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Comments on Puzzle #3541: I only speak "sign" language
By Adam Nielson (monkeyboy)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

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#1: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on Sep 14, 2008 [SPOILER]

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#2: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 14, 2008 [SPOILER]
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#3: Jane Doe (telly) on Sep 14, 2008
I must have missed them too. Excellent image! :)
#4: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 14, 2008
Thank you!
#5: Nancy Snyder (naneki) on Sep 20, 2008 [SPOILER]
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#6: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 20, 2008
Thank you. Good to see you back.
#7: Bionerd (nieboo) on Oct 7, 2008
Cool! One of my favorites of yours. Thanks monkey.
#8: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Oct 7, 2008
You're welcome, and thanks for the compliment.
#9: Jan Wolter (jan) on Nov 10, 2009
This puzzle is one of the ones that I used as a sample puzzle in my Survey of Paint-by-Number Puzzle Solvers as an example of a larger, more difficult puzzle that still has a unique solution. It's an interesting puzzle from a programmer's point of view because some solving strategies that work well on other hard puzzles completely collapse on this one.

I wonder if Adam would be willing to give permission to allow this puzzle to be freely redistributed as part of a standard test set for developers of new solving programs.

#10: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Nov 10, 2009
Sure, why not.
#11: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jan 30, 2011
loved it
excellent job
#12: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Sep 22, 2012
excellent. thanks.
#13: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 22, 2012
Thanks.
#14: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Dec 24, 2012 [SPOILER]
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#15: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Dec 24, 2012
Thanks for the wonderful comment. If you like difficult puzzles, check out my puzzle # 7604. I believe it is the most difficult puzzle (of those that are completely line logic solveable) on this site. Enjoy!
#16: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Aug 7, 2017
solved again. one of the best
#17: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Jan 23, 2020
WOW! This was a tough one! It took me several days. It was worth it though. Great image.
#18: Wombat (wombatilim) on Jul 30, 2024 [HINT]
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#19: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jul 30, 2024
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.
#20: Wombat (wombatilim) on Jul 30, 2024 [HINT]
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#21: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Aug 3, 2024
Drunk Wombat is interesting ^_^
#22: Byrdie (byrdie) on Oct 19, 2024
Ditto 21. Nice image, really tough solve.
#23: Lollipop (lollipop) on Nov 16, 2024
You're no slouch at creating puzzles either, Wombat, and I thank you for that. Now that I'm revisiting the partial solutions for the large LLS and moderate lookaheads that I saved many years ago, I just solved this one so I've also found your recent puzzle-rating origin verses at #18. To completely paraphrase Kristen at #21, you're creative in so many ways.
#24: Wombat (wombatilim) on Nov 17, 2024
Thanks, Lollipop!

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