Puzzle Description:

Pretty simplistic house and it almost symmetric (totally symmetric is worse). This isn't good for puzzle creation.

#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 29, 2014

New version published by sgusa.

I would love to help other puzzle creators and have realistic scores posted on puzzles. If one needs help, simply reply to a puzzle you like, and I am certain the creator will be more than happy to guide you. This is a 4 part series getting increasingly difficult. Not getting past average in difficulty, though.

We are never going to see accurate scores, Tom, as long as those sickos who seem to take great delight in giving all puzzles low scores are out there. They like to be the first to rate a puzzle and they may not even solve it just to throw out that low rating. They say eventually it will "average" out. I disagree. I have been randomly checking puzzles and sadly the number of raters is usually quite low compared to the number of solvers. It is often less that 10. Some that start low gradually improve, but all to often never achieve the level they deserve. We should ignore the ratings and depend on the responses of the people we know and respect.

Also, another piece of advice for creators. Please keep some of your puzzles simple, for those of us who enjoy going through a puzzle pretty idly, relying on line logic (with just a little edge logic). There isn't a shortage of those, but please make sure there never is.
Thanks for this series, Tom. I'm sure many newbies will benefit from it.
Thanks,
Bruce

You're Welcome

And Bruce, when I am doing a bunch of them that I have lately, I care a bit about the solvability of the puzzle, but more about the riddle if you know what I mean. I tend to put up a bunch of LLS puzzles. That means line logic solvable without any guessing... (know you know that but it is for the new puzzle solvers).

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