Puzzle Description:

(This puzzle was recovered from the 2016 database crash. Description not available.)

#1: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Nov 14, 2018 [SPOILER]       classify

Did you know there is a "correct" way to eat a cupcake?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjM9tR42Szo

I have never in my long life seen anyone eat a cupcake that way, Brian. Have you? Plus it takes all the joy out of eating a cupcake.

"...Description not available."

DANG, I just cain't figger out wot it spose da be!

An interesting solve--I checked my logic & hope the lack of pictures doesn't hurt things. I also feel I could've found quicker reasoning.

Edge logic after placing the reds: R4C3 being black doesn't leave enough space in column 7. That puts black dots at R4C5/6 and then edge logic makes R10 C16/17. Then R4C4 is a dot, or again C7 doesn't have space for the 2s.

Now look at C13. If the 1/2 are in rows 3 and 5-6, then C17 doesn't have the room for 2 1's. So the 2 is in rows 6-8, so C13R7 is black.

This doesn't seem to be the fastest step, but if C17R3 is black, then we get contradictions in rows 15/16.

Now just the 5 rows to the left remain. I used edge logic on the 3 in C1--having R5 black means R6C1 is black, making nowhere to place a 2 in column 4.

Line logic completes things.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by blurglecruncheon.

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