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#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Sep 15, 2026 [SPOILER]

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Another nice one!

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Found to be solvable by line and color logic alone by valerie.

PG is appreciated!

Jim, I noticed that your puzzles all don't have the Solvability automatically set, even though the website should be able to figure it out. Any idea why the website would do that? Just curious! Thanks for any clues!

Valerie: I suspect it's because I wrote an uploader that uses the internal API, to save the tedium of editing it manually. I'll see if I can figure out how to get it to do the check. I can guarantee that all my puzzles are line solvable -- I check that on my end. Also note: Even though I have a power tool, I'm not going to abuse it. Didn't plan to upload more than a dozen puzzles or so.

Valerie: we've corresponded before, I believe (long time ago). If you have any concerns, feel free to chat via email? dad@krazydad.com

Re 6: Oh.My.Goodness! I did not know that the site has an API! I clearly need to take a look at that!

The easiest way to get the system to set a puzzle's solvability should be to press the puzzle's Edit button and then the Save button.

Re 7: I don't remember any details, but I thought your name looked familiar. Welcome!

Valerie: API might be overstating it, but Jan definitely built an efficient underlying system that I was able to use to upload puzzles from my personal editor without having to "puppet" the interactive system. I've fixed the bug that mis-reported the solvability. Yay!

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