peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty:
solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Jota (jota) on Apr 19, 2020
And the best, which are the tales ... are lost ...#2: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jul 28, 2022
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by dbouldin.#3: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Jul 28, 2022 [HINT]
Yeah that's sad isn't it? :(#4: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Oct 5, 2022
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.#5: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Oct 5, 2022 [HINT]
I think I was able to guess this without any edge logic.#6: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Oct 5, 2022 [HINT]
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.)#7: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Oct 5, 2022 [SPOILER]
So I agree with David and Andrew that no guessing is required and that the puzzle needs moderate lookahead.
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#9: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Oct 6, 2022 [SPOILER]
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