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#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jul 27, 2012

Good puzzle to introduce the concept. Can really get challenging.

I like it!

So people are already doing cool things with this that I never thought of.

LOL! I also wanted to test this. Thanks!

Hmm. I switched from my iPad to my desktop computer, so I could fill in the clues more quickly. On the desktop, every column had a red dot at the top, and I couldn't make any black squares (only a blank square and a dot).

I don't know if anyone else has had this problem.

interesting concept kadou

Kristen - yes, other people have reported this problem. But it might be because they have an old version of the Javascript loading from cache.

Interesting, Kadou. I guess I am a traditionalist. I would prefer accounting for numbers of colored squares rather than the number of clues in a column. I don't know how to create a puzzle using this method (or if I would want to). I rated it high in creativity (quality), and low in difficulty (it was pretty easy). I had to refresh to determine this was the actual intent of the puzzle.

Thanks David and Tom!
This puzzle would have been "Trivial" to solve without blotting. It opens up for a whole new type of puzzle creating and solving. When creating, blotting clues is useless if it makes a multiple solutions puzzle.
Like Tom, I am a traditionalist - I even prefer the original marks and spaces puzzle concept (i.e black and white) over colored puzzles.

Tom, when creating puzzles there is now a new button that looks just like this puzzle that you can click on to put yourself in clue-blotting mode. Then you click on clue numbers to blot them out.

It's very easy to get multiple solutions after blotting out clues, so it needs to be done with care.

I think it might be good for boring little-white space puzzles into real puzzles, for hiding the symmetry of symmetrical puzzles, and for throwing a little variety into life.

Nicely done, Kadou. I am also a traditionalist, so I was not especially excited by this "new fangled" twist to puzzling. I'm just glad I'm willing to try something new, because this is a bit of a brain thrill. :-)

Thanks Teresa!

cool Kadou and thx again Jan

Thanks Tom!
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Thanks again Jan! :)

Good 1st blot puzzle.

It's neat to see a bit of history--I remember wondering what the first blot puzzles were like, and now I have a reference point. This was fun on its own, too.

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