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#1: Christine Freer (cfreer) on Mar 13, 2021

Beautiful picture. Would have been a better puzzle with some white space. Without white space it is very easy to just colour in.

agreed. My heart sinks a little, when the first time I click on a new puzzle, it goes straight to black.

Interesting illustration. The neck is a little odd. I like the birds. I agree that it would be more fun with some white spaces. Still, it is a good image.

Gerda, when all the row and column number clues add up to the column and row dimensions, it's a fill-in, not a puzzle. Puzzles that need solving, like those you've created until this one, are enjoyable. Also, this title gives the picture away. The title can be part of the fun for solvers, which you accomplished in your Fishing puzzle. This is not intended as a criticism but as an encouragement to keep at it.

Agreed! Not a puzzle, but I fill-in.

Not agreed. I understand Lollipop's distinction between puzzle and fill-in, but still, you have to pay attention, and you get to watch the image emerge. Which is a good chunk of why we do this, right?
This is a unique image, from my (er) vast number of solves on this (wonderful) website. Cool.

I too was dissappointed when I discovered a fill in. This could have been such a nice puzzle.

New version published by gerda12.

Yeah, I'm solving the new version. I cleared the screen and started over. BUT when I "check", it tells me all is good, but when I "save", it marks mistakes everywhere and tells me I solved an older version. So I "revert" to the last saved board, and it's saves the most recent/correct board. Weird. We'll see how it goes when I finish it.

Yeah, it's still good. And of course a trickier solve. But I did like that red image alot.

This puzzle is great. Thanks for making the change.

You can leave MOST of the red, (because I agree with CB, the red WAS striking). Maybe some wispy white clouds across the background (mostly horizontal, but with a bit of wave).

This might be an unpopular opinion but I think it's good to have some easy ones - not everybody solves at the same level as the rest of us. Just mark it as easy and move on so at least beginners and more casual solvers can find it in the search.

That said, I didn't see the original version of this, and this version does seem to require some guessing.

I agree with meddy; that's the point I was making earlier. Nothing wrong with easy. Gerda, don't worry; have fun making puzzles!

Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by dbouldin.

Have only seen the version current published. Solved it without guessing but the lower left took one two-step lookahead. i didn't write down my steps, so I'll resolve later if someone doesn't jump in with a walk-through in the meantime. nice challenge!

EL in C1 makes R27-30C1 dots. LL.

EL in R30 makes R30C10 a dot.

No matter how the 2 clue in C10 is filled in, R25C9 and R29-30C9 will always be dots. LL.

EL in R22 makes R22C6-7 dots. LL.

The 2 clue in R22 cannot go in R22C3-4 without making R23 invalid. SO R22C4 is a dot. LL.

If you try to place the 2 clue in C2 at R27-28C2 or R28-29C2, this will make C4 invalid. So R28C2 must be a dot. LL.

The 1 clue in R28 has to either go in R28C6 or R28C7. Look at how R30 will be affected. In either case, R30C7 will be a dot. Now look at how R25 and then R26 are affected. In either case, R25-26C7 will always be dots. LL.

The 2 clue in R28 has to either fill in R28C3 or R28C5. Imagine that R28C3 is black. This makes both R28C5 and R30C3 dots. That will force R30C5 to be black making C5 invalid. So R28C3 is a dot. LL.

Next part I would classify as deep lookahead as you have to keep a lot in your head. Looking at C6, the 2 clue has to either be at R26-27C6 or R29-30C6. Look at how C2 will be affected. It forces R29-30C2 or R26C2 to be black respectively. But let's focus on if it is at R26-27C6 and how C4 if affected. This is lead to R30C4 also being black. Since both R30C2 and R30C4 cannot be black when R26-27C6 is black, then the 2 clue in C6 must go in R29-30C6. LL to finish.

This one seems like it could be line logic or even moderate lookahead with just a few more pixels changed.

Good image, really captures it.

I solved the first version and the second. I agree that the first one may have been a fill in, but I thought the image was striking. And I didn't mind that the first one was easy because the finished picture was worth the time.

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