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#1: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Nov 16, 2011 [SPOILER]

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Elegant and sexy. :)

thanks kristen...was sexier before i had to make it solvable ;)

Wow really nice David.:)

very stylish (?)

Wow - beautiful puzzle! I did get stuck at one point and kept coming back to it to see if I could figure out any more edge logic that I missed before. I never did find it, so I made an educated guess and was right. It was fun to solve to the very end. Lovely image.

Thanks to everyone. At some point I'll post some hints.

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Found to require some guessing by gator.

i honestly don't remember this one being that hard, but i test solved it for several iterations and could very well have made a lucky mistake in the last one. i'll check this one soon.

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i totally vote this as logically solvable
great finds, especially your first step

how do you keep track of stuff like that? i mean lets assume you suppose a certain cell to be black, and you solve out a little way from there... how do you decide to focus on any given cell to see if it will always be black or a dot, (depending on what other initial choice you assume to be black)?
specifically, how did you come to focus on c25r23 out of all the surrounding cells you could have focused on?

Sorry David, I couldn't do it, may be I made a mistake.
Bugaboo: how did you find it solvable if you don't follow ?

i followed his steps but i guess my question wasnt clear (to either you or dbouldin)

What question?

LOL

dbouldin i guess there were technically 3 questions that i asked you in comment 12 (and so you dont have to click the extra button allowing you to view previous comments i will copy and paste what i wrote here):

"how do you keep track of stuff like that? i mean lets assume you suppose a certain cell to be black, and you solve out a little way from there... how do you decide to focus on any given cell to see if it will always be black or a dot, (depending on what other initial choice you assume to be black)?
specifically, how did you come to focus on c25r23 out of all the surrounding cells you could have focused on?"

oh...THAT/those question(s)! i think you asked me something similar in another puzzle thread and i responded intending it to be a response to both. nothing special really...patience. i focus primarily on the areas where something/anything can be known and start imagining the consequences of certain if/then's for the different conditions that must be...hmmm, hard to explain. mostly it's the same as everyone else. on this puzzle i obsessed a little more than normal because it was my puzzle and the way i logically solved it before was flawed and i REALLY didn't want to post a new version.

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