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Comments on Puzzle #20452: Turkey day
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

Puzzle Description:

You can't travel through the country of Turkey without seeing this amulet. It is called the evil eye and is used to ward off the effects of someone giving you the evil eye.

#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Nov 22, 2012

I think I need one of those.:) Nice puzzle.
#2: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Nov 22, 2012 [SPOILER]
thought it was a wreath at first
not sure how i solved it, but i got it the first try..guess i do solves afterall.
#3: Tom King (sgusa) on Nov 22, 2012 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#4: Andraya (gothicfeline) on Nov 22, 2012 [HINT]
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#5: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Nov 22, 2012 [HINT]
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#6: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Nov 22, 2012
I guessed correctly the first time, too. You may need to add an extra pixel, so there's no guessing involved. :)
#7: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Nov 22, 2012 [HINT]
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#8: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Nov 22, 2012 [HINT]
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#9: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Nov 22, 2012 [HINT]
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#10: Tom King (sgusa) on Nov 22, 2012
Joe making my mind go BOOM!!!
#11: Tom King (sgusa) on Nov 22, 2012
Joe remember the scene in the princess bride where the battle wits? Reminds of that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eZmEiyTo0
#12: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Nov 22, 2012
"Wait 'til I get going! Now, where was I?"
#13: Tom King (sgusa) on Nov 22, 2012
lmao
#14: Tom King (sgusa) on Nov 22, 2012
It was easy enough to guess. There were only two ways the 3 1s in column could go. I think some guessing or deep lookahead. Intuitively, it was easy, but that doesn't count.
#15: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Nov 23, 2012 [HINT]
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#16: Tom King (sgusa) on Nov 23, 2012
Joe: I like your logic as well, however it requires more than a two move lookahead. I can go 5 or 6 steps ahead to prove (and have done so with a very few puzzles), but it qualifies as deep look ahead after 2.
#17: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Nov 23, 2012
come on people check this out:

after initial ll/cl all you should have left are the blue 1 clues in the center area, right?

look at the 2 black pixels in r13 - each of them needs a blue pixel below it but they cant both go in r14 so at least one of them goes into r15; because of this you can dot the rest of r15 except for c11-12
ll to finish
no look ahead at all
no guessing
#18: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Nov 24, 2012
bug: nice.

Tom: I didn't claim less than deep look-ahead. See my first comment.
#19: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Nov 25, 2018
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.
#20: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Nov 25, 2018
As per bugaboo in comment 17

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