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#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.:)

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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.

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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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