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#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jul 13, 2020

Found to require lots of guessing by infrapinklizzard.

The solve was interesting until it became unsolvable.

I see /at least/ 12 solutions from peeking. However, you can't even get to the start of the multiple solutions without guessing.

Should we be able to un publish something like this?

From the description under the puzzle, I'm thinking maybe Galaxy Tiger has a pet that walked across the keyboard. And maybe that same pet "helped" draw this picture the same way. Didn't enjoy this one. Sorry Galaxy.

I think we should just let the quality rating do its job.

Jan only unpublished completely hopeless puzzles, and even then he did it less and less as time went on. He may have stopped completely once the ratings were debuted many years ago.

I do enjoy a difficult solve, but this one was not enjoyable. I confess that I cheated to finish.

I've found that "Much guessing" is not always true, and there can be many multiple solutions or just a few that can be cycled through, so lately I've been giving these puzzles with the scary big red question mark a go. But after I've solved an unintended solution, I look at the comments. If it's going to be near impossible to try to stumble over the correct one, that's when I mark the puzzle as solved and move on. Which is going to happen here in the next five minutes. If I'd read Joe's and the other comments first, I would have known to stop before I started.

Interesting that Galaxy Tiger1 posted all her puzzles one after the other, then left the site the same day.

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