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#1: Marie-Louise Ambrey (marz71) on Sep 27, 2011 [HINT]

Great puzzle Aldege, and quite the challenge near the end too, I found it to be solvable by logic alone, just when I thought I would have to resort to logical guessing I found what I needed with some edge logic with the 2 in column 12.
Thanks for a fun puzzle, love the image :)

very fun solve
no guessing

after line logic ends here is what i did (you can do this is either order):

1)
look at the 4 clues in c10/11 (they have to fit in r24-30 somehow)
they cant both extend up into r24 or down into r30 (this violates c12) so they at least partially staggered and so at least one of the black pixels from the 4 clues in c10-11 will be in r26 and at least one of them will be in r28

this means the black pixel in c6 is the 1 clue in each of those rows (26 and 28) so you can dot c1/4/5/7/8 in r26 and r28

similarly (due to violating c12 again) the black 4 clues in c10-11 cant both be in r25-28 or in 26-29 so the most they can overlap is 2 pixels so at least 1 of the black pixels from the 4 clues in c10-11 must be in r25 and at least one of them must be in r29

so now you can dot c1/4/5/7/8 in r25 (but not in r29)
a little more line logic

2)
now if the 16 clue in c6 extends all the way to r13 one move later you will have a violation at r13c4 so the 16 clue in c6 extends down to at least r29 (now you can dot c1/4/5/7/8 in r29 and it solves out with line logic

maybe there is an easier way?

thx marz and bug,i'm glad you enjoyed it.

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That's the dropped pole Kristen,and thank you.

Found to be logically solvable by gator.

bugaboo - I do not see an easier way.

thank you gator

Thx Gator.

Quite fun! A neat image.

This is the second time I've done this puzzle. Again, it was a very fun solve.

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