Comments on Puzzle #3709: somthing frivolous
By Georgia Wren (teachno11)
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: moderate lookahead?
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead?
Puzzle Description:
Just a spontaneous design
#1: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 30, 2008 [SPOILER]
It looks kind of like my DNA puzzle, but aside from that...#2: paul dahmer (paul) on Sep 30, 2008
the title says it all.
great puzzle - not too hard but completely solvable without any guessing - don't know why the title has "may require some guessing" I hate when people rate the puzzle as a guessing one just because they cannot solve it.#3: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 30, 2008
LOL @ #2. :-) Right on!#4: Georgia Wren (teachno11) on Sep 30, 2008
I'm sorry if I seem to have copied from you monkeyboy. I didn't know I had. Came up with it just playing around. Didn't think about DNA at the time but I guess it does bare some resemblance.#5: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Oct 1, 2008
It's ok. It is very different. It just reminded me of that puzzle. No harm done.#6: Jane Doe (telly) on Oct 1, 2008
It reminded me of monkeyboy's dna puzzle too, but they are different and so it's totally ok. :)#7: Synthia McBride (synthia) on Oct 5, 2008
I really enjoyed doing this. I was tempted to look at the answer just to get me started but instead chose to slog on until I got it. Thanks.#8: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Oct 5, 2008
"Slog on." Ingenious, LOL. Never heard that phrase before. :-)#9: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Aug 14, 2014
fun puzz! cool design too :)#10: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Oct 29, 2018 [SPOILER]
DNA on acid. And enjoying it. hehe#11: Byrdie (byrdie) on Mar 20, 2020 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Made me think of the double helix too. Had this one in my saved for awhile and picked away at it now and then. Mostly color solving - figuring out where to locate the "2" clues helped go a long way toward the finish.#12: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Jun 29, 2022 [HINT]
Tricky but fun and I don't mind the visual image either.
I think I used lookahead for this, but from the comments above, it looks like line logic/color logic may be enough?#13: Philip (Philip) on Apr 21, 2024 [HINT]
This is really hard, though! I got pretty far with color logic but had to try a lot of things. I eventually picked off the plus signs and, say, a (green 1/black 1) near each edge.
Not sure if this is lookahead or just really difficult color logic. Here's how I solved it:
Lots of CL a tiny bit at a time got me to 76%.
Then in C8 only R15 or 16 is blue.
The left blue clues in R15 and 16 are 2s.
If C9R18 is red then C9R15-16 are not blue, a contradiction.
So C9R18 is not red, so R18C10-11 is red.
More CL to finish.
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