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#1: Janez (Janez) on May 15, 2020 [SPOILER]

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I didn't cheat nor am I near super.

Ditto. Not a very hard puzzle at all, and no cheating needed.

No cheating, but just brain strain :}

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

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No cheater here. I kind of resent that. I used logic and trial and error. That is not cheating, that is using one's brain.

Whom did I cheat? It's not like we're getting graded.

I didn't cheat, and I don't feel super either. Just a normal PBN fan solving puzzles.

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No cheat here either...though for me it took awhile before I figured it out.

lol :)

Not sure how one "cheats"...?
Also, what is "lookahead"?

This is probably more information than you wanted, but...

Lookahead is the amount you have to look ahead at any particular point to solve the puzzle.

The simplest puzzle is a fill-in where every line has no white whatever. If you have a puzzle that is 5 wide and all the clues are 5s, then you just fill it in with absolutely no lookahead. This is not a "puzzle".

Line logic gives you the smallest amount of lookahead where you place the clues starting from each end and fill in where they overlap. You can't just slap something down - you must anticipate the different possibilities by looking ahead to where they might go.

Color logic is the next step up because it also uses crossing lines to determine where things may go.

If the puzzle can't be solved with only those two, we're into moderate or deep lookahead territory.

Moderate lookahead is the standard advanced logic that is explained on https://www.webpbn.com/solving.html . It also includes any other logic that involves only a couple steps.

Deep lookahead is logic that requires several steps of logic before you can mark a pixel.

Note that all lookahead is logic-based. Guessing is not lookahead, it is guessing. If you are not 100% sure of the pixel you have marked, you have guessed.

Super sad, that you're calling me a cheater. :(

Every puzzle is a challenge set by the creator. Just because I was able to figure it out doesn't mean that I cheated.

Nejat, with an open mind, you can choose to be grateful for what you learned by creating this puzzle. Constructive feedback is valuable. The webpbn family has taught me a lot, an I am grateful to them. I am most grateful for the lessons in humility that I have been taught.

Nejat, you have not responded to the comments or maybe you don't intend to. But the printed word does not reveal how a remark is intended. It could be tongue in cheek or it could be a dead serious insult. Maybe you should explain how your remarks are intended.

Sosumi

This has a nice variety of moderate lookahead for a small puzzle.

I assume the poster was kidding. I used a very small amount of internal edge logic, fairly simple beyond that.

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