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solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Jan 1, 2014
it's def going around!#2: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 1, 2014
Aiii! Not the needle!#3: Jota (jota) on Jan 2, 2014
I'll take the flu, no needles form me!#4: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jan 2, 2014
awww come on, its just a tiny needle#5: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Jan 2, 2014
I prefer a larger one Tom. :)#6: Susan Nagy (susannagy54) on Jan 2, 2014
Oh shoot! It's time for me to get my shot!#7: Bryan (Cyclone) on Jan 3, 2014 [HINT]
With the one blot in the horizontal clues, I find guessing needed in the final stages of the puzzle. Also, I needed to use edge logic twice.#8: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jan 4, 2014
try again Bryan#9: Bryan (Cyclone) on Jan 4, 2014
Haha, there are a lot of other puzzles to solve on a first go. Maybe "guessing" wasn't the right term, though.#10: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jan 26, 2014 [HINT]
After the left side is finished,#11: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jan 26, 2014
edge logic on the 7 in c15 places it completely
Then some contradiction logic:
Look at the 2 in c18. It can go in one of three places.
If it were to go in either r6-7 or r10-11 then c18r14-15 would be white.
That will force both the 2s in r14&15 into c19-20. This conflicts with the 1s in those columns.
Therefore it cannot go in either of the upper spots and must be in c18r14-15
Then after line logic, there are four clues left.
Summing the horizontal clues gives two more pixels to be placed. Since there is only a 1 in c19, the blot in c17 must get one more pixel.
So c17r14 must be black and c17r15 white.
And a tiny bit of line logic to finish.
Nice solve.
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.#12: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jan 26, 2014 [HINT]
Plain edge logic on the 2 in r15 will do in place of the contradiction logic above...#13: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jan 27, 2014
thx Joe#14: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Aug 19, 2016
Is that an arm or a butt cheek?
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