Comments on Puzzle #2040: "I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."
By Nancy Snyder (naneki)
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solvability: much guessing?
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quality: difficulty: solvability: much guessing?
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#1: Merili (merilinnuke) on May 8, 2008
Beautiful work!!!#2: Susan Christophel (SusanChristophel) on Sep 10, 2008
I really struggled with this one. Especially when it came down to her right eye and mouth. I left it in frustration many times, to return in a few days to try a new approach. It felt wonderful to finally solve it! What a gorgeous design -- the artist really captured her in this medium.#3: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on Sep 10, 2008
Thank you for the compliment..& I'm sorry it was frustrating you..I am trying to improve on my puzzles#4: Jan Wolter (jan) on Nov 10, 2009
This puzzle is one of the ones that I used as a sample puzzle in my Survey of Paint-by-Number Puzzle Solvers as an example of a larger, more difficult puzzle that still has a unique solution. This is actually one of the toughest puzzles in the sample set. My solver can do it in 5 seconds, but most solvers take at least 5 minutes and many can't solve it at all.#5: Barry Watson (bwatson) on Jun 10, 2013I wonder if Nancy would be willing to give permission to allow this puzzle to be freely redistributed as part of a standard test set for developers of new solving programs.
The attribution and copyright would be retained.
5 minutes, really? It took me about 5 hours. Very beautiful puzzle. I think this is my favorite Marilyn.
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