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By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: some guessing  

Puzzle Description:

ZEBRA. I hope this is solvable w/o guessing. I couldn't do it, but the solution looks so nice that I couldn't NOT publish it.

#1: Tom King (sgusa) on Dec 24, 2011

Brian:

I am stuck. I placed the 2 in c2, and worked internal edge logic in column 20 as far as I could go. I'll wait for hte great minds to solve.
#2: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Dec 24, 2011
I got about 20 pixels colored in. We'll see what the other big brains come up with.
#3: Heather (heatherkewl) on Dec 24, 2011
brian, i'm about where you are. i have 23 blacks and a scattering of white dots.
#4: Tom King (sgusa) on Dec 25, 2011
I placed 26 black pixels, I have lots of dots. I don't think there is a solution,,,
#5: naum khulin (nah) on Dec 25, 2011
I solved it without guessing.Took some time.
Great puzzle!Thank you
#6: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Dec 26, 2011
I just peeked and enjoyed,great one Brian.:)
#7: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Dec 26, 2011
Probably what I would have done too.
#8: Heather (heatherkewl) on Dec 28, 2011
finally got it. it is a nice zebra. maybe you could add a 'z' in the bottom right corner
#9: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Dec 28, 2011
Cool Idea Heather. Thanks. Did you have to do any guessing?
#10: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Dec 29, 2011
i guessed
#11: ik (ik) on Jan 1, 2012
it was hard but whit a little bit of logic and a little bit of guessing it is a great puzzle nice picture!!!
#12: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 1, 2012
Thank you
#13: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Mar 11, 2012
Found to require some guessing by gator.
#14: Gator (gator) on Mar 11, 2012 [HINT]
I'm marking this as solvable with guessing. I couldn't find a good way through it. If someone thinks otherwise, then please post a way through it.
#15: Sean Wang (PianoMan) on Apr 30, 2012 [HINT]
I just solved it without guessing, but with a LOT of edge and line logic. Shoot, can't remember all my steps, but I started by getting C1-C5 filled in, and then little by little, used edge logic to figure out R1-R3 had to all be dots from C1-C20.
#16: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 30, 2012
Wow Sean, that is quite a feat. Great job.
#17: derby (Derby) on Nov 26, 2018 [HINT]
I think this is an absolutely fantastic puzzle. I solved it by trying to imagine how the twos could go in the bottom rows. I figured that they must either create a column or a brick pattern. There were no obvious columns in the down clues, so I figured the twos were created by groups of twos separated by a space. One group had to be in column 3 and 4 and another had to be column 22. Once these are in and other parts of the lower parts of the puzzle are elimated, it became easier to solve with smile logic. I just loved the way it flowed and think the final image is genius. Thanks so much

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