Comments on Puzzle #5720: Compass...
By Gator (gator)
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: line logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
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#1: Meg Tayler (rebelcat) on Apr 29, 2009 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: Meg Smith (Mamadragonfreak) on Apr 29, 2009
looks like one to me#3: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Apr 29, 2009
Nice one.#4: Jota (jota) on Apr 29, 2009
Once again Gator, very nice but too symmetric for me.#5: Gator (Gator) on Apr 29, 2009
I'll work on getting you some more that are not symmetrical. :) They are more fun anyway.#6: Rea Aksglæde Karlsen (Rea) on Apr 30, 2009 [HINT]
EDIT: BTW, the other three (5732, 5733, 5735) I have out there are not symmetrical.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#7: Gator (Gator) on Apr 30, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#8: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Apr 30, 2009
A lot of people like to solve puzzles quickly, and when they know it's symmetrical, it's so much faster and easier to just, for example, put a row of 3 black on the left when you know you just put in the corresponding spaces on the right. I think some people get bored with a symmetrical puzzle, so it's harder to stay consistent and line-solve it when you know you can much more quickly just fill in "where you know it should go." Something like that, anyway.#9: Jan Wolter (jan) on Apr 30, 2009
Griddlers.net bans all symmetrical puzzles. But they ban all sorts of things (hearts, flags, puzzles that can't be solved with line solving alone).#10: Gator (Gator) on Apr 30, 2009
Different PBN sites have different rules, obviously. But so do different people who solve PBN puzzles. Which is great. Everyone should follow the solving rules that they are most comfortable with. On this site I have a particular definition of what I consider "logically solvable," but I recognize that many users couldn't care less. They use a combination of guessing and solving, and as long as they can get to the solution they are happy. That's why many puzzles that aren't logically solvable nevertheless have pretty good ratings.
Given how many people guess freely when solving puzzles, it's hardly a wonder that many also use symmetry. But hardly anyone really likes it. Every time you figure out a cell, you have to click two (or four or eight) copies of it to mark it. That significantly increases the amount of clicking relative to thinking.
Thanks for the insight. "Logically solvable" is a requirement for me to get to the end of a puzzle.#11: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Apr 30, 2009
Very pretty.#12: Teresa K (fasstar) on May 1, 2009 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#13: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Mar 18, 2010
Once i got all 4 5's it was a done deal, nice puzzle.#14: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Sep 25, 2010
very pretty; a great design.#15: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Feb 23, 2012 [SPOILER]
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