

very interesting! what next?

Very nice, Nights.

I was thinking the same as Annalivia. I like adventures :)

Okay, I'm going to share my solving experience for those who might not get it, or who don't want to bother carrying it through to the end.

I saw the pbn grid and color number clues, which was quite tedious to solve, and a funny little short guy pointing to a black number two or the letter Z. I saw blocks of black in the grid that form the number two or a Z. Since there are no black number clues, I interpreted these blocks to be dots.

So if this is an adventure, I figured I should try to solve the puzzle, but the big dots make this unsolvable.

Then I "erased" the black blocks and solved the puzzle. Voila!

Note to Aldege: You are going to have to solve this puzzle within a puzzle in order to appreciate its design.

Cute and clever, but a lot of work for the end result.

Thanks, Teresa for your comments. I went back and "solved" the puzzle. It is cute and clever.

That puzzle took me 2 and a half hours to plan and design, so I'm glad it's depth is being appreciated.

I do not understand this at all!!!! I solved it & got it right, but I just don't get it!!!!

Not all things need to have obvious meanings -- that would be unrealistic and frankly boring.

Cindy, did you solve the puzzle within the image? I did it using my mouse right there on the screen. (Ignore the red dots.)

It looks like he is trapped within the puzzle! The paradox could be that the puzzler has become the puzzle.

See, I thought he was holding his hands up in victory (over the Z).

Teresa, I do not see a puzzle within the puzzle?!?!? Could you explain a little more about what you are talking about.

Cindy, first solve the regular 65x65 puzzle. This creates an image of another puzzle with a 10x10 grid. Ignore the upper left corner, and "erase" the "dots" in the grid (that form the number 2 or letter Z).

Now you can either print it out and solve the 10x10 or do it right there on your screen, applying the color clues with the 10x10.

I could solve it again and do a screen shot of the final effect and upload it and post a link for you if you still don't get it, but I don't have time right now. Besides, it will be more fun if you "get it" yourself without any more help. :-)

Its a Z, not a 2. It stands for Zen.

This is a really neat puzzle. As soon as I figured out what was going on, I couldn't wait to solve the first puzzle so that I could then solve the second.

Of course! I'm a little dense sometimes, but I guess we all have our moments, and as a senior citizen, I have more than a few. :-)

(prostrate) "i am not worthy..." nights, you are amazing!

I will make more Zen of P.B.N. puzzles in time. They usually take quite a bit of work to contemplate and design. Paint by Numbers is so inherently meditative that I feel these "Zen" puzzles are tributes to that kind of meditation.

...which is why i do them daily.

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