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hope i don't get as many complaints as i did the first time on this second attempt, to me the art is more important than the simplicity

#1: paul dahmer (paul) on May 14, 2008

solvablity is the most important thing - puzzles are to be logical ---NO GUESSING - - if the picture suffers - so be it, but this site is for logic puzzles, not artwork.

how do you advance your logic without making a leap once in a while, the picture is there if you can visualize it logicially, that is the unquiness of these puzzles

the picture is beautiful..& I don't mind guessing :)

..."talk to Mr. Ed"

Simplicity is boring, but solvability is key. Yes, it's nice for the image to be good -- in fact I prefer it -- but the only way I could solve this puzzle was to proceed from what I assumed the image was going to be. That's not a logic puzzle. That's a coloring book. And multiple solutions are never okay.

I don't mind multiple solutions sometimes. And I don't mind at all if the guessing required is logical, such as with your outlines on the edge of the picture. Naneki has done wonderful pictures like this with only very logical guesses required.

But I am disappointed when I have to peek at the solution to guess the correct arrangement of the last few pixels. I had an awful time with that little half-moon shaped curve on your horse's nose. It takes away from some of the joy of puzzle-solving when I have to peek.

I don't think art has to suffer to make things solvable. Beautiful pictures can also be perfectly logical with a little trial and error and persistence. The auto-checker on this site makes it *very* easy now, too! (When I made my first puzzles here, I had to keep solving them over and over by hand to know if they were solvable before I published.)

I agree with the above comments. I really dislike having more than one possible solution. It takes a lot of the fun out of it for me. It makes it into a guessing game (trying to read someone's mind) rather than a game of logic.

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