Puzzle Description:

This litle smily has my sister done for me!

#1: Petra Lassen (stjarna) on Jan 11, 2009 [SPOILER]

*smiles*
But what is it? A bowl of hot soup? And are those marks in the description meant to be the same thing except the lines didn't work as expected?

This was one of the hardest puzzles I have ever solved logically (up until now). Based on the poor content, I am sure the creator didn't intentionally create it to be this way, but luckily enough, it ended up logically solvable. I still have no idea what this is supposed to be.

I didn't find it logically solvable. I think I guessed on one of the 11s and got lucky after almost quitting. with such an end result I didn't find this fun. sorry.

Thank you for the enjoyable puzzle. I'm probably just a little too not smart enough to get the description, but it makes me think of watching "Modern Times" the other day. And I'll smile...

I see an open mouth with braces on the teeth.

OK, this is logically solvable, but darned hard.

Frankly, I used the helper to speed up checking this, but the helper needed tons of help. In the end I was thoroughly stuck until I thought of trying summing on it (a trick that is on the advanced solving techniques page, but that I very rarely use. It helped me here.

I tried it in lots of places, but, if I'm remembering right, the place it helped me was in the bottom two or three rows. I'd completely solved about five rows above those bottom rows. From the row clues I could see that I needed exactly 3 more pixels to be filled in in those rows. There were two column whose last pixel had to be in one of those two rows, though I didn't know which one. So that left only one pixel unaccounted for. But there were two columns which could place either two pixels in those rows, or zero pixels in those rows. Aha! Those had to have zero pixels in the bottom rows! So I could fill in four dots, and then the rest of the puzzle solved.

Maybe I should try summing more often.

I almost typed "slumming". That would have meant something else.

rofl Jan. :)

When the description said it was a smiley, I tried to see a face, and then I saw the braces! I thought that was a really cute and clever puzzle, and I enjoyed the challenge.

waaaaay to hard logically...i just used what i now call "visual" logic. look at it and make it make sense either visually or symetrically. then the words at the top i ended up assuming there too.

I didn't find this puzzle that diff. But I have no idea what kind of smile it is.

I solved this one a little differently. After solving most of the puzzle, look at column 9. That column can only be filled out two different ways. Notice what happens in rows 6 and 12 for those two possibilities. If R6C9 is black, then R12C9 is blank. If R6C9 is blank, then R12C9 is black. Now looking at column 10, the same situation exists as in column 9. But in row 6, only R6C9 or R6C10 can be filled in. Which means R12C9 or R12C10 has to be filled in. Looking at the row clues in row 12, we can see that in either case R12C9 will always be black. The rest solves normally.

This is a great puzzle.

Ditto #s 5 & 8 on the braces.

This one solved straight through for me ... slowly, but no real hitches.

I had no trouble with this one, but I thought it was a pottery project. I had no idea what the two dots meant, until I realized those were braces. I think this is a pretty cute puzzle.

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