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Comments on Puzzle #5775: Shivers in the cold
By Gator (gator)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead  

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#1: Gator (Gator) on May 4, 2009 [HINT]

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#2: Shae (shaekin) on May 4, 2009 [HINT]
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#3: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on May 4, 2009
Ditto #2.
#4: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on May 4, 2009 [HINT]
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#5: zandperl (zandperl) on May 4, 2009 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#6: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on May 4, 2009
Congratualtions, zandperl. You are moving up in the world.
#7: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on May 5, 2009
Found to be logically solvable by jan.
#8: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 5, 2009
This is a first rate puzzle. A nice image, and really delightful to solve. It must have taken a lot of work to get it working so nicely. Great job!
#9: Gator (Gator) on May 5, 2009
It took me about 3 hours if I remember correctly. This was made without a "solution checker". So, it was - create the puzzle, try to solve, make adjustments, rinse and repeat.
#10: Jan Wolter (jan) on May 5, 2009
Yeah, I remember how much work this was before we had those tools.

But even the "checker" and "helper" don't do the whole job for you when you are working on puzzles of this level of difficulty. You still need to do a lot of manual solving. The checker will filter out the versions with multiple solutions, and he helper will do the easy parts of the puzzle for you, but you still need to do the hard parts manually.

Really, manual solving will always be a part of good puzzle design.
#11: Jota (jota) on May 5, 2009
Brilliant! Thanks!
#12: Twillis (twillis) on May 7, 2009
A fun challenge, thank you.
#13: Teresa K (fasstar) on May 9, 2009 [HINT]
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#14: Byrdie (byrdie) on May 10, 2009 [HINT]
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#15: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Mar 22, 2010
like the bird
#16: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 23, 2010 [HINT]
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#17: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Oct 14, 2010
loved it
#18: Diana W (aeris) on Jan 13, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#19: Gator (Gator) on Jan 14, 2011
Thanks!
#20: gail chiovaro (merrivale) on Apr 29, 2012
I finally understand what "edge logic" means! Thanks for a puzzle thaat makes it clear.
#21: Gator (gator) on Apr 30, 2012 [HINT]
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#22: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jun 12, 2021
Very cute!!
#23: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Oct 25, 2022
Awesome puzzle, image and solve. Bravo!

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