Puzzle Description:

Liliane Van Looy

#1: Gypso (Gypso) on Apr 5, 2008 [SPOILER]

Luna, I just finished Kimberly's portrait puzzle. The apple didn't fall far from the tree. You two are gorgeous!
What do you all have in your water in Belgium? Thank you to you both for allowing Naneki to share you with us. :D

Again Naneki, this is awesome.
Thank you! ^<^

the puzzle doesn't do her justice, you should see her picture! She is quite beautiful :)

waauuw ... it's strange to see so many things of you're self in this puzzle. I have no words for this. I just wanna say thank you. It's really nice work xxx

pretty!

I love hard, challenging puzzles but I usually find that a lot of puzzles with vast areas of white space just do not have enough information for them to be interesting from a puzzler's perspective. I am guessing that it's hard to design puzzles that are both extremely difficult and challenging. Probably because the designer would need to have a comparable level of skill that allows them to create nice logical challenges within the puzzle. A lot of super hard puzzles end up being a little tedious and uninteresting. As I was solving this puzzle, I thought that this would be the case. However, once I found the key areas to approach this puzzle, it turned out to be really interesting. It was interesting but very difficult. And a very nice picture at the end.

Without giving too much away, here is the way I approached this puzzle. Once you get the easy parts down, these are the key clues to concentrate on from top to bottom: the 10 clue one the second row, the 8 clue on the 6th row, the 9 clue on the 12th row, and the 6 clue on the 37th row. Once you determine the position of each of these clues, the adjacent areas will easily fall into place.

I didn’t have to guess on this puzzle, very nice result

I've marked this as solvable with deep lookahead, but I'd prefer a 2nd opinion before marking it DEFINITELY solvable. Lots of IEL, and some deep lookahead on that leftmost edge.

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