Puzzle Description:

First attempt.

#1: Trish (tryingmysoul) on Jun 14, 2010

Good for you! I had to do some guessing, but that may be my stupidity.

Had a couple of moments of look-ahead, but it solved without any guessing. I like the way it solved...the martini popped out early enough to draw me in :)

Good for you Beth. It was fun to solve.

Nice!

I know how the image should be finished out based on the title, but I cannot find a logically way to finish this one out. I used edge logic to place 5 or 6 cells of the 8 clues on the borders, and color logic lets you finish the blue, green, and red.

David - can you offer some insight?

i would be honored....with the edge logic you mention and line and color logic, i got to this point:
http://tinypic.com/r/fyj0p0/6
(let me know if something there needs explaining)
from there i jumped to one quick look ahead and it line-logic solved from there:
Looking at that image, imagine C6(&C7)R1 black, that turns C6R1 and C7R2 black....dots below all the way to the green and dots left on R2. That leaves a 3x3 square adjacent with three "2" clues in the rows. That would force a vertical "3" down the middle on C4 which violates the "2". THEREFORE, dot C6R1 and black C14R1 and you're off again.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

I'm going to go ahead and mark this one solvable with logic. I would put this one in the "much look ahead" category (when it gets implemented) as it requires 2.5 (technically 3, but filling in resulting blacks AND dots at the same time is not hard to see even though it is technically looking two moves ahead) moves look ahead. Thanks David.

great job at your first puzzle. I had to try a few times to get the lower red hand right even though I knew what it was supposed to be. If it's always 5 somewhere, then it's always martini time.

nice!

Nice puzzle.

Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by gator.

Re-classified.

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