Comments on Puzzle #22392: Gently
By Kristen Vognild (kristen)
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version: 2 quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: line logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
version: 2 quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
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#1: Thomas Genuine (Genuine) on Jul 17, 2013
Good (hard) puzzle.#2: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jul 17, 2013 [SPOILER]
Who is it? A bet he can be a poet from 18th or 19th century...
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#3: Jota (jota) on Jul 17, 2013
Great solve!#4: Lollipop (lollipop) on Jul 17, 2013
Wonderful! Thank you.#5: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Jul 17, 2013 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: Wombat (wombatilim) on Jul 17, 2013 [HINT]
Wow, that was a challenge.#7: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jul 18, 2013
There is a whole lot of 2-step logic in this puzzle, enough that I lost track of all of it while I was trying to solve and don't have a clear enough memory of it for a proper solving guide.
Some key areas I do remember:
After LL, you can look at C10 and C34 and use those options to finish C11 and C33.
You can figure out where half of the upper 4 clue in C13 goes by looking at the possibilities for the 4 clue in C12.
You can follow this up by looking at the 9 clue in C15 and working out its upper limit based on how C12-14 would interact with it.
Next I looked at R1-2 and eliminated a few possible placements, which resulted in a dot in R2C21.
You can look at C10 and work out that C13R4 needs to be filled no matter how C10 is finished.
From here my memory gets fuzzy on what I did, but there was a lot of chipping away at the edges looking for contradictions, until I could narrow down some of the "single remaining clue" columns.
New version published by kristen.#8: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jul 18, 2013
Sorry, Wombat. I made some changes to the first 2 rows, and now it's LLS.#9: Jay Hughes (bfavrehof74) on Jul 18, 2013 [SPOILER]
The rest of the image is intact.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#10: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jul 18, 2013
Great solve. Glad I solved it after the changes.#11: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Jul 18, 2013
Thanks!#12: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jul 19, 2013 [HINT]
If you look at version one, you can see how few pixels I changed. :)
So, that was a bit frustrating. I had a long list of instructions to post and then I got a "different version" notification.#13: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Jul 20, 2013
Well, at least I can salvage one line of my hint:
LL to finish.
:)#14: Wombat (wombatilim) on Jul 22, 2013
Sorry, Joe. I had a pair of pixels early on that were integral to the solve, but they were made useless by a later revision, and I still used them as I was solving before I posted. I hadn't intended to include a bunch of crazy internal edge logic along the top.
LOL Joe#15: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jul 27, 2017
At least it sounds like you took better notes than I did. :)
Super nice puzzle, Kristen.#16: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jul 27, 2017
Thanks, Teresa!
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