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Comments on Puzzle #21230: a type of chewy candy....(bugaboo special...but no guessing!)
By Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

Puzzle Description:

is a gummy bear. this one, however, is a Gummi Bear. Cubbi, from the Disney cartoon....

#1: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Mar 1, 2013 [HINT]

if and when you get stuck....you can indeed logically narrow down the realm in which a number clue must lie without the use of deep look-ahead or a guess. it'll solve after that.

that's as much of a hint as I'll give for now.....
#2: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Mar 1, 2013
Great puzzle! I must confess. I guessed based on what I had solved up to that point and luckily I was right.
#3: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Mar 1, 2013 [HINT]
thanks, Norma :)

ok...it's the 4 clue in the second to last row in which you really need to pay attention. (hope you can see what I'm talking about. I don't think it's deep look-ahead anyway...not even gonna attempt to explain it)
#4: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Mar 1, 2013
interested to see what bug, bouldin, infrapink, etc have to say. I'll re-tweak if one of em calls it deep
#5: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Mar 1, 2013
you are making it too hard


after initial ll:

el the 7 clue in c20 to dot r15
ll to finish
no guessing
#6: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Mar 1, 2013
7 clue is in c21....

hummmm, yeah. didn't see it before. overly tired today...
#7: Jota (jota) on Mar 1, 2013
Not deep, just super cute! Thanks!
#8: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Mar 2, 2013
same solve as bug. cool puzzle. i assume the difficulty rating spiked in the beginning because you implied it was hard from the get-go ;)
#9: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Mar 2, 2013
yeppers... lol

thanks :)
#10: BlackCat (blackcat) on Mar 3, 2013
Not fun.
#11: Tom King (sgusa) on Mar 3, 2013
I enjoyed it. Same solve as well.
#12: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 26, 2013
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by gator.
#13: Gator (gator) on Jun 26, 2013
Nice puzzle.
#14: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Jun 26, 2013
thanks Gator! :)
#15: Eric (kelalatir) on Dec 16, 2021 [SPOILER]
Great puzzle!

The Gummi Bear TV show theme song is now stuck in my head...
#16: Gary Webster (glwebste) on Apr 9, 2024 [HINT]
For me, figuring out where to put the first "4" in row 6 was the key. Once I figured it couldn't be in column 15, the rest came very cleanly.

This was a very very fun solve! And a cute picture as well.

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