Comments on Puzzle #25414: Do you need a weighing scale?
By peter beswick (peterjb44)
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quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: moderate lookahead
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
Puzzle Description:
(This puzzle was recovered from the 2016 database crash. Puzzle creators, please edit this puzzle and put the real description here!)
#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 29, 2020
Found to have a unique solution by infrapinklizzard.#2: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 29, 2020
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.#3: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on May 29, 2020 [HINT]
After LL#4: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on May 29, 2020 [SPOILER]
Pseudo-smile logic on the 3 in c42:
If it were to go all the way up or down, there would not be enough room for the 1,1 in c43. Therefore the 3 must be in r2-4.
LL
The same happens to the 3 in c82.
LL to finish
IIRC, this was a business venture that Peter was just setting up when he made the puzzle. Unfortunately, the website is offline now.
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