Comments on Puzzle #16568: Marz's Challenge by Rhodyboy
By Levi Ross (rhodyboy888)
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: moderate lookahead
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Dec 2, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: Levi Ross (rhodyboy888) on Dec 2, 2011 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#3: Levi Ross (rhodyboy888) on Dec 2, 2011
I had to guess. The computer said it had a unique solution and I was in a rush so I submitted it. I don't think it is solvable by logic alone. Sorry guys. :(#4: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Dec 2, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#5: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Dec 2, 2011 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#6: Jota (jota) on Dec 2, 2011
I had to guess.#7: Levi Ross (rhodyboy888) on Dec 2, 2011
Yea - I usually try the combo two-way logic whenever I am truly stumped. It was hard for this puzzle because I already knew the solution so I just wound up guessing.#8: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Dec 2, 2011
Your making me hungry Levi,good job.:)#9: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Dec 2, 2011 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#10: Tom King (sgusa) on Dec 2, 2011 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#11: Teresa K (fasstar) on Dec 3, 2011
Haha, you guys are funny.#12: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Dec 4, 2011 [HINT]
Levi, your comment #2 should be classified as a spoiler, not a hint.
David, telling us what your moves felt like didn't really help if you didn't give us the coordinates. So I don't think that counts as a hint. But thanks anyway.
Kristen, assuming a few 2x2 squares is guessing, not a hint.
Tom, your hint is a real hint. I'd say thanks, but I got as far as you did and am stuck in the same spot. Arrggghhh.
Jota, I'm with you - have to guess to finish this one.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#13: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Dec 4, 2011
dbouldin i had almost everything you had for a while when i got stuck#14: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Dec 4, 2011 [HINT]
i was reading over your hints and i was confused about one of them (upon which the rest apparently hinges):
about halfway through your hints, you wrote "EL C2 to dot C3R14-15"
how did you do that?
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#15: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 5, 2011
Found to be logically solvable by gator.#16: Gator (gator) on Dec 5, 2011
Probably one of the hardest 20x20s out there. Great solve.#17: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Dec 5, 2011
that worked#18: Tom King (sgusa) on Dec 8, 2011 [HINT]
thanks
great solve
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#19: John Macdonald (perlwolf) on Feb 24, 2013 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#20: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Dec 8, 2017
Nice slice of pizza. Looks yummy. For the left edge of the pizza, I used lookahead all the way down and found that it never contradicted any columns and rows. I suppose that is technically guessing, but you must admit, if it wasn't the correct solution, it probably would not have worked all the way down.#21: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Dec 9, 2017
Lookahead is a valid logical step. Note that the solvability is listed as "moderate lookahead".#22: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Dec 9, 2017
I just felt that I settled and didn't rule out other options before I went ahead. After all, just because the direction I went in worked as far as I took it, didn't mean that another way wouldn't work. The way I settled for could have led me down a false path after I'd gone quite a ways. Obviously lookahead is valid, but I felt with this particular puzzle at a particular spot, it needed more. Maybe, maybe not. I think I'm at the solving stage of a sophomore, which means "wise fool." I think I know everything that I'm doing, but I've still got things to learn. Neehee. ;D#23: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Dec 9, 2017
Sorry, double post.#24: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Jul 9, 2019 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#25: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Jul 9, 2019 [SPOILER]
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