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Comments on Puzzle #34387: A Book About a Village
By Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo)

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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!
#2: Jota (jota) on Aug 13, 2020
Great solve/ image!
#3: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Aug 13, 2020
Thank you, and thank you, Kathy and Jota. ^-^
#4: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Aug 13, 2020
Fiddly solve, lovely image :)
#5: derby (Derby) on Aug 13, 2020
Fun solve.
#6: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Aug 14, 2020
Yay! Thank you, both.
#7: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Aug 19, 2020
Great illustration of the title. Wonderful detail.
#8: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Aug 20, 2020
XD Thank you, BlackCat.
#9: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Aug 20, 2020 [SPOILER]
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.
#10: Philip (Philip) on Aug 23, 2020 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#11: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Aug 23, 2020
Thank you, Philip, for the compliment and the hint.
#12: Teresa K (fasstar) on Aug 25, 2020
This took me a while to finish, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The image is so lovely! Great illustration, Aurelian.
#13: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Aug 25, 2020 [SPOILER]
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.
#14: Wombat (wombatilim) on Sep 3, 2022 [HINT]
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#15: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Dec 10, 2023
solved. Logic only. Hard and interesting.
#16: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 11, 2023
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.

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