Comments on Puzzle #6517: Not for the Faint of Heart
By Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100)
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quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 17, 2009
The title refers both to the subject matter and the difficulty of the puzzle. My first hint tells how to get past all the tricky parts—the ones the "helper" function could not figure out.#2: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 17, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#3: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 17, 2009 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#4: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Aug 17, 2009
I got to a point where I got stuck. I looked at your hints, but they didn't help.#5: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 17, 2009 [HINT]
#1... What about the upper right corner?
#2... I already had that.
#3... Yes, that's true, but the 4 could still go on either
side of that area. Or the 1 in that row could go there.
#4... Why? It could be either on my puzzle.
#5... When I tried to place a black in R35 C9, yes, the 5 has
to go above that. Yes, the 4 in R31 has to go in that
same area, but it didn't violate C6 at all.
Maybe I missed something.
I tried to send a picture of the point I was at when I got stuck. It didn't work. I tried to save the page and copy/paste it in here, too. Didn't work. Any ideas on how to do post the picture or the link to post it here?
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#6: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 17, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#7: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Aug 17, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#8: bengt embrey (bengt) on Aug 17, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#9: bengt embrey (bengt) on Aug 17, 2009
P.S. nicely done!#10: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Aug 17, 2009
Somehow I find that very hard to believe. But if you did, then kudos to you. Really.#11: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Aug 17, 2009
Anyone else have any thoughts on this?#12: Tonia Bergh (tonia) on Aug 17, 2009
Nice image! I also was able to solve this with just a minimum of lucky guessing; I started with the row of 18, and somehow it just all came together. I'm not smart enough to get as scientific about these things as some of you do! But some days my muse is with me!#13: Gator (Gator) on Aug 18, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#14: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 18, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#15: Gator (Gator) on Aug 18, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#16: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 18, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#17: Gator (Gator) on Aug 18, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#18: Leigh Cousins (pog) on Aug 18, 2009
This puzzle was difficult but slowly plodding away I managed to solve it with no guesswork, a small amount of edge logic and a lot of going round in circles.#19: Teresa K (fasstar) on Aug 19, 2009 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#20: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Aug 19, 2009
The best definition of intuition that I've seen is "unconscious cognition." It does not mean that intuition is illogical, but rather that you are not conscious of each individual step. The advantage is some great insights; the disadvantage is difficulty explaining the insights, as well as the chance of making an error somewhere that you aren't even aware of.#21: Petra Lassen (stjarna) on Aug 20, 2009
I'm glad you liked the puzzle!
Just the right amount of difficulty! Thank you!#22: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Aug 24, 2009
Found to be logically solvable by Gator.#23: Jan Wolter (jan) on Oct 28, 2009
Some very tricky parts here, but I was able to solve it logically. And what a lovely image.#24: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jul 12, 2011
i agree with everything jan said plus i would add a very fun solve#25: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Sep 26, 2011 [HINT]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view hints#26: Ailsa Hebert (bazette3) on Jul 8, 2021
Really enjoyed the solve. Thanks!
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