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#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Feb 4, 2014 [HINT]

It's a shame this has multiple solutions, because there is a bit of interesting logic that can be done before all is lost.

After line logic,

Sum the across clues for the rectangle of [c10r24,c13r27]. They add up to a minimum of five and a maximum of six (if the 3 in r24 extends into it).

Now sum the down clues that can fit into that rectangle. They add up to a maximum of five.

Therefore all of the down clues that could fit in there MUST be in there.

Thus:
> the 1 in c11 must be within r24-27, so c11r19 & r21-22 must be white
> the 1 in c12 must be within r24-27, so c12r17-19 & r21-22 must be white.

Note also that we proved that the 3 in r29 CANNOT be in that rectangle, so r29c16 must be red.

Then line logic brings us to the guessing.

There seems to be 36 solutions to this if I'm counting right. (The 2 on each side can go in three positions. Each of those positions can have two arrangements of the 1s on that side. So 3*2=6 positions on each side, and 6*6=36 solutions.)

Even so, picture "logic" makes it obvious that this is a shield. So "some guessing".

Found to require some guessing by infrapinklizzard.

You are making very attractive pictures, but you have lost sight of the fact that you are also supposed to be making a puzzle that people would like to solve. So if you see the big question marks maybe you can add something that will get rid of the question marks and more people will want to solve your puzzles. Are you checking them for solvability? Also, it helps to solve them yourself before you publish them. You can also resize your puzzles before you publish them so that there isn't a lot of empty space which most solvers don't care for.

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