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solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Al LaPointe (kancamagus) on Jun 20, 2013
very fun solve#2: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 20, 2013
thanks Al#3: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Jun 20, 2013
Luv the kurlers.:)#4: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 21, 2013
lol...not all night pal#5: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Jun 21, 2013
LOL.:)#6: Kim (kjh) on Jun 21, 2013
I am most honored! Pretty accurate, too! Thank you, Tom.#7: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Jun 22, 2013 [HINT]
i almost assuredly made this harder than it needs to be:#8: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Jun 22, 2013 [HINT]
IEL: the 4 in R3 can't got C12-15, because when the 9 accounts for the 1 in R4, the other clues violate R2.
IEL the 4 in C9, dots C9R1,2
good solve, Tom!#9: Gator (gator) on Jun 24, 2013 [HINT]
I did the iel on the 4 in R3, el the 4 in c9 as you said.... but I musta missed something, cuz I also used 2-way logic on the same 4 in c9. whether it went up or down, you could dot most of c8
The first step looks like 3 moves ahead (although not THAT hard to see), so I'm going to go with try placing the 9 clue to the top starting a row 1. Focusing on column 12, this would make R1C12, R2C12, and R4C12 dots, and R3C12 black. This makes column 12 invalid so R1C14 is a dot. This same logic will make R2C14 a dot as you move down one. Some line logic.#10: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 24, 2013
Now we can use edge logic to see that the 4 clue cannot go all the way to the right on row 3 without making row 4 invalid. More line logic.
Then the edge logic in column 9 as stated.
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by gator.#11: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 24, 2013
thx Gator
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