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#1: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Jan 3, 2024 [SPOILER]

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(I didn't try solving it and used the "peek at solution" option.)

As ridiculous as this puzzle is, it was actually kinda fun go solve.

Try solving this puzzle, and you see why the limit is there. :)

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Found to require lots of guessing by gator.

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while y'all have a point with the size, why not make the limit a nice, even 100x100?

Wdb07 -- I am guessing that Jan designed it that way because adding the possibility of a third digit to the clue numbers would mean that the columns would all need to get wider, so it would have a large effect throughout the site.

Also, the site uses hundreds of tiny images of clue numbers that would need to be enlarged. There are images of each number from 1 to 99, and each clue can be in any of four colors, and each of those four colors can have a gray background or a white background, and each image is repeated in three sizes, so that's 99 clue numbers times 4 colors times 2 background colors times 3 sizes is about 2400 little images that are currently two-digits-wide and would all need to be re-drawn to be three-digits wide, which is a lot of work for not a lot of payoff. Though I suppose the digits of the number 100 could be creatively squashed into a smaller space, keeping the other digits the same width, which would be easier. But still I don't think it would make the site better to allow puzzles to be 100x100.

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