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#1: Mark Conger (aruba) on Jun 6, 2005

Yowza. That was hard! Not because there were bottlenecks, but because my eyes got tired.

THis is a really good one. It was worth doing again.

I can tell this is going to be a nice design, but my computer is really complaining. Everytime it sees a 'mistake' it locks up. Only problem is, it considers scrolling through one color to get to another color a mistake. I'm pretty frustrated.

Yeah. On a few puzzles, like this you have to turn off error checking by unchecking the little checkbox under the puzzle. You get no more red-dots if you do that and no more lock ups.

Actually, they aren't lock-ups. If you wait long enough, the computer will come back. It tends to happen with lines where there are lots of small numbers, and lots of slack, and an error at the far right. The error checker is working it's way through every possible arrangement of the small bits in hopes of finding one that will work. This is all an artifact of the regular expression checking. Unfortunately, Javascript does not allow any way to put a time limit on regular expression checking. The language doesn't support interupts. I haven't been able to figure out a fix other than turning off error checking entirely.

Someday I hope to add at least a way to mark a puzzle so it warns you that you should turn off error checking.

Really nice! Does work a lot better with error checker turned off.

Wow that was difficult!

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This has been sat in my partially saveds for months, finally got round to it XD

Beautiful. I guessed what it was right away, but I really loved the intricacy. A real pleasure.

this one was one of my favorites too!

This one was really fun to do...I agree with the jigsaw analogy. Nice image.

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Used to be 25, now I believe only 10 onions. Great puzzle, thanks, Jan!

What happened to the rest of them?

Castaway aliens converted them into starships and flew away home in them.

That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure, and I didn't want to seem stupid.

lol

Awesome puzzle!

This was so much fun to solve. An excellent paint-by-number!

The title immediately brought this image to mind and it was fun to solve. Nice rendering.

So pretty. Looks just like the real thing. Well designed, and fun to solve.

Fantastic puzzle!

nice picture. not so hard

one of my absolute favorites on this site! extremely fun to solve. even with all the red, you managed to give each building depth and a unique personality. beautiful work, jan.

Unique and delightful in every way!

I've hundreds of these - this is my FAVORITE! Nice job!

This one was one of my favorites. Took a lot of time and thinking, but was able to figure it all out without guessing. Well done!

What a great solve and what a great puzzle. One of the many reasons we miss Jan.

Yes, agree with Norma.

I *just* got the forums back! I missed them so. :)

A very beautiful, rewarding solve; and a very doable puzzle. Thank you.

Uno de los puzzles más bonitos de la página. Y lógicamente soluble.

Love this puzzle

Nice job! Great solve! Very colorful.

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