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Comments on Puzzle #19651: Thursday, 8/30
By Tom King (sgusa)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

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

I kept thinking it was going to be a satellite dish. Dumb me.
#2: Tom King (sgusa) on Aug 27, 2012
Bad image, but thanks, Norma!
#3: Jota (jota) on Aug 27, 2012
I'm with Norma!
#4: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on Aug 27, 2012
i'm with jota :)
#5: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Aug 27, 2012
i'm with trav :)
#6: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Aug 27, 2012
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.
#7: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Aug 27, 2012
Hey. I made the Vince Lombardi puzzle in honor of the new football season.
#8: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Aug 27, 2012 [HINT]
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.
#9: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Aug 27, 2012
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...
#10: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Aug 27, 2012 [SPOILER]
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#11: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Aug 27, 2012 [SPOILER]
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#12: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Aug 27, 2012 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#13: Joel Lynn (furface1) on Aug 28, 2012 [SPOILER]
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#14: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Aug 29, 2012 [HINT]
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.

#15: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Aug 29, 2012 [SPOILER]
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#16: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Aug 29, 2012
mizzou tigers, ofc..... lol
#17: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Aug 30, 2012
now that they are SEC, mizzou went from being the "tigers" to the "other tigers" ;)
#18: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Aug 30, 2012
Nah, Auburn is already the other tigers. ;)
#19: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Aug 30, 2012
you mean the tigereagles?
#20: Joel Lynn (furface1) on Aug 30, 2012
or is it the tigerwareagles?
#21: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 31, 2013
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.
#22: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Aug 2, 2018 [SPOILER]
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