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#1: Byrdie (byrdie) on Jun 21, 2010 [HINT] [SPOILER]

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I did not guess and i liked it!!!

i totally read the title as uninformed instead of uniformed and then i laughed when i read the description
haha
simple edge logic on the 6 (or smile logic) is all thats needed beyond simple line logic

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Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

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thats exactly correct Gator

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Thanks Gator.

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I think this is one of the best 10x10 puzzles I've seen. The image is cool and easily recognizable, and it is interesting to solve (a very straight-forward application of edge logic - dunno why so many people think guessing is needed). I rated the puzzle five stars, but unfortunately small puzzles never seem to do so well in the ratings. They get solved by a more people than the big puzzles do, and many of them don't realize how hard it is to make a really good small puzzle and rate the image by big puzzle standards.

Thank you Jan. I wish I could make some more puzzles I have thought about but unfortunately I'm in the army until May..

Kind of ironic that the only new comment I had was about a puzzle titled "uniformed". Sigh.

I remember this one. I also rated it a 5. I'm a big fan of your puzzles, Mike. I hope you get some R&R time to make more for us in the future. :-)

thx for your service, Mike

Proud of you Mike!

ditto #17

I hope this doesn't feel awkward but.. I'm greek! :)

I'm currently serving my mandatory military service in the
greek army.

Anyhow, thank you for your kindness and I will make a new puzzle with the first chance I get. :)

Ah, same country as one of my favorite composer/musicians - Yanni. :-)

Yassou!

That's ok. I think everyone who serves their country to try to keep peace deserves a pat on the back. :)

yessss and greece needs peace keepers right now

Very funny. People spend so much of their lives talking almost exclusively to people with very similar situations and backgrounds to their own. It's easy to fall into the unconscious habit of just assuming that other people are like you, but in a place like this, it really isn't true in a hundred different ways. I'm always delighted by the odd similarities and difference that pop up.

I can't quite manage universal approval of all who serve their countries. My dad was a dedicated and successful draft dodger, who did everything he could to avoid serving his country, which happened to be Nazi Germany. Patriotism is a wonderful thing, but I can't help noting that the peace would be kept rather more efficiently if there were none of it to be found anywhere.

The current American fervor for expressing our gratitude to our servicemen always sounds a bit guilty to me. We sent our servicemen into a war that has already lasted longer than our involvement in World War II, without any sound reason for getting mixed up in it in the first place. Back "on the home front" we refuse to make even the slightest sacrifices. Instead of the tax increases to pay for the war effort that have been made in past wars, we insist that taxes be cut, because our support for this war is too tepid to be sustained if the voters had to feel even slightly inconvenienced by it, or even had to remember that it is happening nine days out of ten. But we thank our servicemen for making the sacrifices that we don't want to. So I have plenty of respect for our servicemen, but maybe not so much for my countrymen.

None of which has anything to do with Karl, who is evidently performing the period of military service required of all men in many nations. He might be a patriot, or he might not. Has to serve either way. (Conscientious objectors are usually permitted alternate service, but for longer periods, just to prove that they are serious about it.) I thank him for a lovely puzzle, which I'm pretty sure he created on purpose.

Funny Jan. My Dad wasn't quite as successful at dodging the draft of the same Army your Dad did but then ended up spending most of it in either the hospital or POW camps. His father, on the other hand, did manage to avoid service in WWI and I barely missed Viet Nam.

As for the rest of your post, well said. I have respect for our soldiers, especially those who serve now as it's a volunteer army and they know what they're getting into. I have a higher tolerance for the Afghan war than I did for the Iraqi engagement, but I'm not a fan in any case.

Very well put Jan.

the thing with the alternate service in Greece always was a sore subject. Stating that you were a conscientious objector resulted in lawsuits against you (from the greek army) and the only thing you could do, to avoid being arrested, was to sue back claiming your rights, ad infinitum. The last few years though you can -theoretically- serve alternatively provided you have the courage to withstand the vast bureaucracy and are willing to serve for a much longer time..

Being in the army was the absolutely last thing I would like to do but I came to realize that the easiest way to get it off my back was to serve my nine months.

As I said before: "Proud of you Mike"

I love the image and what a great portrait in such a small puzzle. I didn't know Greece had mandatory service. Hope your time goes fast. I was in the (US) Air Force for 14 years and am a disabled vet. I spend a lot of time at the VA hospital and it is heartbreaking to meet young men and women who have been hurt, especially those who have paid too high of a a price - those with spinal cord injuries and traumatic head injuries. My husband served 24 years. Although it seems to be very contraditory (if that is the right word), my husband and I are both very against war.

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