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By Jan Wolter (jan)

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#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jul 28, 2005

This puzzle was hard to get to work. I had to fiddle with the bits in the corners of the for an hour or so before I got a solvable puzzle. The whole image could use more work, but I was tired of it.

Turned out to be pretty darn hard to solve too. Once you get it over the hump, it goes pretty easily though.

The solver solves it completely, so simple line solving techiques suffice for this, though you have to search a lot to find the lines you can solve.
#2: Mark Conger (aruba) on Aug 1, 2005
Well there went THAT day. That was a very hard one!
#3: Jan Wolter (jan) on Aug 2, 2005
Sorry. Don't mean to interfere with your planarity.
#4: Mark Conger (aruba) on Aug 2, 2005
That's OK, planarity (http://home.cwru.edu/~jnt5/Planarity/index.html#) was already interfering with real work. :)
#5: Gitte Olesen (granny40) on Dec 24, 2006
WOW... Very very pretty , and yes... very hard. Oh boy... Had to use the Error Checking on this one. Great puzzle.
#6: Rachel R (rachel) on Jul 11, 2007
I was really stuck at the beginning, but once you get going, this one has a great pace.
#7: OrliKids (jlorli) on Aug 21, 2007
Man, I CANNOT get this one going. Any hints?
#8: Bionerd (nieboo) on Nov 26, 2007 [SPOILER]
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#9: Arduinna (arduinna) on Feb 23, 2008 [HINT]
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#10: Adam Nielson (monkey) on May 25, 2008
Very difficult!!! Overall nice image though.
#11: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 2, 2008 [SPOILER]
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#12: Jan Wolter (jan) on Sep 3, 2008 [SPOILER]
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#13: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 3, 2008
Ok.
#14: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Oct 15, 2008
I can't tell for sure, but I think this puzzle is the hardest puzzle of a smallish puzzle that is completely logically solvable. Amazing to create such a prize.
#15: Deana L (ffswife) on Feb 1, 2009
This one has been in my partially solved list for a long time too.. Got around to finishing it up tonight while "watching" the super bowl
#16: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Jun 13, 2009
I tackled "the beast" again (this puzzle, as I like to call it). It wasn't as hard as I remember it. Maybe I was just too overwhelmed the first time or two that I tried solving it.
#17: Gator (Gator) on Sep 10, 2009 [HINT]
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#18: Ed Donahue (edzoid) on Jan 16, 2010 [HINT]
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#19: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Jul 25, 2010
terrific. a real hard -but solvable
#20: Linda Martin (ilovethispuzzle123) on Oct 16, 2010
beautiful - hard, but that was good, also. good to do a hard puzzle every now and then. absolutely fantastic finished image.
#21: Judy Baumann (judybee) on Mar 28, 2011
Love your base eight comment. I always figure my age in hexadecimal.
#22: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on May 15, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#23: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jun 30, 2011
I imagine this puzzle is much easier with the addition of the L key. I would have given up and missed a delightful image!
#24: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Feb 2, 2012
what a fabulous solve
very good image too
#25: Ben Kimball (zubin) on Mar 26, 2012 [SPOILER]
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#27: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Sep 20, 2013
I solved that again. One of the best. thank you.
#28: Bryan (Cyclone) on Dec 15, 2013 [SPOILER]
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#29: Kathy Roth (clyde) on Jun 8, 2014 [HINT]
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#30: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Jul 6, 2016
excellent. not so hard. no guessing required
#31: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jul 20, 2016
Totally awesome puzzle. Great image and fun solve. I did have to guess a little in the lower left-hand corner. I knew what it was supposed to be, but it there was too much white left to narrow it down. I am very impressed with the amount of work this design must have needed.
#32: Leah Drakeford (leah225) on Jan 2, 2017
Great puzzle, nice and challenging!
#33: Brittney Freeman (bfreeman5213) on Aug 4, 2017
Oh man that was great fun and surprisingly only took me a few hours
#34: RB (rb2013) on Jul 11, 2018
#17, too. Very nice puzzle!
That was a great idea to create a 'Best Puzzles' page!
#35: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Jan 6, 2019
Fun solve.
#36: John Reid (femvoxfan) on Jun 28, 2020 [HINT]
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