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#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Feb 5, 2021

New version published by susannagy54.

That's great! I'm lookin' forward to "NORMAL"

As are we all Dan! I am beginning to hear more stories about people who have been waiting and waiting and then BOOM -- they have got their vaccines. So hang in there -- its coming!!

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Cool Susan! We'll wait our turn.

Thanks Kristen and Jota!!

Great illustration and great news!

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This puzzle is marked as solveable by line and color logic, but I had to use lookahead to solve it. What do other people think about whether it can be solved with line and color logic?

Thank you black cat!
Thanks Valerie!! I was thinking just an "L" shape for the arm, and didn't think much about muscles for shoulders and elbows, etc. Then I concentrated on the needle and the vaccine, and when I had something I thought looked half-way decent, I "checked" and saw that it was solveable by line and color logic, so I decided to leave well enough alone, and go with it.

Indeed I needed lookahead to place the 2 black in column 9, after that it was a breeze.

I think I used a small bit of lookahead when I was working on the blue 3 in c26 but that's it.

Ok, I'm going to mark it as needing lookahead.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by valerie.

Thanks for the feedback Jota and Michael and Valerie! I "solved" it myself yesterday, and it got a bit tedious at times, even though I knew the final outcome but had to pretend I didn't. In the future I think I will try solving before publishing.

laughed so hard at your first comment valerie!

ok, i solved again because i didn't think i had done anything but color and line logic. not going to get on my soapbox about the fact that some color logic is multi-line, but anyway. here's the trickiest color logic move:

- the black 4 in C25 can't start in R11 because it's not blue, so C25R15 is black

everything else mostly straight-forward line and color :)

It all fell into place for me when I realized C24 rows 8&9 had to black because C25-27 could only be blue. After that, smooth sailing. I did not use lookahead.

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Fingers crossed Dave! For your wife, my brother-in-law, ... the list goes on!!

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David: I was wondering if anybody had read it! Or had the same misinterpretation that I did!

Would you say that that switches it to color logic and not lookahead?

David (dbouldin), I added you to the list of people who can officially set the solvability and uniqueness of a puzzle.

Thanks Valerie!
...and yes, I think that meets Jan's definition of color logic. color logic can look at more than row at a time as long as it is just checking for the clue color, not the clue number. Sometimes we used color as a part of an edge logic move, but that's lookahead. color logic can be VERY difficult to find, but once you find it, it still might not be lookahead :)

Found to be solvable by line and color logic alone by valerie.

Ok, I set it back to color-and-line logic (as you can see).

Thanks Valerie!
...and yes, I think that meets Jan's definition of color logic.

how i understand it: color logic can look at more than row at a time as long as it is just checking for the clue color, not the clue number. Sometimes we used color as a part of an edge logic move, but that's lookahead. color logic can be VERY difficult to find, but once you find it, it still might not be lookahead :)

Thanks everyone for the comments. Yes, color logic can be hard!
I hope the CDC realizes soon that there are a lot of children around!!
My sister and I are both in our 60's, my mom is in her90's, so we all meet that age limit. Now we are waiting for my nephew's and niece's turns -- who are in their 30's.

Agreed that this is line/color solvable.

Nice puzzle!

I'm late to the party, but you really had me laughing at #8 too, Valerie!...reeeeeally wondered where Susan was going with this one! I enjoyed this puzzle, had to chew on it...yummy!

Btw...I think I'm getting my first dose tomorrow. Crossing fingers.

Thank you Gator and JoDeen!!! (I too was wondering what Valerie thought it might be!!)

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Now I see, Valerie!

Guess that says something about me that I knew exactly what you meant Valerie :P

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Glad to hear you're ok!

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