Puzzle Description:

(This puzzle was recovered from the 2016 database crash. Puzzle creators, please edit this puzzle and put the real description here!)

#1: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Aug 18, 2020

I guess comment 8 from before the crash wanted it bigger.

I see 3 Seussian eggs sleeping

Found to have a unique solution by valerie.

I am fairly sure I used only line and color logic, but I wasn't paying careful attention to which types of logic I was using, so I'm not going to set the Solvability flag.

Sleeping with the fishes? Now I need to look at 25506. :)

I think I took one visual-logic shortcut, so I can't claim line & color logic, either. *sigh*

Hmm, comment #8 was "Red, white, and blue ice cream with topping." I don't see how that corresponds to sleepy fishies. :)

I vaguely remember a comment from the original post about sleeping fish. Not sure how the comment numbers were.

Found to be solvable by line and color logic alone by blurglecruncheon.

Solving hints since it was marked unique but not line/color logic, and the helper doesn't solve it immediately:

Rows 1-6, 17-20 and columns 16-20 take a lot of easy color logic to make dots. 41%.

Helper gets you to 51%. 4s in R10/13 can be placed. Reds can all be placed, too.

Helper to 62%. Dot at R19C5. Helper. Blue R18C5. This places the blues in the lower left. Helper. 69%.

C8/9 dots down to R8. This places the 4 in R7. Helper to 76%.

Color logic on R10. R9C14 is a dot. R9C15 is black by color logic. Helper to 99%. Trivial cleanup.

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