Comments on Puzzle #394: William
By Jan Wolter (jan)
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solvability: line logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
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#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Mar 24, 2006 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints and spoilers#2: Mark Conger (aruba) on Mar 26, 2006 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#3: Jan Wolter (jan) on Mar 27, 2006
Not like this one, I hope.#4: Mark Conger (aruba) on Apr 6, 2006
No, he was a very healthy dog for many years.#5: Adam Nielson (monkey) on Jun 24, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: Arduinna (arduinna) on Jun 24, 2008
Google it! I did back when I solved this one.#7: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jun 25, 2008
Um, James Thurber was one of the funniest people who ever lived. I thought everyone discovered him in like high school or something. He wrote little short humorous things and illustrated them himself, in an inimitable style that probably has something to do with having no artistic training at all. Besides drawing puzzled men with hats, he drew a lot of dogs. One of his lessor works was "The Pet Department" which pretended to be a collection of entries from a newspaper column in which people wrote to ask for advice about pets. The description text is one of the shorter entries in this collection, the picture is a reasonably good representation of the accompanying picture.#8: Jota (Jota) on Aug 28, 2008
Oh, go read some Thurber. And then go read some Dorothy Parker for good measure.
Very entertaining and extremely funny.#9: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Oct 23, 2008
There is no way this should be solvable, looking at the blank grid and all those ones. But of course it was, and, once again, very fun to solve!#10: Scylla Kat (scyllacat) on Feb 18, 2009
I agree with Adam. I thought it would be impossible, but it was very solvable, I didn't have to guess or do anything alarming. And the note makes it VERY funny.#11: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Jul 3, 2009
Nice puzzle, again.#12: Byrdie (byrdie) on Dec 2, 2009
This was a lot of fun to solve and I really enjoyed the accompanying text.#13: Synthia McBride (synthia) on Jul 18, 2010
Neat, not-a-dot wasted puzzle. Info about the puzzle very funny. I haven't read Thurber for a long time. Must look up Pet Dept. stuff. In addition to Dorothy Parker, one must check out Ogden Nash.#14: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Aug 25, 2011 [SPOILER]
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