Comments on Puzzle #229: The one that got away!
By Chad Dingledorff (guitarkid)
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: 
difficulty: 
solutions: multiple solvability: much guessing
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solutions: multiple solvability: much guessing
Puzzle Description Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers
#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jul 1, 2005
Yuck. The black stuff at the top of the puzzle all looks unsolvable. Very hard to even guess the solution.#2: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jul 1, 2005
Well, I did manage to guess the solution, but there are definately lots of possibilities. Seems like it would be easy enought to fix up the black stuff at the top of the picture. It's not all that good looking as it is either.#3: Mark Conger (aruba) on Jul 5, 2005
What does the black stuff represent?#4: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jul 6, 2005 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints and spoilers#5: Martial (marso) on Nov 3, 2007
and I thought it was some leftover from the Exxon Valdez oil spill!#6: Ailsa Hebert (bazette3) on Nov 4, 2007
I solved it but it won't say that I solved it. I definitely don't ever want to do this one again.#7: Jan Wolter (jan) on Feb 17, 2006
Ailsa
This puzzle has more than one possible solution. It only counts as "solved" if you found the one the author had in mind. Which can only be done by guessing and trial and error. Maybe I should have rejected this one.#8: Ailsa Hebert (bazette3) on Nov 4, 2007
I think if it has multiple solutions then any solution that solves it should count. I won't waste my time trying to think like the author of the puzzle.#9: Julian Goodman (jjgbone) on Sep 28, 2007
It's great that you can now "peek" at the final solution for just this kind of puzzle -- I wouldn't do it unless I knew that you couldn't get a logical solution, and I like having the completeness.#10: Merili (merilinnuke) on Dec 30, 2007
I had 5 or 6 "wrong" solutions until I finally found the intended one.#11: Marc Kriguer (myk) on Jan 20, 2008 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#12: Adam Nielson (monkey) on May 22, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#13: Bill Dev (billdev) on Jan 25, 2010
What a messy puzzle. Too much guessing!#14: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jan 31, 2012
it looks like the fish is smoking a strange underwater hookah pipe or something, complete with the smoke#15: Bryan (Cyclone) on Dec 1, 2013
haha
it could be one like this: http://www.ebest365.com/metal-hookah-pipe-coppery-smoking-filter-tobacco-water-pipe_p421.html
Just as a note, I've submitted a new version of this at #23256 as part of my new project to take older unsolvable puzzles and make them solvable. I won't attach any image spoilers here, but I did attempt to solve the puzzle myself before making changes so I would know what to fix. All copyright for the portions used belongs to Chad; I only take credit for fixes and changes to make the puzzle solvable by line and colour logic.
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