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Comments on Puzzle #35142: Mathemagic!
By AM (adrian)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

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#1: CB Paul (cbpaul) on May 31, 2021 [SPOILER]

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#2: AM (adrian) on May 31, 2021 [SPOILER]
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#3: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Jun 1, 2021 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#4: Belita (belita) on Jun 1, 2021 [SPOILER]
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#5: AM (adrian) on Jun 1, 2021 [SPOILER]
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#6: Spot (Pspaughtamus) on Jun 1, 2021 [SPOILER]
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#7: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Jun 1, 2021
Juli, thanks. Makes sense: something about wisdom. Even if he's not still working with owls, Euler knows stuff!

[And yes, knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing, but the overlap works here.]
#8: Ailsa Hebert (bazette3) on Jun 1, 2021
Nice puzzle. Enjoyed the solve. Thanks
#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 2, 2021 [HINT]
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#10: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 2, 2021
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.
#11: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 2, 2021
Andrew, there is a solver that checks puzzles when they get published. It is very good at solving line-logical puzzles, so if the puzzle is not marked as line-logic solvable, it most probably isn't.

Even so, you should think of the assignments of solvability from the other direction. If it is marked "deep lookahead", that means that someone has found a way to solve it with a greater-than-normal amount of steps needed. Someone else may come upon a much shorter method and thus it is brought down to "moderate lookahead". Basically, we're defining the upper limit on how much work needs to be done to finish the puzzle.
#12: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Jun 3, 2021 [HINT]
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#13: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 3, 2021
Oh yes, I should also probably reiterate that when I put a solve, that is just how *I* solved it, and is not necessarily the only or indeed best solve.
#14: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Jun 6, 2021
I think it's understood...at least I hope so because that's what I mean when I post a solve too :)
#15: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jun 6, 2021
While this kind of puzzle is easy to solve, images are so much more fun.
#16: Gator (gator) on Jul 12, 2021
No way am I going to try to figure out every possible way to solve a puzzle. I also just list my steps that I used. Sometimes I will go back and resolve to see if some earlier steps I took were necessary or not, but only if I find a less difficult step later that I probably should have seen.

Nice puzzle and I feel this is one of the most beautiful equations in mathematics.
#17: Courtenay Footman (Courtenay) on Jan 16, 2024 [SPOILER]
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