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#1: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on May 27, 2018

You come up with the word or phrase and which of the 50 United States it rhymes with. Some of the rhymes may be a bit of a stretch.

There are 50 states so feel free to jump in and make some along with me.

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Maine?

Maine was my first guess, also.

Lollipop got it right out of the gate.

... also Idaho

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

after a little line logic
edge logic 7 c20 limits it to [r1-9] so c20r3-7 must be black
LL
EL 5 r2 = c15 w
deep EL 5 r2 (vs r4) = c10 w (or there would be a block of one in r4)
LL
two-way logic 2 r15: whether it goes left or right, it will trigger a 4. That 4 will take up the remaining 1 in r13 so the only places that 1 could be is in c16 and c18. Therefore r13c15 & r13c19-20 must be white.

LL to finish

I guessed my home state of Missouri, which we locals call MO.

Ah, now I see that YOU are the one who started this, not Norma. Well, clever idea, Brian. I'm going to enjoy this series for sure! Thanks for a fun solve.

Ditto #9, nice mod-lookahead solve, challenging.

Joe - I'm not sure how you eliminated the 7 clue being at R9-15.

Another approach: after LL, any attempt to place the 3 in R1 anywhere in cols 1-8 leads to contradictions involving the 9 in R5, so all those R1 squares get dots. You now have black squares in R6C7-8 which must be part of either the 2 or 3 in that row; if it's the 2, there's a contradiction in R2 (C6 must be black, but there's no room to place the 5 around it). R6C7-8 are therefore part of the 3, and R6C2 is a black square.

Hmm. I must have done edge logic on the 6 in c1 first.

The 6 in c1 must be in the range of [r10-20] and so c1r15 must be black.
LL
NOW the 7 in c20 is restricted to the range [r1-9] and so c20r3-7 must be black
LL
EL 5 r2 = c15 white
distant EL 5 r2 (vs r4) makes r2c10-14 white (it would create a block of one in r4)
LL finishes nearly all the left side
Two-way logic 2 r15: whether it goes left or right, it will trigger a 4. That 4 will take up the remaining 1 in r13 so the only places that 1 could be is in c16 and c18. Therefore r13c15 & r13c19-20 must be white.

LL to finish

pretty much did what joe described:

- EL in C2, then C1, then C20 gets you to 88%
- whether C16R15 or C18R15 is black, C19R13 is a dot

LL to finish

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