Comments on Puzzle #561: Lift
By Jan Wolter (jan)
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quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: line logic only
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quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
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#1: Gitte Olesen (granny40) on Oct 26, 2006
cute. Good idea. :-)#2: Isabella Ambrey (izzy.1) on Jul 10, 2007
Nice little picture! :)#3: Gypso (Gypso) on Jul 21, 2007 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#4: Bionerd (nieboo) on Oct 13, 2007 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#5: Adam Nielson (monkey) on Aug 10, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: Jota (Jota) on Sep 19, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#7: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Jul 27, 2009
Must be acrylic. Very sturdy.#8: Paul Fritsch (pfrit) on May 9, 2010
How do you rate a puzzle like this? It is a terrible picture. It is, however, a great picture for its size. Is this a 1, 2, 3, or 4? For a 10x10, it is great and deserves a 4. Without considering its size, it is a 2 (in my book as there is no guessing). I am going with 3 because this is as much thinking as I want to do before bed.#9: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on May 10, 2010
Paul, I rated this a 4 in quality (I know how hard it is to make a good small picture) and a 1 in difficulty. It is sad how low most small puzzles are rated. They are more difficult to make both beautiful and interesting than the larger ones.#10: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 12, 2010
People use ratings to choose a puzzle to solve. When they are choosing a puzzle they already know some things, including the size and the number of colors. So I tend to give ratings that tell how good I think the puzzle is, given the size and the number of colors. Actually I probably over compensate a bit, because I know small puzzles get under-rated so I'm trying to push them up a bit.#11: Carol Brand (KarylAnn) on Dec 7, 2010
(Not that that makes much difference - one of the reasons that small puzzles get under-rated is that many, many more people solve them, which means my ratings make little difference.
I tend to rate difficulty a bit more on an absolute scale, but I try not to rate a big puzzle as harder just because it has more squares to click on. If it's always easy to find a way forward, then it's easy no matter how big it is. So I tend to rate difficulty on the depth of thinking needed, not on the duration. But it's a rare small puzzle that requires much depth, or much searching around for a place where you can make progress.
I love the small puzzles...great job Jan!#12: Kadou (Kadou) on May 8, 2011
Ditto #2, #9 #10. Good job Jan!#13: Susan (Susan) on Jul 13, 2017
This is a terrific small, easy puzzle. Hope to see more of these from anyone who will make them, thanks.#14: Yonah Kondor (yokon965) on Feb 20, 2024 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#15: OldMan (PeteJ) on Feb 20, 2024
Cute and fun to solve.
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