Puzzle Description:

An anagram for Trumpeter Swan.

#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on May 23, 2010 [HINT]

Nice puzzle. I half expected a Jackson Pollock mess!

Solvable with only logic. (However, this is the wrong way. -- see comment 8 for the -hopefully- right way.)

There is a smile in the center of the puzzle. R13-14, c9-13 needs smile logic.


A bit of extended edge logic finishes it. At the end, there were only blue clues left in the upper right and no line logic to be had.

The blue 2 in c16 has only two places to go.

The upper one causes a conflict in c17, so it must be the lower one.

Joe, i solved it by making that wing look like the other..then just stair steps

oh, sorry, Alison .... thanks :-)

I used to volunteer for the Trumpeter Swan Society. Somewhere at the Fish and Wildlife Service are a whole bunch of my handmade maps. Before the computer there was the pen, photocopier, scissors, hole punch, spray adhesive technique. All that painstaking work was worth it though. I've been seeing a free-flying pair nesting not too far from my house for the last 3 years.

Very nice puzzle Alison and I love how you tied a word puzzle into it.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

infrapinklizzard
i never got c17 to have an error by placing the blue 2 clue in c16 in the upper portion even after extended edge logic but i got errors in other areas when placing that 2 clue and/or i got errors in c17 when i tried edge logic on the 1 clue in c15

Erm, you're right. I actually solved it first differently, and then looked for a simpler way. I didn't look hard enuf.

Edge logic on the blue 1 in c15 is the way I did it originally.

From here: http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx9C6AS
there are only three positions for that blue 1.

R6 will cause a conflict in r6c17 (must be both white and blue)

R8 will cause the same type of conflict in r8c17

So r9c15 must be blue. The rest is then line solvable.

Very clever idea, Alison. I like the image.

The fancy edge logic was a bit tricky and took too much looking ahead for me, but I can see how it is doable by looking at Joe's notes.

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