Comments on Puzzle #22602: the view outside my "window"
By annalivia (annalivia)
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solvability: line & color logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
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#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Aug 15, 2013
Are you on a boat looking out?#2: annalivia (annalivia) on Aug 15, 2013
yep!#3: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Aug 16, 2013
Lovely!#4: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Aug 16, 2013
I found plenty of sites that offer portlights for sale, but none explaining the name. Maybe because it provides light through the porthole?
One opinion:#5: annalivia (annalivia) on Aug 16, 2013
A portlight is any shape other than a circle.
A port hole is round so the water can't hit you square in the face!
Also:
Porthole Definition from a Nautical Dictionary: An opening in the topsides or deck structures that allow light in, and which may be opened for fresh air. Portholes are usually small, with a sturdy hinged glass cover called a portlight, that can be dogged shut against a watertight gasket. (From the French "porte" meaning "door.")
LOL, Norma! thanks for the definition, and why it's port, even though they are on the port and starboard sides.#6: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Aug 17, 2013
and thank you all for the comments.
maybe port comes from portal#7: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Aug 18, 2013 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#8: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Aug 18, 2013
That's really interesting, Joe. Sometimes we are surprised at how clever our forefathers could be without the technology we have today. Hopefully they will be saying the same about us 100 years from now.#9: Linda Young (youngl) on Aug 19, 2013
I thought it was a "TV" window!
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