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#1: Susan Duncan (medic25733) on Jun 13, 2010
Easy guessing required - once the idea of the puzzle was clear it was straight forward. Very moving image Tom.#2: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 13, 2010
don't worry Susan, gator will fix the ?#3: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jun 13, 2010
questionable#4: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jun 14, 2010 [HINT]
maybe gator will AFfix the question mark
haha
I agree, easy to guess. But guessing is guessing, even when it seems obvious. Visual logic is not true logic, when it comes to solving these. But interesting solve, just the same.#5: Gator (Gator) on Jun 21, 2010 [HINT]
This puzzle requires more of a whole puzzle approach. This puzzle can be logically tackled, just not in the traditional way.#6: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 21, 2010
After the initial line solving, notice that there are 8 5 clues that need to be placed in either the middle (rows 7-11) or bottom (rows 13-17) sections. Also notice that the 1 clues in the middle and bottom sections dictate that 4 of the 5 clues have to be in the middle section and 4 have to be in the bottom section.
Now look at row 8. We need to place 4 3 clues. Notice that no matter where a 3 clue is placed, it will cross either 1 or 2 5 clues. But since we are only allows to cross 4 5 clues, we need to exclude the places where 2 5s are cross with one 3 clue. If you would try to place a 3 clue in R8C18-R8C20, it would cross 2 5 clues. So we know that R8C20 is a dot. You can now do some more line solving.
Using the same logic, we can see that R8C15 will also have to be a dot. A little more line solving.
Now look at the bottom section, and notice that R14C13 will have to be a dot, otherwise we would have 5 5 clues on the bottom. The rest will solve normally from there.
So, based on this, do we call this guessing or not?
your decision Gator... thanks for seeing it my way :)#7: Jota (jota) on Sep 8, 2010
No guessing.#8: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Sep 9, 2010
Found to be logically solvable by Gator.#9: Jota (jota) on Sep 9, 2010
YEAH!!!#10: sdubois (sdubois) on Sep 14, 2010
I just took a trip to France in July, and part of the trip was visiting this very place. It was indeed an awe-inspiring place and a very emotional experience. Thanks for the puzzle (and the memories). :)#11: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Sep 14, 2010
your welcome, sdubois#12: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Jun 16, 2011 [HINT]
Just found this one via Random and agree with Gator. Noticing the 5s vs the 1s was exactly how I solved it.#13: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jun 17, 2011
glad you found me Joe...hiding for a long time#14: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Oct 5, 2017
Nice.
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