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Comments on Puzzle #35406: Caught in a trap
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)

peek at solution       solve puzzle
  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead?  

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#1: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Oct 20, 2021 [SPOILER]

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#2: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Oct 20, 2021 [SPOILER]
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#3: Yonah Kondor (yokon965) on Oct 21, 2021 [SPOILER]
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#4: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Oct 21, 2021
Does anyone else hear Elvis?
#5: Spot (Pspaughtamus) on Oct 21, 2021
@Kristen, I'm glad I'm not the only one.
#6: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Oct 21, 2021
I'm pretty sure Brian did that on purpose. :)
#7: Jota (jota) on Oct 21, 2021
That's why he's the Brain.
#8: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Oct 27, 2021
Until I read Yonah Kondor's explanation, I could not see what this was. Very clever.
#9: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Nov 13, 2021
Enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OouZW_A_M_0
#10: Jota (jota) on Nov 14, 2021
Funny clip.
#11: Steven Paradise (gossamerica) on Nov 19, 2021
Required either guessing, or lookahead beyond what I can do, but it was pretty easy to figure out from the nearly-done puzzle what to try first.
#12: Koreen (mom24plus) on Apr 9, 2022
#4, yep! now it's an earworm I can't get out!
#13: Gator (gator) on Apr 20, 2022 [HINT]
CL/LL will solve all of the green and red leaving us with 20 black cells to finish off.

I'm not sure how to logically tackle this one to finish it off. I can look at the picture overall and easily figure that out, but we know I cannot mark a puzzle as solvable with "picture logic".

Here is what I do know. Columns 7-10 need 9 black cells, columns 29-32 need 9 black cells, and columns 36 and 38 need 1 cell each.

But I cannot see where summing or smile (regular or alternating) logic will help. I cannot find a place where edge logic does either.

So I think I am left with finding a contradiction with moderate or deep lookahead.

If R9C9 is black, then with 3 move lookahead this would force R9C29 and R9C31 to be black which makes R9 invalid. So R9C9 is a dot. LL. The same logic can be used on R9C30 to make it a dot. LL.

There is another contraction if R16C9 is filled in, but it takes 5-6 moves ahead to see it and put that in the guessing category.

I think I am stuck here. Can anyone show a way forward?

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