Comments on Puzzle #5737: Logo of Victory
By Mac Vail (MV17)
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version: 3 quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: moderate lookahead
peek at solution solve puzzle
version: 3 quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
Puzzle Description:
The logo of the Nike company. This company was named after the Greek god of Victory of the same name .
#1: BlackCat (BlackCat) on May 1, 2009
Too small. Too easy.#2: Jota (jota) on May 2, 2009 [SPOILER]
The blue makes it extra easy!#3: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 10, 2009
New version published by MV17.#4: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 10, 2009
New version published by MV17.#5: b h (bhh10583) on May 10, 2009
I believe Nike was a name for Athena, who was a goddess.#6: Bionerd (nieboo) on May 11, 2009 [SPOILER]
I like how it goes off the page#7: Eludwar (elfluvsdwarf) on Jul 10, 2009 [SPOILER]
Nike is the goddess of victory. Athena is the goddess of wisdom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology)#8: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Jun 14, 2021 [HINT]
The edge logic here is simple and satisfying. From the numbers it just feels like it should be an easy puzzle, if you know where to look, and there's such quick inflection from line logic (gets only 2 dots) to how finding the right 2nd column breaks everything wide open. So I like this a lot.#9: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Jun 14, 2021 [SPOILER]
Designer Carolyn Davidson created the swoosh in 1971 and was paid $35 for it. No royalties.#10: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jun 14, 2021
that's awful!#11: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Feb 15, 2023 [SPOILER]
Bear in mind that in 1971 Nike needed a new logo amid lawsuits from a Japanese manufacturer...not financially ideal circumstances for a company nobody could have anticipated to be what it is today. A few years after Nike went public, Davidson was thrown a reception and given a diamond ring and 500 shares of stock that she supposedly never sold...which would be worth over $4,000,000 today. $240,000 an hour for one design and notoriety that guaranteed future career success? It's hardly a sob story.
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