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quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
Puzzle Description:
Swan
#1: Gator (Gator) on Jul 10, 2009 [HINT]
A little edge logic required towards the end.#2: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jul 10, 2009
Nice image and fun challenge. I did not need to guess. Good one, Gator!#3: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Jul 10, 2009 [HINT]
Great small puzzle. No guessing. Edge logic; that's all.#4: Shae (shaekin) on Jul 10, 2009 [HINT]
This was so much fun to solve for a small puzzle! I used a little smile logic at the top but it took more work than average. Good work!#5: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Jul 10, 2009 [HINT]
Very nice! Agreed that edge logic was necessary. I *almost* thought it unsolvable, but I got it in the end with logic alone.#6: Gator (Gator) on Jul 10, 2009
Thanks Teresa, Adam, Shae, and Robyn.#7: Eludwar (elfluvsdwarf) on Jul 10, 2009
Nice one Gator! I'm really liking your puzzles. 15x15-30x30 B&W are my favorite.#8: Agneta (aggge) on Jul 10, 2009
Beautiful! :o)#9: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jul 10, 2009
Found to be logically solvable by jan.#10: Gator (Gator) on Jul 11, 2009
@elf - Thanks. I may try a color one at some point, but I've done B&W for so long that it will stay B&W for a while. I'm still getting used to solving color logic puzzles.#11: Jota (jota) on Jul 12, 2009
@Agneta - Thank you too.
Loved it!#12: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jul 12, 2009
I like solving the small B&W puzzles too. I do every one of those on the site, but only a few of the larger ones.#13: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jul 12, 2009
I got impatient and did a little educated guessing but I probably could have solved without it. Pretty little puzzle.#14: Byrdie (byrdie) on Jul 12, 2009 [HINT]
I solved with no guessing. As in #4 a little bit of smile logic at the top. Didn't really use edge logic at all.#15: gregg licht (lgreg) on Jul 12, 2009
Always grit my teeth when I start one of Gator's puzzles because I know they're going to be tough. But I also know I'm going to feel like I accomplished something when it's done. Also kinda of typical for one of his puzzles, I got a slow start, sat there and stared at it for a bit and all of a sudden something fell into place and the rest of it solved rather quickly.
This was a challenging puzzle with a nice picture reward...especially in such a small format.#16: Jane Doe (telly) on Jul 12, 2009
once again it was so fun and challenging with a rewarding pic at the end. great job. keep 'em coming!#17: Tonia Bergh (tonia) on Jul 15, 2009
Ditto #14 and #16! Small puzzle, big challenge! Thanks again!#18: Josh Greifer (joshgreifer) on Apr 4, 2010
great little puzzle#19: Mike Kam (Zl.oft) on Jun 29, 2010 [SPOILER]
Really nice puzzle! When I saw the title I thought it was a swan since "Cygnus" reminded the Greek "Κύκνος" (Kyknos) = swan, but then I said "naaah.. it must be a flower or something". But then, it was a swan after all! I didn't know that the word (in some form) was used in English as well.#20: Gator (Gator) on Jun 29, 2010 [SPOILER]
I pulled it from the name of the constellation. I usually have heard it said as "Cygnus the swan".#21: Byrdie (byrdie) on Jun 29, 2010 [SPOILER]
Baby swans are called cygnets.#22: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Oct 19, 2010
great puzzle for both image and solving#23: Diana W (aeris) on Jan 13, 2011 [SPOILER]
I like that it was small but hard. :) Great image too.#24: Gator (Gator) on Jan 14, 2011
Thanks Diana.#25: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Jun 15, 2018 [HINT]
I totally agree with #s 4 and 14. Smile logic works as well as edge logic for this one. Smile is my personal preference over edge, but EL comes up more often. I saw the smile up at the top and the answer fell into place.#26: Jill Tallmer (Yidl) on Dec 16, 2018
This really catches the curve of the neck. Nice.
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