Puzzle Description:

With imagery so powerful, it seems to jump out of the pages.

#1: Kathy Roth (clyde) on Aug 13, 2020

Another great puzzle!

Great solve/ image!

Thank you, and thank you, Kathy and Jota. ^-^

Fiddly solve, lovely image :)

Fun solve.

Yay! Thank you, both.

Great illustration of the title. Wonderful detail.

XD Thank you, BlackCat.

I had fun coming up with the concept. I had spent days coming up with the best thing a tiny village could be inside of or on top of. I got my inspiration from a statuette I have of a village on a steep slope inside a high heeled shoe. It's titled "Stiletto Hill".

But I wanted to come up with an original idea for a puzzle. Yes, there are pictures out there on the internet of a building coming out of the pages of books, but there are no whole villages.

The buildings themselves are inspired by a mix of New Amsterdam rowhomes and medieval European houses. As for the large ones in the back, look up the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, and you'll see a resemblance. Both the huge building and the cylindrical tower are directly translated into pixel form for this village inside a book.

A pop-up book! Just kidding.
Great image, fun solve.

I used one bit of 2-way logic, the rest was line logic.

Thank you, Philip, for the compliment and the hint.

This took me a while to finish, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The image is so lovely! Great illustration, Aurelian.

Thanks, Teresa.

Yeah, that book is so thick, I think it would take quite a while for someone to finish (heh heh), even a fast reader.

After initial LL:

R26 C35-41: You can use some IEL to eliminate R26C41. You can also determine that the 3 clue doesn't go into R26C35, which allows you to place a black in R26C38. LL.

C47: The 2 clue puts a black in either R13C46 or R15C46. Either way, that makes the black in R10C46 part of the 2 clue. It also eliminates R12C46.

LL solves the rest.

solved. Logic only. Hard and interesting.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.

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