Puzzle Description:

College Football Kickoff!!!

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Aug 26, 2012

I kept thinking it was going to be a satellite dish. Dumb me.

Bad image, but thanks, Norma!

I'm with Norma!

i'm with jota :)

i'm with trav :)

I'm with Tom :)

wait, no I'm not. lol I knew was gonna be a football. silly norma must not be a fan of the game.

Hey. I made the Vince Lombardi puzzle in honor of the new football season.

Aaargh! I typed up a (lengthy) hint, went back to look at the puzzle, rated it, and hit "View Comments", thus destroying my comment that I hadn't yet posted.

So here goes again:
Edge logic to start and more edge logic. I missed the EL on the 3 in c4 for a while - it seems to be necessary.

There is a zigzag to end. Obvious to a practiced eye, but oh-so-hard to prove so often. But this time there is a way with only moderate lookahead. The key is some extended edge logic on the remaining 2 in r16.

There are only three possible positions for it:

If it goes in c14-15, then each of those pixels must be extended up into r15 because each of those columns have a 2 clue. This satisfies both rows 16 & 15 leaving nowhere for the 1 in c17 to go.

Likewise if it goes in c15-16, it again makes a 2x2 block and leaves nowhere for the 1 in c17 to go.

Therefore it must go in c16-17, and let the zigzag begin.

thanks, Joe! I was wondering about it, and figured the key was down in the bottom right.... didn't feel like spending the time to prove it when it was an obvious zigzag. lazy me...

Tom,it actually is a pretty good image,i'm not sure why you don't think it is.I LOVE FOOTBALL by the way.:)

The zigzag was obvious to me, too. It turned my nice, big satellite dish into a football on a stand, though. ;)

I was a good little boy with all of the outline. I did my edge logic and worked by way around. Then came the stair step down the middle. I had a 50/50 shot at guessing the right starting square in the lower right corner and chose well. Touchdown!

I'm with Brian. And this football looks a little skinny, needs to be more inflated. But I appreciate the sentiment intended. I like college football much more than the NFL. Go Hokies!

i was looking in the same place as you, joe, once line logic ended. here is my hint wording:

whether C17R15 or C17R16 is black, C15R16 will be a dot

line logic from there.

...and GEAUX TIGERS!!!!!!!!!

mizzou tigers, ofc..... lol

now that they are SEC, mizzou went from being the "tigers" to the "other tigers" ;)

Nah, Auburn is already the other tigers. ;)

you mean the tigereagles?

or is it the tigerwareagles?

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

Furface has a sharp eye -- this is Tom Brady's football (sorry, TB, luv you and the Pats, just had to to raise the obvious ...)
Btw, deflategate was complete BS - the referees touch the ball before every play. If it was underinflated, it was their job to detect it and rectify it. If they couldn't tell, neither could anyone else.

Goto next topic

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