Puzzle Description:

A Penguin relaxing under a green sky-light. xD I was too lazy to make it any more detailed...

#1: Cynthia Roach (jcfreak8) on Apr 15, 2009 [SPOILER]

I guessed on the eyes and the beak.

I guessed too, but somehow got lucky on the first try. He's a cute penguin, though! I like the aurora - nice idea.

I think the eyes and beak can be "solvable without guessing" via some extended smile logic -- where is the only place the lower segments can go such that the upper segments will fit?
It's the only logical solution, and it is one that can easily be determined by those who don't want to guess-and-check the possibilities which seem like obvious impossibilities. (besides the fact that the face is symmetrical which assumption makes solving it trivial).

cute.

Here is what I came up with:

If you look at columns 15 and 16, there are two 2 clues remaining. If you would try to place both 2 clues in rows 5 and 6, this would cause row 5 to be invalid. So one or both of the 2 clues MUST be in rows 8 and 9. Knowing this we can put dots in R8C11, R9C12, R9C13, R9C18, R9C19, R8C20.

Next look at column 10. The 1 clue has to go in either R5C10 or R6C10. No matter which way this gets filled in, R5C11 has to be a dot. The same logic can be applied on the other side to make R5C20 a dot.

You will now be able to fill in a lot more dots/blacks. Now you can use smile logic for rows 5 and 8. Then you can finish the puzzle.

Cool logic right at the end.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

Very enjoyable. Fun logic and a cute image.

very fun and adorable!

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