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#1: julius nadas (jnadas) on Oct 28, 2007

I'm stuck. is there any way to find out if anyone else has done this one yet?

Almost gave up, but eventually solved it. Took a lot of guessing and undoing though.. Must be the hardest one I've solved so far. Thanks for the challenge :)

Yes Julius! Place your pointer on any part of the puzzle name/ number and a screen pops up that allows you to view all kinds of information about that puzzle. Including how many people have solved it! Pretty cool feature. ^>^

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I only made it to the end thanks to "trial and error", as you said it..

Yes..it was hard, but I think I might have gone thru it easier 'cause I knew what the end result looked like

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congradulations

I don't think this puzzle is solvable unless you do some trial-and-error work. Too many of the pixels are determined by multi-line interactions. It is certainly not solvable by single-line logic alone.

This puzzle is one of the ones that I used as a sample puzzle in my Survey of Paint-by-Number Puzzle Solvers as an example of a larger, more difficult puzzle that still has a unique solution. Most good solving programs can handle it in times ranging from a 10th of a second to 18 minutes.

I wonder if Nancy would be willing to give permission to allow this puzzle to be freely redistributed as part of a standard test set for developers of new solving programs.

I solved it and I like it, however, his name is Rhett.

Oh, shoot! He isn't Brett Rutler? ;)

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