Puzzle Description:

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

#1: Jota (jota) on Apr 19, 2020

And the best, which are the tales ... are lost ...

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by dbouldin.

Yeah that's sad isn't it? :(

This is showing as some guessing required. At last I can fix that. After LL, EL dots C6R11, LL finishes it off.

Found to have a unique solution by blurglecruncheon.

I think I was able to guess this without any edge logic.

At some points the in-site hints don't show us everything. For me, it was when LL knocked out about 60% (thanks again Valerie for implementing this! It should be useful for this sort of thing) first.

Here the hints don't see we can place a dot in line 10 (the 1-2-1) at some point. C5 is black, c8 is a dot, and C13 is black. That means C7 must be a dot or we'd x-1-x or a 3. Then C7R11 must be a dot, putting the 4 in R11 at C1.

I think I've checked my work, but if someone else could review to make sure I didn't make too much of a jump, that'd be very nice.

I got to about 58% with line logic. Then I used edge logic on the top row, then later edge logic on the 4 in column 18. (Columns 19 and 20 were already filled in by then, which is how there was an edge to use for edge logic in column 18.)

So I agree with David and Andrew that no guessing is required and that the puzzle needs moderate lookahead.

Any idea what the picture is? I see a building on the top left, a smokestack in the middle of the top, and the front is maybe a bike with a flat tire. Or a person in a restaurant with a plate in front of them, with a little chair hovering in mid-air. Aldege, we need you!!

There's a chance it's the front of a locomotive?

David, once you said that, it really popped! It has to be! Viewed from the side, driving toward the right. Thanks!

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