Puzzle Description:

A few leaves falling off a tree.

#1: Jane Doe (telly) on Apr 20, 2009

nice image. if you just spent a little more time you could make it so there's no guessing required.

This is only my third puzzle, and so far I can only solve puzzles of difficulty 2.5, so I'm not sure yet what requires guessing and what doesn't. Could you clarify for me what part of it required guessing so I can fix it?

I couldn't even make a start. The blank rows and columns are easy of course, From the "13 1" row I could fill in one cell near the center. Using edge logic I could fill in two white cells in the lower right. And them I'm stuck.

I'd try enlarging the smaller leaves in the corners, scaling them up a bit to fill in more of the white space. You could make them look a bit more leaf-like as they get a bit bigger too, so the image will actually look a bit better too.

There's a possibility that you could go the other direction and remove the smaller leaves. That might make it possible to get a start with edge logic, though you might have to do some subtle manipulation of the image to make it work. However, I can't really recommend this if you aren't actually good at using edge logic to solve puzzles. Probably it's better to work toward making a nice looking puzzle that you know how to solve.

Excellent, hard puzzle! I was able to solve it with backtracking but no guessing, though it took me a couple of days. I wonder if it was modified after the comments above; is there any way to tell?

I have not yet modified it. If I do so, I'll save it as a separate puzzle since a few people have solved it in this version.

As far as I can tell, this one requires looking ahead way too many moves to be considered logically solvable. So, I agree that it requires guessing.

Nice image, but impossible to solve logically.

Very nice image. Trial and error required to solve it.

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