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#1: Jota (jota) on Apr 5, 2014

Except for the last 2 birds on the top left corner and the green butterfly, it's color and line solvable!

Cute series Ann.

Good series Ann. I enjoyed it

The butterfly solves with a smile.

The two birds make me frown a bit.


Hmm,

Picture logic makes it obvious that it's two v's, but It is difficult to find a non-deep lookahead with pure logic.

The best I can do is this:
a) Try to place the right 3 in r1 into the right clump of unknown. This can only go in c13-15 or c15-17. (C14-16 gives an immediate conflict in r2.) We will try c15-17 first.

b) This will leave a 2x2 rectangle in the right unknown clump. c13-14:r3-4 is the only unknown left in that clump now.

c) summing the clues in c13-14 gives us three more pixels to set.

d) the 3 in r3 cannot fit in that clump anymore, leaving only the 1 in r4.

= Since we need three pixels in c13-14 and can only set one, the original assumption must be wrong and the 3 in r1 cannot be in c15-17, making r1c17 white.


Then simple edge logic on the 3 in r1 will eliminate c16.

Which will then get us to a line logic finish.

So unless I'm missing something, this is deep lookahead.

Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

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