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Comments on Puzzle #36840: Palindrome 45a
By Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon)

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  version: 4    quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

Puzzle Description:

2 words, 9 letters.

#1: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on May 19, 2023 [HINT]

Line/color logic got me to 93%. Then I looked at rows 14/15. C9-12 14-17 were all dots but a 2 in R15 C9-10 would leave at most 3 1's in row 14, but we need to place 4. Same for C16-17.

Then line logic wins out.
#2: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 19, 2023
Found to have a unique solution by blurglecruncheon.
#3: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 19, 2023
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by blurglecruncheon.
#4: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 19, 2023
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.
#5: Spot (Pspaughtamus) on May 19, 2023 [SPOILER]
All I got is "Birch crib"?
#6: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 19, 2023
New version published by blurglecruncheon.
#7: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 19, 2023
New version published by blurglecruncheon.
#8: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 19, 2023
Unpublished by blurglecruncheon
#9: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 19, 2023
New version published by blurglecruncheon.
#10: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on May 19, 2023
Apologies for the stream of comments here ... for some reason I'd written down a wrong solution. Juli's phrase is, in fact, a proper palindrome. Mine was not! Spoiler in the next comment.
#11: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on May 19, 2023 [SPOILER]
I originally drew it as a Brick Crib, but Birch Crib is in fact the proper palindrome.
#12: Jota (jota) on May 20, 2023
Nice!
#13: Wombat (wombatilim) on May 20, 2023 [HINT]
For v.4: Line & color logic still gets to 93%, and Andrew's original hint still stands in this version, except it's on R13-14 now instead of R14-15.
#14: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 20, 2023
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.
#15: Christine Freer (cfreer) on May 21, 2023
This does not make sense to me. Simply putting two random words together is not what a palindrome is supposed to be.
#16: Belita (belita) on May 31, 2023 [SPOILER]
Can't a crib be made out of birch? Of course it wouldn't be sitting in a tree.

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