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Comments on Puzzle #36270: The most exciting time of day
By Wombat (wombatilim)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

Puzzle Description:

Dinner time!

#1: Wombat (wombatilim) on Dec 29, 2022 [HINT]

EL C46 places the 3 in R5-7. LL finishes.
#2: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 29, 2022
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.
#3: Wombat (wombatilim) on Dec 29, 2022 [SPOILER]
Dinner time is exciting for Kiwi because she gets wet food. It's exciting for Zuul because she gets to ambush Kiwi AND she gets wet food.

In reality the black cat (Kiwi) has the black bowl and the grey cat (Zuul) has the steel bowl, but this made for a better puzzle.

I have to keep an eye on them while they eat because Zuul has a habit of wandering over and trying to eat from Kiwi's bowl while Kiwi's still eating from it.
#4: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Dec 31, 2022 [HINT]
For an alternate solution: The puzzle was almost entirely line logic. The one time line logic ran out (at 86% or 88%), I used internal edge logic vertically on the 3 at the top of column 30. Then the rest was line logic again. So it's the nearly-identical mirror image of Wombatilim's solution.
#5: Jota (jota) on Jan 1, 2023
And I though it would be an incoming fax or paper from a printer.
#6: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 18, 2023 [SPOILER]
Are those kitty heads, facing us and bent over their food bowls?
#7: Wombat (wombatilim) on Jan 19, 2023
#6 exactly so.

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