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Comments on Puzzle #30849: Smallest Flag
By (SebTvHd)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: trivial  

Puzzle Description:

1977 - 2011, Libya's flag was one of the simplest in the world.

#1: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Feb 6, 2018

The following makes my brain hurt:

size: 1x1 (okay, sure.)
colors: 2 (um... )
#2: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Feb 6, 2018
The background always counts as a color because any puzzle without white is not a puzzle.
#3: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Feb 6, 2018
BT, I don't think the programming allows it to say anything less than two colors because usually puzzles will have some white space.

Seb, thanks for sharing the cool little fact with us, and I see the humor in the 1-pixel puzzle. I appreciate it, but there are some here who might not tell you so kindly that they didn't like it. It is, in truth, not a puzzle, but I get the feeling you had no intention of posting this as a masterpiece - just a way to share a fact in a humorous way. I don't recommend you make it a habit to publish puzzles with no white space, but surely the critics can forgive one.
#4: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Feb 7, 2018
In general, folks here are much more forgiving when a puzzle is funny. :)
#5: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Feb 7, 2018
Of course, I don't mean you and many others, Kristen. You are always nice. ^-^

I have a very positive opinion of you and some of the other fun/nice/smart people here.
#6: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Feb 8, 2018
You can get a listing of one color - but that is a completely white puzzle. (Which is also not a puzzle.)

There was a contingent that lambasted puzzle makers for making "Wastes of Time" (WOT), but that has calmed down now. Which is good. It sets my teeth on edge when people complain about the quality of their completely free content.

I do not think this is a waste of time. It has an interesting fact at the end, and really, how much time is wasted by one click -- especially when you know the size of the puzzle going in?

It is also not a puzzle, though.
#7: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Sep 11, 2019 [SPOILER]
As someone who knew the trivia about Libya's old flag (I follow international football, and so odd ones like Libya's stick with me,) this made me laugh before I started clicking.

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