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Comments on Puzzle #36457: Palindrome 10a (tough w/o shortcuts)
By Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: much guessing?  

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#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Feb 23, 2023

Found to have a unique solution by blurglecruncheon.
#2: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Feb 23, 2023
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by blurglecruncheon.
#3: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Feb 23, 2023
This was potentially a long puzzle, so I will give the answer and hints as well.
#4: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Feb 23, 2023 [SPOILER]
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#5: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Feb 23, 2023 [HINT]
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#6: Jota (jota) on Feb 24, 2023
As much as I hate chemistry I enjoyed the solve! Thanks!
#7: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Feb 24, 2023 [SPOILER]
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#8: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Feb 24, 2023
That's odd: Andrew, in #2 you marked it as solvable with moderate lookahead, but when I found the puzzle it had no Solvability rating anymore. I'll check the database logs to see if I can figure out what happened.
#9: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Feb 24, 2023
Andrew: Looking through the logs, it looks like you edited the puzzle and so the software blanked out the Solvability rating. But the software didn't change the version number, and I thought I had the code set to only blank out the Solvability rating when the puzzle clues change, so I don't think the software should have done that!

Oh! One more thought: Any chance that you set the Solvability before the puzzle was published? The logs look like that's what happened, and then when the puzzle was published is when the software blanked out the solvability rating.

Please let me know if that matches with what you remember? Thanks!
#10: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Feb 24, 2023 [SPOILER]
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#11: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Feb 24, 2023 [HINT]
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#12: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Feb 24, 2023 [HINT]
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#13: Alan Lafond (Cural) on Feb 24, 2023 [HINT]
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#14: Philip (Philip) on Feb 24, 2023 [HINT]
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#15: derby (Derby) on Feb 25, 2023 [HINT]
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#16: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Feb 25, 2023
Valerie--I think what happened was, I had a kind of bad Internet connection for a bit. It was bad enough, it didn't even register the options I chose! So one option got chosen and not the other.

I've had problems with this before--perhaps I should check it on my phone (I do WebPBN puzzles on my desktop.)
#17: Hans Wurst (logicalfool) on Feb 26, 2023
Great Puzzle!

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