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#1: Bobbie Hall (koalaobo) on Jun 30, 2006

Design question: I find puzzles that are not displayed in multiples of five pixels a little confusing and thus, better to have blank rows/columns. Would it be better to center the image or keep all the blanks to one side?

I agree that blank columns are better than not being a multiple of 5. I especially dislike having a set of four columns left over, since I'm always mistaking them for a set of five.

Centered or not? I dunno. Whatever looks best, I guess. Usually that's centered, but depends on the subject, I guess.

Having solved this, I think it's fine the way it is.

Incidentally, Puzzle #107 is a quite different puzzle on the same timely theme.

I liked the way the rough spots made this more challenging. Good puzzle.

I say make it big enough to fit multiples of five, personally.

I tend to tweak my own puzzles to make them fit into a multiple of five: bigger hair here, longer leg there, but it doesn't always work. Better to have a puzzle that's good looking and fun to solve (like this one) and keep the white space in than to mess it up to make it fit.

I agree with the previous comments about keeping the number of rows and columns equal to a multiple of 5, since I'm always used to counting in multiples of 5. Adding blank rows/columns (to bring the total to a multiple of 5) is fine with me.

That was tough!

Interesting use of asymmetry.

Muddled through a couple sticky points but always found one little clue here and there. A fun puzzle to solve.

I like that the image is kind of abstract, rather than a more literal, realistic view.

Nice. No guessing.

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