Puzzle Description:

Your favourite beverage

#1: Atasever Gedikoglu (atasever) on May 16, 2023 [HINT] [SPOILER]

Is it a joke? 36829, 36830 and 36831 are the same puzzle

I know. I am sorry about that.

Very pretty, intriguing image! What drink is that?

Logically, I'm not sure if line and color can get you started. I gave up looking for an "in" and used EL at the top to get going, so I just kept using advanced techniques. Near the end of the solve (the blues in R5-9) it became obvious that I was at a point where color and LL would go no further, so I'm really glad I gave up on it at the beginning as quickly as I did. Fun challenging solve!

FYI, I think you can unpublish two of these by going into edit mode and unchecking the publish box and clicking save. I'd recommend that so that the comments stay in one place and you don't upset the completionists that solve EVERY published puzzle...although I'm not sure there are any/many of those left around here any more. Just my two cents!

I guess I checked it marked ready to share, and then tried solving it to see how difficult it was. My mistake

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.

Initial line & color logic can actually get you to 89% on this one, with only blue remaining. EL on the black 9s might be helpful, but it's unnecessary.

R5: EL places blue in C9. LL completes the top section.
R28: If C8 is blue it makes R30 invalid, so R28C9 must be blue instead.

LL to finish.

And we still don't know the drink.

Sorry. The drink is red wine.

Ah! in a fancy glass!

Nice puzzle!

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