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Comments on Puzzle #36986: Who you gonna call?
By Lauren Wilkinson (Lauren)

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#1: Al LaPointe (kancamagus) on Jul 26, 2023

Fun and excellent solve. Line logic, color logic, edge logic, smile logic - all these came into play. Long and difficult, but eminently solvable! Now I have the song stuck in my head...
#2: Wombat (wombatilim) on Jul 26, 2023 [HINT]
C8: The color logic here is a bit tricky to spot, but the 10 needs to be placed below R31. (This is not advanced logic, just some color logic I missed initially so I thought I should mention it here.)

Initial line & color logic (including the above) gets to 78% with red and black remaining.

R14-15 C49-52: Smile logic finishes the black here.

R31: EL on the red marks C1-4 and C23-26 white. L&CL.
R30: EL on the red marks C3-4 and C23-24 white.

Line & color logic from here gets to 94% with only black remaining.

R41: If the remaining 2 is placed in C27-28, R40 is invalid. R41 C35-36 are black instead. LL.

R38: If the remaining 2 is placed in C27-28, R37 is invalid, so these squares are white.
R37: If the remaining 2 is placed in C27-28, R36 is invalid, so these squares are white.

LL to finish.
#3: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jul 26, 2023
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.
#4: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Jul 28, 2023
Didn't track my solve, but completely agree with Al and Wombat!
#5: Julio Parra (Julio Parra) on Aug 19, 2023
Buen puzzle, soluble lógicamente ... casi todo.

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