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#1: Ellen Vollor (evollor) on Jun 30, 2014

Doobie Brothers? Looks like a doobie to me!

they were a one hit wonder

I would guess Mellow Yellow, but I don't know if Donovan would be considered a "band."

another name for a telescope...

Looking Glass?

Tunnel Vision?

Aldege you got it.

Hooray! :)

Color logic doesn't quite work with the 2-7-1 in row 14 because there is an 8-wide place for it on the left and 7-wide on the right. Lookahead gives a contradiction for an 8-wide.

I'm confident there is no color logic that works elsewhere. I used brute force painting columns with black or green dots and found no contradictions. (Color logic places the blues.) Once we place the 7's, the bottom 9x9 gets finished with color logic.

Once this is done, I noticed column 4 and where you could place the 5. If it starts at R11 or below, rows 10/11 make a 2 in column 2. If it starts at R10, then C2R7/10 are dots, another contradiction. That places 2 green squares in R5/6 since the green must be from R2 to R9. I think this is the end of the tricky stuff, and the rest is color logic.

The green in C4R5 means one can't be in C10R5. There can't be a green in C10R14, either. So we can place greens at R9 and R10.

Now we place a green in R11. If we place it in R2-4, we get a contradiction as the 3/4/5 must face right. It can't be in R5 since there's already a green in C4, so it is in R6+. But 17-20 are dots so R8 must be green. That fills in 4 of the 6 in C11, R10-13, and it also fills R14.

But now R10C8 cannot be green or there'd be no place for the black 5 in C8. That's the start of the color logic, and I soon filled the 6 in row 11. A bunch else fell.

Then I looked at C2 which had dots at R13 and below. The black 2's on the left restricted where the green 3 went. I was able to narrow it to R2-6.

I found miscellaneous color logic everywhere else. It was fun to unwind the last bits of this puzzle after finding a way to get those first few squares filled. There is all sorts of color logic, standard stuff, but the variety combined with the tough stuff early on made this rewarding.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by blurglecruncheon.

"...You're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be ..."

HUGE hit, never anything again.

True fact: Barry Manilow had just recorded "Brandy", and this hit came out, and he had to go back into the studio and change it to "Mandy".

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