Puzzle Description:

#1: Jon Jackson (jiovnxx) on Jan 9, 2009

thug life

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This tricky to solve. I thought I was stuck early on, but something in the 5th column helped me move on. Cool puzzle.

Probably the best puzzle so far by this author. Tricky.

Ditto 2

It's fun when such a small puzzle is so challenging!

ditto all but #1 ;)

I sat and stared at a mostly blank screen for a long time and then all of a sudden things started popping into place. A little bit of a stumble as I neared the end. Nice puzzle and a real sense of accomplishment when its done.

I didn't find any logical opening (not that I looked so hard for it), so I tried a different approach: guessing how a palm tree would look like, and then adjusting it to match the numbers. I've never tried that kind of tactic before, but it went pretty well.

Found to require much guessing by jan.

Found to have multiple solutions by jan.

I think the people above talking about this being solvable were talking about the previous version. I don't think the current one is.

I sounds like I would have liked to have solved the original version. This is very disappointing.

What's the threshold on these puzzles for "lots of guessing?"

R6-R10 C11-15 is mostly open but placing the 2 in C15 gives 1 possibility each for r11-12 and 14-15, and 12 each (?) for r12-13 and r13-14.

That said if we consider the picture is continuous, C13R6 is probably a black dot, we get smile logic in C14-15 and then there are 4 possibilities for the remaining dots, but only 1 with a continuous drawing.

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