Puzzle Description:

The man in the cresent moon. See if you can resolve this puzzle in 3 minutes or less and let us know...ready steady go!

#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Nov 10, 2011

This one took a bit longer, with all those 1s and 2s. I was expecting to see a parrot, with or without a gay sarape. :)

I took a little over 3min.

Found to be logically solvable by gator.

I took more like 5 minutes.

Edge logic in several places for this one.

It took about 2:00 (try number two). I ended up just doing one dot of edge logic (C2R1) to wind around at the very end.

It took me about 5 minutes too. I got stuck looking for the logic to resolve the top row. Very fun puzzle!

2min 20 secs. my best time on any of your 3mms

2:25. Great design!

Four minutes for me.

After line logic, there's two-way logic on the 1 in c2. If it goes in r1, then c3r1 is part of the 6 and must be black.

If the 1 in c2 goes in r2, then it fulfills the 1 in r3 and c3r2 must be white, forcing c3r1 to be the 1 in c3. Thus c3r1 is black.

So, no matter where the 1 in c2 is placed, c3r1 is black.
Then line logic to finish.

-- I almost said that I don't see any edge logic in that corner, but I spoke too soon. There isn't edge logic on the 6 in r1 or the 1 in c2, but there is on the 1 in r2. Interior edge logic, with the "inside" facing the top.

Alternatively, one could recognise that there's half a smile lurking in that corner, forcing the 1 in r2 to be pushed to the outside of the 6 in r1

As usual, Marie, a very nice picture for the size.

Um, the smile logic means that there is edge logic on that 6. Never mind, look the other way...

Nice image and fun solve, Marz. :)

other than line logic, all i did was "if the 6 starts in C2 then R2 is violated, so dot". it felt like very straight-forward edge logic on an actual external edge.

1:52

as a few have mentioned above i also used straight line logic throughout until the very end with edge logic on the 6 clue in r1
great solve

Thanks all :) I just used edge logic with the 6 clue up the top too.

Some great times here, but Merili, you are still the one to beat! Well done :)

2:55 :P

Minnie is usually faster than me :)

2:38 on second try - I got messed up the first time

2:50

4:14

5 minutes even :(

Am I the only person who thought "three caballeros" from the title?

Wherever liberty is threatened?

That's Three Amigos. These were birds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYkwDXa2lhE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Okay, they were snappy sarapes, not gay (it'd been a few decades since I heard it :)

oh yeah! oops.

2:07 here. I tend to look for edge logic before I've finished solving for line logic, since finding it often makes the line logic easier.

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