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Comments on Puzzle #15438: The Classics
By Gator (gator)

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Puzzle Description:

Four Classical Elments, Fire, Air, Earth, Water represented by a flame, wind, tree, and water drop

#1: Bruce Yanoshek (yanogator) on Aug 4, 2011 [SPOILER]

Looks like Fire, Air, Tree, Water to me. Anyway, it was a great solve, because only a few pixels at the very beginning were easy. You had to work for each one after that, but with no guessing ever required. That is my favorite kind of puzzle - Fill in a few, eliminate a few, back and forth, pixel by pixel, but 100% logic. Thanks, gator!
#2: Liz P (lizteach) on Aug 4, 2011
I liked solving this one very much.
#3: annalivia (annalivia) on Aug 4, 2011
very nice puzzle and a very nice solve.
#4: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Aug 4, 2011
ditto all 3
#5: Teresa K (fasstar) on Aug 4, 2011
Wonderful little puzzle. I like the title too.
#6: Jota (jota) on Aug 5, 2011
THANKS!
#7: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Aug 5, 2011 [SPOILER]
Trees are made up of fire + earth (with lesser extents of both air and water). When you liberate the fire, you're left with earth (the ash). The smoke is the air component, and steam is the water. (Plus everyone knows you must add water to make a tree grow.)

Just about everything was considered a mixture of the four ideal elements. I'm not sure what an alchemist would've considered "pure earth". Even metals were considered to be admixtures. Mercury, for example had "water" in it.
#8: Gator (gator) on Aug 8, 2011 [SPOILER]
Joe - yeah, I know a tree would be technically all four elements, but I choose it over "rocks" as I felt a tree would be mostly Earth.

Thanks all!
#9: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Aug 10, 2011 [SPOILER]
And it is difficult to tell what a rock is in a pixel puzzle unless you choose a famous rock like Half Dome.
#10: Mark Wenzel (cheezeman) on Aug 16, 2011 [SPOILER]
I was about to say the symbal for white was wrong and the symbol for black was missing because I've been doing your M:TG series and didn't realise until the comments this wasn't in the series. LOL fun solve all the same!
#11: Gator (gator) on Aug 17, 2011 [SPOILER]
Thanks!

I was planning on doing those symbols at a later time once I get through all the sets, but they will be their own puzzles.
#12: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Aug 3, 2014
Nice puzzle and a fun solve.

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