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#1: Thomas Genuine (Genuine) on Feb 23, 2017

this is an interesting puzzle by solving, but who is this?

It's a popular meme of Morpheus from The Matrix. Wasn't sure if this group is into memes or not.. decided to take a chance!

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+if+i+told+you+meme&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS719US719&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=920&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPlN-BpKnSAhUQx2MKHQvFAJUQ_AUIBigB

Every time I see the word, meme, I have to look it up again! :)

me too Janice!

It was a fun solve Thomas.

Taking notes as I go since this appears to be a tricky one and I don't want to lose track. Might be stuff in here that isn't necessary to solve. Assume there's some LL happening between each line.

I was able to do a little EL on the bottom to place 5 blacks of the 9 clue. (The 1 clue in R29 cannot be to the right of C19)

C3: if R1-3 are black, it causes a contradiction in either C2 or C4.

C1: The 5 clue must be below R18. No matter where it goes, the 6 in C2 goes down to R28, so R25-28C2 are black.

R30: No matter where the leftmost 3 clue goes in the space available, the leftmost 2 clue in R29 goes in R29C1&2.

R29: the black in R29C12 is either a 1 clue or part of a 3. If it's a 1 clue, there's nowhere for the 1 clue in R30 to go, so it must be part of a 3.

C4: If there's a 4 clue in R9-12, it causes a contradiction in C5.

C3: if the 15 clue goes any lower than it's already placed, it causes a contradiction in C2.

C28: The 18 clue can't go above R4 or it causes a contradiction in C27 or C29.

R18: The black in C28 is either the 1 clue or part of the 4 clue. If it's part of the 4 it causes a contradiction in R7, so it's the 1.

R1-5: Trying to place blacks anywhere in C8 or 9 causes a contradiction in the other one. Blacks in C14 cause contradictions in C13. Blacks in C26 cause contradictions in C27. Blacks in C29 cause contradictions in C28 or C30. Blacks in R1 of C12-13 or C27-28 cause contradictions in R2. Unfortunately none of these have follow-up line logic, but I feel better for having cleared them out. This probably wasn't a necessary step.

C9: Placing the 5 clue below R13 causes a contradiction in C8 or C10.

R7: Starting the first 5 clue in C8 causes a contradiction in R9, due to the 8 clues in R8. Starting a 5 clue in C18 also causes a contradiction in R9, again due to the 8 clues in R8.

R30: Trying to place the remaining 3 clue to the left of C29 causes a contradiction in R29, so R30C27 is black.

C29: Starting the 4 clue above R25 causes a contradiction in C26.

R13: Placing a black in either C16 or C17 will cause a contradiction in R17-18.

C14: Regardless of which way the 2 clue goes, the remaining 2 in C15 is in R17-18. Same goes for the clues in C19/18, though you only have to do one of these.

LL solves from there.

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Extremely tough puzzle. Not enough detail for that size of a puzzle.

tough. solved

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