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

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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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