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#1: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Nov 2, 2013 [HINT]

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It was too easy ... especially for me. At first sight I recognized NOT TO USE any line logic, but must to draw to four corners. This is a main step of my special method. And after that I could solve it less than 2-3 minutes :)

Special method=guess?

Nope. Not guess. We use in this method simple conjectural variates. BUT! It's very easy! Combined with "edge" logic, it can be seemed at first sight. (No need for any counting) :)
When you use "line logic", you have to guess. So: DON'T USE LL in this case.

This puzzle is a real pilot project for it. There must be dots in all corners! After that this is an 0* difficulty :)

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Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

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it's always funny to me when people make an assumption and, because it worked out, think it's logic and not guessing. yes...we can sort of "see" what will probably happen, but that doesn't mean that it MUST happen, which makes it "guessing". i can make a puzzle VERY very similar to this one in clue formation that does not have black squares in the corners. When you've done a bunch of these and can think ahead a bit you do start to see the most likely formations, but if you can't step through the squares and clues with a logical explanation, it's just the educated guessing of an intelligent mind.

fun, difficult puzzle!

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