Puzzle Description:

Fly?

#1: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Jul 17, 2023 [HINT]

The "much guessing" flag definitely has me curious, so I'm going through it nice and slow. I've only used line and color logic so far and I'm at 23% with just black left. Think I might have to jump to advanced soon. Fun challenge!

Thanks David, I appreciate it. I often wonder when people say it has much guessing, that they just haven’t learned ways to solve. So, for example, the red should be easily solved if you look at the area where red can go. Similarly, with much of the green. Locating where the black can go on on the edges will assist in solving this puzzle. For example, it is clear that there is a line coming from the bottom that consists of segments 3, 2, 3, 3. There is only one place on the bottom where that can work. Is that guessing?

I don't see where it is clear. Perhaps you are seeing it as clear based on your pre-existing knowledge of the final image. For someone who doesn't know what it is, the line with segments of 3, 2, 3, and 3 is not in any way clear. Those segments can fit anywhere within a roughly 15 row space (I say roughly, since it can vary a bit from one column to the next), so the only way that I can find to solve that line is from starting at the top of that line and working down towards the bottom row.

Well, I solved it - but. Sometimes I can solve a puzzle given not enough logical information by using "experience logic" to solve recurring patterns from similar images, e.g. flowers or wheels. With this one, aside from the colours and their nearby blacks, some of the rest of the black lines were logical only after a rough start using an even less logical level of experience patterning that I'm going to call "intuition logic."

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