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Comments on Puzzle #147: rainbow singer
By clay deardorff (clayd531)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solutions: multiple    solvability: much guessing?  

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#1: Mark Conger (aruba) on Jan 12, 2005

Dunno if this has a unique solution - I had to apply the symmetry theorem and also guess a lot.
#2: Sheri Swartz (sheris) on Jan 13, 2005
I had to do a bunch of guessing mainly using the symmetry guidelines.
#3: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jan 14, 2005
I never know how to rate these things. Is the difficulty of a puzzle that can only be solved by guessing high? I don't think that's what people searching for "difficult" puzzles are looking for.

I should probably add a "solvable" checkbox to the rating system. If you think the puzzle is solvable by logic alone, you can check that when you solve the puzzle. Then the percentage of users who consider it solvable would be reported. Need to think about this more.
#4: Susan Spitz (punchy sue) on Mar 16, 2005
It's not easy being green. Alleyoo ed bedda! Try working out pictures on graph paper and see where you have to guess.
#5: Robert Kummerfeldt (rmkummerfeldt) on Dec 7, 2006 [SPOILER]
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#6: Jan Wolter (jan) on Dec 7, 2006
Well cool. I'd never managed to figure out if there really were multiple solutions.
#7: george newton (george) on Jun 24, 2011
to much guessing symmetry only solved for me

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