Comments on Puzzle #1927: Does not chew the cud
By Weeble (weeble)
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quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: deep lookahead
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: deep lookahead
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#1: Mark Conger (aruba) on Dec 2, 2007 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: Arduinna (arduinna) on Dec 2, 2007
Yeah, it doesn't look like much to me, and it's very nearly unsolvable.#3: Robert Kummerfeldt (rmkummerfeldt) on Dec 3, 2007 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints and spoilers#4: Arduinna (arduinna) on Dec 3, 2007
Ah the black and white turned my eyes inside out. I see him now.#5: Alysa Lundberg (aalundberg) on Dec 10, 2007
Thanks for the details Robert...it's obvious now.#6: Yulia (yug) on Dec 17, 2007 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints and spoilers#7: Meg Tayler (rebelcat) on Jul 6, 2008
Wow - the picture jumped right out at me! Loved it - very challenging, but satisfying.#8: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 29, 2009
Found to require some guessing by jan.#9: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Dec 9, 2011
First off, terrific image, especially for this size grid.#10: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Dec 9, 2011 [HINT]
I'm going to go ahead and post the process that I used to do what might be considered solving this with logic alone. I'll let some higher webpbn authority decide if the more complicated bits of logic require too much look-ahead. Please bear with me, it's a long explanation and you may want to stretch your comment window a little wider than normal.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#11: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jul 27, 2012
Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by jan.#12: karl (keicher) on Jun 30, 2013
deep lookahead is just guessing. stop pretending its something its not.#13: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Aug 16, 2013
solved -after some reverts.#14: Joel Lynn (furface1) on Oct 17, 2013
nice picture - especially for me as i have born in Crete.
Too hard, even with David's lengthy hint. Actually the length of the hint makes you wonder...#15: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Oct 18, 2013
A few more black cells around the edge would have made the solve less tedious.
makes you wonder what JL? :)#17: AM (adrian) on Apr 26, 2014
Nice!#18: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jun 13, 2017
I don't see it. Had to guess to finish the puzzle.#19: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Jan 9, 2018
I think the big fellow is quite easy to see, but yes, definitely too hard to solve. He looks accurate enough for the size of the picture, but he was a beast to put together.#20: RB (rb2013) on Jul 11, 2018 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#21: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Sep 10, 2018
Very difficult puzzle. Had to guess 3 times. Am having a hard time seeing the image; and what is a minotaur anyway?#22: BlackCat (BlackCat) on May 25, 2020
This puzzle seems to come up almost every other day or so.#23: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on May 26, 2020
There are very few puzzles that qualify as "brain-busting"#24: Byrdie (byrdie) on May 26, 2020
Funny - the two of my puzzles that make it onto the featured puzzles list are both listed as "Brain busting." They are difficult puzzles to solve but I think the designation might turn some away from trying them.
I admit to them having given my trouble solving them but as I become more experienced at solving it's fun to go back and retry them and other more difficult puzzles to see if they're as challenging as they once were.
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