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Comments on Puzzle #34874: bubo
By lala lili lolo (langedrako)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

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#1: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Nov 25, 2021 [SPOILER]

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#2: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Nov 25, 2021
toughie but cool image
#3: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Nov 25, 2021
Tough solve. Took 2 guesses.
#4: Ailsa Hebert (bazette3) on Nov 26, 2021
I agree...it was a toughie but I got there! I really enjoyed the solve! Thanks!
#5: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Nov 30, 2021 [SPOILER]
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#6: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Dec 10, 2021 [HINT]
after line and color logic, these are the advanced moves i made (they might not all be necessary) with line logic in between:

- whether C4R19 or C4R20 are black, C5R13-15,17 are dots
- no matter where the 2 in R20 goes, C12R19 is black
- EL dots C14R13-15
- (IEL) if the 4 in C8 goes up into R13, the resulting dots in C7 in R11, 13 and 15 violate it, so C8R17 is black
- whether C6R13 or C6R14 is black, C7R11 is black
- whether C9R19 or C14R19 is black, C9R18 is a dot
- whether C6R12 or C8R12 is black, C8R13 is a dot
- whether C10R13 or C12R13 is black, C10R14 is black
- whether C11R13 or C11R15 is black, C6R13 is black
- LL to finish

so definitely not guessing and thinking that those moves are a LOT of hard to find moderate lookahead instead of deep lookahead, but my feelings won't be hurt if someone better at this than me overrules :)
#7: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 10, 2021
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by dbouldin.
#8: Eric (kelalatir) on Dec 10, 2021 [HINT]
Great puzzle! I like how it starts deceptively easy and then has tricky parts near the end.

I didn't track my solution, but I used two-way logic and three-way logic. I noticed that sometimes it doesn't matter where you placed a particular 1 or 2 sized clue, it forced another part of the board to have a specific cell either black or white. After finding 3 or 4 of these, the puzzle finished solving with line logic. I remember the first of the two-way logic areas I found was whether the lowest 1 clue in column 4 was either in row 19 or row 20. Either way, column 5 row 19 is black.
#9: Emimonster (Emimonster) on Dec 16, 2021 [HINT]
The pivotal moment for me was when I saw that if the 4 in C8 goes up as far as R14 it causes a contradiction with the 2 in R14. Other than that it's some 2 way logic/EL.
I like these small but tougher puzzles.
#10: Gator (gator) on Jan 17, 2022 [HINT]
Great puzzle!

@David - solution looks good to me for moderate lookahead.

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