Comments on Puzzle #31041: WPBN User Rhyme Time #9
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: much guessing?
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: much guessing?
Puzzle Description Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers
#1: sdubois (sdubois) on Apr 5, 2018 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 5, 2018
It is what you give to chickens in exchange for laying eggs.#3: Koreen (mom24plus) on Apr 5, 2018
laid paid...uh...#4: Koreen (mom24plus) on Apr 5, 2018
the list of users is too long for me to look through, so even if I guess the word(s) I won't know who it rhymes with.. we always just say "thanks, ladies!" to our chickens#5: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 5, 2018
I thought of chicken feed and chicken scratch, but can't come up with a name.#6: Jota (Jota) on Apr 6, 2018
Jota! LOL#7: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 6, 2018
It's "hen's pay"...69#8: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 6, 2018
Tom O'Connell?#9: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Apr 6, 2018
You got it Norma, Sensei hen's pay#10: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Sep 13, 2019
Doesn't make sense to me. Like the image.#11: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Sep 14, 2019 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#12: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Nov 2, 2020
Very odd and lots of guessing.#13: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Jul 21, 2021 [HINT]
Yes, this one was very tough! But it was worth it.
My solution is way too long as my PBN Proof skills are ... serviceable at best. But I hope it gives some people who find this randomly a way through.
First four rows and bottom 4/top 3 scolumns through line logic (with some lookahead for the red bits) then c14r14 must be black (I chased some logic around) then I guessed at C13R8 which must be a dot.
I got lucky placing R16C13 as black the first time I tried elimination-guessing. So if you figured the 6 was a good thing to guess at just to get the solution, you'd be right.
But I also found contradictions if c13r14 was a dot. Placing the 3-1 in row 9 in all the right 5 columns also gives a contradiction, making R9c7 a black dot.
I got C5 as something to work on--2 1's in R9/10 and 12/13. If C6R12 is black then C5R13 is too, but so is C6R13, a contradiction.
One of C6R(9/10) must be black as otherwise C5's squares are both dots, leaving R12-13 for two black ones.
C6R11 being black then gives an eventual contradiction in column 18.
C6R15 being black gives a contradiction in column 12.
C8R8 must be a dot or eventually there is a contradiction. Then we chip away at C20, R4 and R12 giving contradictions. With the dot in R8C18 we can make faster progress.
Placing the 3-2 in column 18 in rows 9-15 gives another contradiction, so that means the 3 is in rows 4-7. R7C20 being a dot creates a contradiction. Then R4C19 being a dot creates another one.22
Show: Spoilers
You must register and log in to be able to participate in this discussion.