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Comments on Puzzle #24620: Creating puzzles part 2
By Tom King (sgusa)

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Puzzle Description:

This looks way worse than my original example, but not symmetrical with some added touches, it is more difficult. More fun to solve as well. Still totally LLS...line logic solvable.

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

Unpublished by sgusa
#2: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 29, 2014
Republished without change by sgusa
#3: Tom King (sgusa) on May 29, 2014
This is a 4 part series getting increasingly difficult in solutions. None are hard. My purpose is to help new puzzle creators and those that rate puzzles to understand them, how they are made and how they are solved. If you have any questions, please ask.
#4: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on May 29, 2014
yeah, I have a question...


is there any direct correlation between the amt of puzz's you just published in a 24 hr period and the # of Old Styles consumed in said 24 hr period?

hey, you said to ask a question... ;) hahaha
#5: Tom King (sgusa) on May 29, 2014
Close, Kurt. Not really. Received some bad news, couldn't sleep.
#6: Tom King (sgusa) on May 30, 2014 [HINT]
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#7: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on May 30, 2014
Sorry to hear it, buddy. Hope everything's alright...

Tom, you might wanna solve this again...I didn't solve the first time when posting a comment cuz I figured it was prob gonna be too easy. Maybe I missed something, but I'm not seeing it as LLS.

actually, I'd like to hear what infrapink or one of that ilk have to say about it..
#8: Tom King (sgusa) on May 30, 2014
Kurt, I used the helper function when designing puzzles. Makes it quicker and I can post a gazillion in a day. Perhaps you are missing the 2 in c4. Before it is filled in, there is a single space that can only be white. It totally solves with line logic, but when I have a minute I will solve it without the helper.
#9: Tom King (sgusa) on May 31, 2014 [HINT]
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#10: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on May 31, 2014
whatever the 2 in c4 means to you, I'm not seeing it. too bad I can't show you what my grid looks like...but as far as ll goes, c4 has dots in r1,11-18. the 2 in c3 is placed. c5 has dots in r's 1-4, 5-8 open yet and the rest of the c filled in.

put that into your grid and tell me how and why you can do any more in c4 by line logic alone. (you can't place a dot beside either black in r5c6 or r5c8 yet--you only know r5c8 is part of the 4 clue, but not exactly where the 1 in r5 lies)

it'd solve easily with a dot by either black in r5, and I think you might have put one there.
#11: Tom King (sgusa) on May 31, 2014
Think you are correct. I must've morphed it. Been looking for that elusive pixel for the last hour and couldn't find it.
#12: Bill (PopPop ) on Feb 15, 2023 [HINT]
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#13: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Feb 17, 2023 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#14: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Mar 20, 2024
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by dbouldin.
#15: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Mar 20, 2024 [HINT]
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