Comments on Puzzle #510: waving proud
By john doe (zxcvbnm)
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solutions: multiple solvability: some guessing
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solutions: multiple solvability: some guessing
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#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Sep 1, 2006
Hmm. Each read strip has two possible solutions, for 128 possible solutions total. It is easy enough to guess the right one, but good puzzles should need no guessing.#2: m2 (mercymercy) on Sep 9, 2006 [SPOILER]
This is the fourth puzzle on this theme on the site, I think. It's kind of cool that all 50 stars are there, but I really had to struggle to stay awake while doing the puzzle. Lots of drawing and not much thinking.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#3: Jan Wolter (jan) on Sep 9, 2006
Well, the one good thing about american flag puzzles is that you can pretty much always recognize them instantly just by looking at the side clues, without needing to solve them. So if you get too tired of them, they are easy to avoid.#4: Rebekah "BeagleBag" (beaglebag) on Dec 15, 2007 [HINT]
Here in the US we've been rather saturated with images of the flag ever since 9/11. Usually it's fine.
But sometimes I find it deeply disturbing, like when every shop owned by an Arab-American, or every taxi driven by an Arab-American, suddenly had an American flag in the window. In the country I wish I was living in, Arab-Americans would have no more felt the necessity than anyone else.
Others are just strange. In the hardware aisle of the local department store, there is one kind of tool that is available in a model covered from end to end with images of the flag and the statue of liberty: box-cutter knives.
Sometimes, it seems, the American Flag is a bandaid we stick over deep unresolved troubles to try to hide the from sight.
Flags are good for a lot of things, I guess.
Anyway, there are danged few other flags that would make any kind of a workable paint-by-number puzzles. Germany? No white. Japan? France? Dullsville. There's something American's can be proud of: we have the most puzzling flag.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#5: Zuzana (Mori.1) on Aug 24, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: Bryan (Cyclone) on Jan 31, 2014 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#7: Byrdie (byrdie) on Dec 23, 2017 [HINT] [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints and spoilers#8: Phill Ash (phlash) on Mar 3, 2018
Too large
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