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#1: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Mar 25, 2009 [HINT]

I was stuck early on, so I went to edge logic. As there were only 2's to use (other than for one 3 at the bottom) I used that 3 and eliminated one dot in the far right corner. The next time I placed the 3 one pixel over to the left, it solved the rest of the way. This is a cool-looking picture. Thanks.

I absolutely could not solve it even using Adam's hint (which was just as confusing to me). Sorry.

Adam uses the term "edge logic" much more broadly than I do. I think he means he tried the bottom row three at the far left. He found a contradiction from that, but he must have searched much further to do that than I normally would consider valid edge logic. Normally I'd just be checking it against one other row, but that doesn't give you anything in this case.

Once that failed, Adam tried the "3" one space further to the left, and that lead to a solution.

That's a procedure I would call guessing.

This puzzle really looks like it would be solvable, if only you could get a start on it somehow. I haven't found a way to do that yet.

Found to require some guessing by jan.

Thank you perfectly explaining what I did, Jan. Yes, I guess that technically is guessing, but in a puzzle like this, there was nothing else to do.

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