Puzzle Description:

Every time it rains I remember I need a new umbrella

#1: Jota (jota) on May 22, 2012

No guessing, color logic all the way!

Umbrella puzzles are popular in here, but the rain was a nice challenge :)

Keep making and solving more!

Got to the upper right rain and guessed, was wrong so changed my guess and finished.

Thanks for the comments - I was kinda scared to read them being my first go at creating a puzzle!

I am encouraged! :-)

after initial line/color logic (you only have a little blue remaining in the upper right corner at this point, but alas color logic alone can not solve this last part):

the two blue pixels in c17r1-2 are both part of "2" clues in those two rows but they cant both go to the left into c16 so at least one of them (or both) must go into c18 so r2c18 is blue
ll to finish
no guessing

Hi Bugaboo. Thanks for ur comment, but I'm not sure I follow the last part, 'II to finish. No guessing'. Also, I did manage to figure it out using logic, but I will have another go to double-check. Thanks

I checked again, & it is definitely possible to solve solely using logic.

Kirstin: ll means line logic.

Nice puzzle, Kirstin.

The logic was a bit tricky there at the end. It seemed I had to look ahead about 3 moves, but since the puzzle was small, it was not to difficult to look ahead in my head.

Kirsten, as a beginner, it's usually a good idea to only create puzzles that definitely require no guessing (the checker will tell you). Rain drops are very hard to make solvable. "Partly cloudy" weather is easier (for puzzle creation), but then you wouldn't need your umbrella. :-)

The last little bit was tricky but with so few pixels left, I used "context logic". The raindrops aren't going to suddenly slant in the other direction. I know, I know...there's no such thing as context logic but there should be.

I used that too. Call it physics logic :)

An unusual umbrella, the shaft is not in the center.

I used "physics logic" - did not feel like looking multiple moves ahead.

Found to be logically solvable by gator.

I solved the last part thinking about it a little different. Focusing on the 2 clue in column 18, it you place it all the way to the top (row 1), this will cause column 16 to be invalid as there will be no place to put the 1 clue (this is edge logic by the way). So R1C18 is a dot. The rest was line logic.

This puzzle was a little tricky, but was fun to solve - I love the picture! Thx 4 your creative, Kirstin!

Thanks for the puzzle. It was surprisingly challenging for a small puzzle and I enjoyed solving it.

I used "edge" logic to get the blue 2 in C19. If either pixel next door in C20 was true, there was no solution.

Edging in C18 at the top then made R1C18 false.

From there, LL FTW!

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