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Comments on Puzzle #15898: What I do to relax
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

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#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Sep 25, 2011 [HINT]

line/color logic gets all but the lower left corner (and the 2 black pixels that make up the pedal)

then "simple" edge logic on the 5 clue in r20 gets you a dot in c11 followed by "extended" edge logic on that same 5 clue (2 move look ahead) gets you one more dot at c10 which then lets you solve this out with line logic

nice solve

no guessing
#2: Teresa K (fasstar) on Sep 26, 2011
Nice puzzle, Brian. Tricky logic, but no guessing. Good way to destress.
#3: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Sep 26, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#4: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Sep 26, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#5: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Sep 26, 2011
Found to be logically solvable by gator.
#6: Gator (gator) on Sep 26, 2011 [HINT]
Nice solve.

I believe it is technically a 3-move look ahead, but it is possible to figure out that R20C10 is a dot in other ways (involves some affirmation logic). I'm not going to detail it out though unless someone wants me to as I think it is easier to "see" the 3-move look ahead.
#7: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Sep 26, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#8: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Sep 27, 2011 [HINT]
by placing a black pixel in r20c10 (via edge logic) you can fill in black pixels in r20c6-10, r19c6,8-10, and r18c10 (with their respective dots above each of those) and a dot in r19c7, and r19c11

first move look ahead is then placing a black pixel in r18c11

second move look ahead is seeing that a black can not be placed in r17c11 (due to r17 being invalid)

you could technically even count what i described in my "second move look ahead" paragraph as part of the first move look ahead step, seeing as you would be forced to place a black pixel in r17c11 when you placed the black pixel in r18c11 (since that is directly related to that step)
#9: Trish217 (Trish217) on Sep 27, 2011
At one point i thought it was architect's tools.
#10: Roland Spindler (Mikesch) on Apr 17, 2012
I don't know what it is with this puzzle, but I messed up twice solving it. At least the second time I was able to salvage most of the result, so I could finally solve it.
#11: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 17, 2012
I have puzzles that may just live permanently in my saved file.
#12: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Oct 29, 2016
I have quite a few sitting in my saved file. But this won't be one of them. Good one.
#13: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Oct 29, 2016
Wow. That was tricky to see until I finished it. Did have to guess once. Nice perspective.

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