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#1: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Aug 8, 2019 [HINT]

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I became an accountant when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. We used 7- or 14-column pads, pencil for handwritten assignments and pen for the entire work environment. I always had a supply, so I used them for every single thing. There's no question that I'm grateful for and reliant on computers and their applications, but to this day I find that when I'm stuck on anything, not just work, I *think* better on quad paper, which is my replacement for a 7-column pad. I'm guessing it's some combination of sense memory and thought patterns brought forward.

Interesting discussion. Nice puzzle, I don't usually do ones this large.

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Putting pencil or pen to paper is so different from tapping on a keyboard. You choose the size of the letters, the depth and width of the impression, the slant, the height of the cross-bars. You get to choose the style of your letters, the spacing between letters and lines, and there must be something gained from perceiving what you've written and how it looks...some feedback on your mood, your stability, you energy and maybe unconscious thoughts. Keyboard entry can be much faster, but writing is a much richer experience.
And I agree completely on what heroes teachers can be.

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Thanks for your comments, BlackCat. I struggled with making the puzzle more solvable with line logic, but in the end I released it as is to keep the image intact. Just recalled another memory of the cranked pencil sharpener at the front of the room that had several hole sizes to work with normal pencils and the fat pencils we used in early grades.

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Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.

El azul no es soluble lógicamente en absoluto.

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