Comments on Puzzle #34836: Double talk 3
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
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#1: Belita (belita) on Jan 23, 2021 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 23, 2021
Another great answer but not the one I meant#3: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Jan 23, 2021 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#5: Beep (Boop) on Jan 24, 2021
Are you looking for homophones with these?#6: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 24, 2021
I think they are called heteronyms#7: Gary Webster (glwebste) on Jan 24, 2021 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#8: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Jan 24, 2021
I don't know the answer, but if someone watches everything celery does all day long from behind some hidden place, he or she stalks stalks.#9: Kathy Cain (kathycain) on Jan 24, 2021 [SPOILER]
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?#11: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 24, 2021 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#13: Donna McFarland (Baby Jade) on Jan 24, 2021
I'm with Kristen on this one: produce produce.#14: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 24, 2021
Raise maize?#15: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 24, 2021
You got it Kristen.#16: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jan 24, 2021
The solving is fun.#17: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Jan 25, 2021
Lol, I never did get this one so I'm glad Kristen finally put me out of my misery!#18: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jan 26, 2021
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by valerie.#19: Gator (gator) on Feb 2, 2021 [HINT]
After the red/black are done and the left side is solved out, you will have 3 greens filled in on the right.
Looking at C18, no matter where you place the 3 clue, R6-8C17 always ends up dots.
Since the 3 in C18 has to be in either R3 or R6, look at how this will affect C15. It forces the 5 clue in C15 to either be in rows 1-5 or 4-8. If the 5 clue is in rows 1-5, then the 3 clue has to be in R6-8. If the 5 clue is in rows 4-8, then the 3 clue has to be somewhere in R1-4. In either of these possibilities, the 1 clues in R6-8 will be in C15 or C18. This lets us make R6-8C12-14 dots. LL.
Looking at the 2 clue in R1, it would have to go in C12-16. If you consider C15-16, this will make R2 invalid. If you consider C14-15, (looking a couple of moves ahead), this will force R5C13 green and R5C14 a dot which makes R5 invalid. So the 2 clue must go in C12-14 which makes R1C13 green. LL to finish.
The 7x8 right green side was actually rather hard. :) Great puzzle!
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