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Comments on Puzzle #17130: Theridiida Latrodectus
By ryan moore (solar)

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  version: 3    quality:   difficulty:   solutions: multiple    solvability: some guessing?  

Puzzle Description:

The Black Widow Spider. Theridiida Latrodectus is the scientific name

#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jan 13, 2012

New version published by solar.
#2: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 13, 2012
Very nice, and completely solvable. I would recommend that you crop 10 columns from the right and 10 rows from the bottom. Just resize your picture to 40x40, and it'll take off the extra white spaces.
#3: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Jan 13, 2012 [SPOILER]
See puzzles # 614, 819, 3330 (and others).
#4: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Jan 13, 2012
Yes a very nice image,but Kristen is right,why all that wasted space? I see a lot of people doing this,more people will try to solve your puzzle if you try to keep them smaller.:)
#5: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jan 13, 2012
this is absolutely NOT solvable without guessing kristen as the upper left corner has multiple solutions (and by default requires guessing)
its a shame too because this was a nice image
#6: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 13, 2012
Oh, drat. It seemed solvable at the time. :)
#7: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jan 24, 2012
New version published by solar.
#8: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jan 26, 2012
Okay, I read the comments, and saw that a new version was published, so I thought I'd give it a try to see if it is fixed. I was able to do some edge logic, but in the end, there was no way to solve it. Sorry, but it is still not solvable without guessing.

I suggest that for now you stick to creating puzzles that do not have multiple solutions and definitely do not require guessing. You will get a better response. :-)
#9: ryan moore (solar) on Feb 3, 2012
Sorry, I could not find any way to avoid the multiple solutions. I have tried everything I can think of to avoid it but nothing worked that still looked good.

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