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Puzzle Description:
Indus script on a seal found near what was once a granary in Harappa, dating to before 2000 BC. When pressed into clay the impression would be reversed. Since the Indus script is read from right to left, the sign at the far right of the seal would in fact be the last sign of the inscription.
#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 3, 2010 [HINT]
Edge logic is needed to complete the top of the sign on the left.#2: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 3, 2010 [SPOILER]
Here is the seal with the script:#3: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Mar 3, 2010 [SPOILER]
http://www.harappa.com/indus2/133.html
Here is an interesting article published last year about how "Artificial Intelligence Cracks 4,000-Year-Old Mystery":
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript/
Keep them coming. Good job. The thing on the far right looks like corn.#4: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 4, 2010 [SPOILER]
Thanks, Adam.#5: Jane Doe (telly) on Mar 5, 2010
Their crop signs are mostly with just one center stalk. The V shape and U shape signs usually signify containers, according to the historians. The Harappans were an agricultural community and they engaged in trade via the ports, so this interpretation makes sense if these seals were used to identify crops and containers for trade or shipping. One source thinks the "horns" on the U signify a cow, which would also make sense as the cow is/was sacred to the Harappans and many of their seals seem to have religious significance.
ditto #3. :)#6: Sallie Wilbur (sarriemom) on Mar 6, 2010
Ditto #3 & 5. :-)#7: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Mar 16, 2010
Found to be logically solvable by Gator.#8: Gator (Gator) on Mar 16, 2010 [HINT]
I believe you mean smile logic for the top left. Nice puzzle.#9: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 16, 2010
You are right, Gator. Thanks.#10: Martial (marso) on Sep 3, 2011
What to do, what to do? Change "edge logic" to "smile logic" in my first comment? Then everyone will wonder what the heck your comment means. Or leave it? Oh heck, it the bigger scheme of things, it doesn't really matter. What's really important is working on my next puzzle. :-)
Interesting puzzle, the origins too.#11: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Feb 15, 2017 [HINT]
You're both right, Theresa.
Smile logic is a specific form of extended edge logic. So deep edge logic on the 5 in r6 vs r4 will show that if the 5 goes too far in either direction, there won't be room for the remaining 1s in r4.
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