Puzzle Description:

no more achey breakey big mistakey

#1: Minnie Fuerstnau (m.fuerstnau) on Feb 11, 2010 [SPOILER]

Great job for a first puzzle! Scissors are really hard to do, I bet, and these are extra nice. Please feel free to make another puzzle for us, and welcome!

Ah, we have had lots of these on webpbn, but not any as challenging and rewarding as this one. The color logic was difficult but not frustrating. Great fun to solve! And I like the title and description too - very clever.

I see this is your first puzzle here. If your future creations are as good as this one, then I hope you make many, many more!

Interesting solve. It was very hard to get started. I had to use massive amounts of extended edge logic everywhere just to place a ton of dots before I could even get my first black squares placed (R2, C10/11). Then I got some pixels on C1/2/3.

How did everyone else get started solving it? The color logic didn't help me get started (it did later on, in placing the blue 6 in R3, and the blue 5 in R18). Did I miss something early on that would have been easier?

Yes, there have been plenty of puzzles created on this topic. Nice job, though.

great puzzle and a challenge. :)

I don't think I have come across a puzzle so hard to get started. I finally hit upon fencing off the possible blue square area with dots and then using what I suppose would be called internal edge logic. Then it got considerably easier.

I started by eliminating the bottom 21 squares in C1 & C2 with edge logic, but then I saw the blue edge logic with the 6 in R3. Solved pretty nicely.

I got started by focusing on the blue. You basically have a 15x16 grid with constraints from the black cells. I started with rows 10 and 11. You can get 2 black cells on row 10 and 2 blue cells on row 11. You can also get some cells from columns 9 and 10.

This was great color logic.

Good image.

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