Puzzle Description:

You should have breakfast every morning. Two pieces of toast, sunny-side up egg, and two pieces of bacon on a plate.

#1: Gator (Gator) on Oct 16, 2009 [HINT]

Easy edge logic on all four edges to start and then a little more difficult edge logic towards the end.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

Reminds me of my puzzle #2883, since they both have the same theme. That puzzle was one of my earlier ones, though, before I cared about quality.

Ditto #1. Once I got "stuck," I used edge logic on C17 to solve it.

Enjoyed it! Thanks, Gator.

PS...Adam, no wonder you get in hot water sometimes...you just told Gator his is like a puzzle you did before you cared about quality. Now I know what you mean...you're trying to say the puzzle you did wasn't as good as Gator's...but it comes out sounding as if Gator's puzzle is not good...lol. It's called putting your foot in your mouth...or in this case, breakfast in your mouth!

LOL. If that's they way he wants to take it, then so be it. I never put my foot in my mouth. I just say things how they are. :-)

At the same time, however, the overall quality really isn't that great anyway (2-square quality after 17 raters) and Gator knows that. It is recognizable at best.

The solvability was great, though.

I certainly rated it higher than that. Partly it was just fun. While I was solving it, my kids were sure it was going to be a face. The actual result was a fun surprise. Could a better picture of the same thing be dome on a 20x20 grid? Maybe, but not a heck of a lot better.

No worries here. I learned a long time ago that larger, aesthetically pleasing puzzles get higher quality ratings. The larger you make a puzzle, the more details you can add, the "better" the image. Haven't we had this conversation before? :)

Yes, we have had this discussion before. I just had to explain myself in response to #4.

For the longest time it looked like a face. Of course, now that I've finished it, it looks like a face saying, "Ooooh! There's bacon on my face!!"

:)

Fun puzzle. I first swizzled one piece of bacon the wrong way so the second wouldn't fit -- no one has only one slice of bacon :). Family tradition -- at a breakfast buffet, we share a "only bacon on this plate" -- stacked high. Delicious.

Thanks!

Wonderful puzzle Gator, lots of fun to solve, and good image, while I was waiting for the description to come up, thanks to the lag, I realised what I was looking at, and I liked what I saw :) Yum!

Thanks!

But where's the fiber?

It's high-fiber bread. :)

I used edge logic only on the 8 in column 1, and then the rest of the edges solved with regular line logic. Much later, when I got stuck again, I used a little edge logic on the 3 in column 18, then back to line logic again.

I liked how a little bit of edge logic would get cascades of line logic going again -- that felt good to solve.

Thanks Valerie!

After your comment, I was curious if only EL on one of the any of the 8s would be required. I confirmed that is the case. So you can start on R1, R20, C1, or C20 and no more edge logic will be required until towards the end.

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