Puzzle Description:

A sommelier cuting the neck off a champagne bottle or a Ghostbuster's ghost being dumped in a vat of ectoplasm?

#1: Tom King (sgusa) on Mar 8, 2013 [HINT]

The 4 r1 has to go in c4-7. I had some other EL written down, but I think this solves it with LL. My other notes were 4 c3 not r1-5, r2 middle 2 not c11, 14.

finally a recent puzzle that requires more than simple ll

after initial ll:
i also started with el on the 4 clue in r1 to completely place it in c4-7
ll
el the 3 clue in r1 to dot c11-12
ll to finish
no guessing

Glad you enjoyed, bug ;

I see it as an opportunity for Aldège to get lucky,a bottle of wine,a wine glass,and a single rose.:)

The Temperance League came armed with a bow and arrow.

Who took the springs off the table lamp? It almost knocked over my wine!

Pierre the high wire artiste is about to dive into the water tower.

This cask has a spigot in the middle. Fill my glass please.

A strange vase. The top is closed over, but there is a hole in the neck to insert the flower.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

The sommelier's tool adds a really nice non-symmetrical touch. I liked this puzzle!

i think i'm missing something, EL on the 4 didn't completely place it for me like it did for bug. anyway, i made one move of advanced logic and the rest was LL for me:

- 2-way the 3 in C18, dots C15R3

wonderful solve by the way.

David - in the edge logic on the 4 in r1, we must use deep edge logic -- comparing it to r3 rather than r2.

The 3 in r3 is already pinned by the black pixel in c16. And as the range of the 4 in r1 is limited to c3-12 (due to the 3 in r1), under the 4 there can only be 1s in r3.

So the only place you can place the 4 in r1 (within c3-12) that will produce only blocks of one in r3 is c4-7.


Your way also works beautifully.

I like Norma's perspective in comment #6. I would love to use such an avant-garde piece in my decorating for some sort of bizarro, warped-out world kind of room design. I would use a single blue iris in tinted blue water.

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