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Comments on Puzzle #16350: Old Paint
By Janet (jltho)

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#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Nov 12, 2011

line/color logic until the last bit of black at the end

look at rows 7/8 which have a 3 and a 4 (respectively) left to finish

the both cant go to the left in c19 (which only has a "1" left in it) and they both cant go to the right in c22 for the same reason that it only has a "1" left in it so the 1 clue in c19 goes in either r7 or r8 and you can dot the rest of that column

after that i am not sure if any way of solving the rest was 2 or if was 3 moves look ahead
#2: Janet (jltho) on Nov 12, 2011
I knew those few pixels were a problem but it was fairly easy otherwise. If there was yellow...I'd do a background!
#3: Emily Davies (scaramoucheEm) on Nov 12, 2011 [HINT]
Cute puzzle! Is that the name of the horse or does it just have old chipping paint?
#4: Janet (jltho) on Nov 12, 2011
Or both?!
#5: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Nov 12, 2011
very nice image Janet.:)
#6: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Nov 12, 2011
Sweet :)
#7: Teresa K (fasstar) on Nov 12, 2011
What a cool puzzle, Janet. The solve was challenging with having to look several moves ahead, but it wasn't too hard to do, very enjoyable. Clever title too. :-)
#8: Avgvstvs (Avgvstvs) on Nov 12, 2011 [HINT]
No guessing. And didn't require me to look any moves ahead, just regular line logic.
#9: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 5, 2011
Found to be logically solvable by gator.
#10: Gator (gator) on Dec 5, 2011 [HINT]
Continuing what bugaboo was saying, if the 4 clue is completed with R8C22-R8C23, then looking one move ahead, R8C18-R8C19 are dots, but so are R9C22 and R9C23. Looking one more move ahead, row 9 says R9C18 is black and column 18 says R9C18 is a dot which is a contradiction. So R8C23 has to be a dot.

The rest was line logic.

Avgvstvs - this one did require some advanced logic to finish.

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