peek at solution solve puzzle
version: 3 quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
Puzzle Description:
Poor little Voodoo-Doll
#1: Carol Brand (KarylAnn) on Jun 5, 2010 [SPOILER]
Great puzzle! I liked solving around the colored squares and watching the picture unfold. Though I must confess I thought it was going to be acupuncture.#2: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jun 5, 2010
i would be most concerned about the green one at the bottom#3: Kai-Uwe Zickerick (conzick) on Jun 5, 2010
ouch
Think it is solvable without guessing...!?#4: Jota (jota) on Jun 6, 2010
Kai I need a "hint" I'm stuck after all the colored ones, the head and the eyes.#5: Kai-Uwe Zickerick (conzick) on Jun 6, 2010 [HINT]
Jota, with a little bit of advanced edge logic in R48 C30 must be a dot. this helps to place the two 11's in C28 and R30#6: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 6, 2010
New version published by conzick.#7: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 6, 2010
New version published by conzick.#8: Kai-Uwe Zickerick (conzick) on Jun 6, 2010
Third try! Now it should be solvable without guessing. Sorry!#9: Kai-Uwe Zickerick (conzick) on Jun 7, 2010
Okay, Folks. I'have solved this one again. I have to admit: it's hard. But it is solvable without guessing. a little edge logic and much of tricky line-logic. you have to search dot by dot for a while, but then it solves easily#10: Gator (Gator) on Jun 7, 2010 [HINT]
Not sure if all of this is necessary or not, but this is how I did it.#11: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 7, 2010
I used edge logic with the 12 clue in column 30. Later in the puzzle I used edge logic again with the 4 clue in row 50. Further on, I used two-way logic with the 2 clue directly beneath the blue 2 clue in column 26 to know that the 3 clue in column 25 starts either at R26C25 or R28C25. This allows you to dot most of that column. The rest solves easily from there.
Found to be logically solvable by Gator.#12: Jota (jota) on Jun 7, 2010
THANKS for your entry!!!#13: Kai-Uwe Zickerick (conzick) on Jun 7, 2010
Thank you very much for your description, Gator!#14: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 7, 2010
Kai, this version I solved, thanks for entry#15: Minnie Fuerstnau (m.fuerstnau) on Jun 7, 2010 [HINT]
I like the puzzle
I ended up making sure that every colored block had a line of black centered on one side... Otherwise I couldn't seem to get anywhere. But I liked the puzzle a lot anyway! Thanks.#16: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jun 8, 2010
Thanks for the hints, Gator. I couldn't solve it without your help.
Very interesting, weird image, Kai. :-)
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