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#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jan 15, 2011

great regular and color logic until the very last part in the upper left corner
i couldnt find a way to get that blue to solve logically
any way for you gator?
maybe i just stopped trying too soon

i never know how to rate puzzles like this on difficulty
lets assume there is a puzzle that requires just a little guessing at the end and the rest was super easy
is that a 1 on difficulty?
in other words how much does guessing influence the difficulty?
or do you just ignore that and base the difficulty rating on how difficult the logically solvable part was only?

I would have to re-do that section over to explain it. It has something to with two-way logic and maybe one other kind of logic as it relates to the 3 in R3 and (I think) the 6 in R4. I'm sure Gator can explain it much better than I can.

I wouldn't say the rest was *super* easy. I found the bit in the lower right corner was more of a two. Not hard, but a little arduous to piece together. I gave the puzzle a 2 for difficulty overall.

Thanks for your entry! Challenging puzzle. No guessing. the 6 blue in row 4 were the last needed after line and color logic for all the other colors.

Thanks for your first WCP entry. Great job

thanks for entry, bartek

congrats

Interesting concept and nice use of color. Not enough detail to make it logically solvable. The upper left needs more.

The 6 clue in row 4 is what I used to finish this one.

R4C1 and R4C2 can be made dots with edge logic (otherwise row 5 would be invalid).

Also, starting on the right in row 4, you can make R4C17-R4C20 dots with edge logic (otherwise this would force a 1 clue in row 5 which would be invalid).

Next (still on row 4) focus on columns 11-13. There are 1 clues to either side of the 3 clue in column 12. If the 6 clue is in R4C11-R4C13 (look at this starting from the right), then R3C11 and R3C13 would be dots making row 3 invalid. So R4C13-R4C16 also have to be dots.

The rest solves with line logic. Excellent puzzle to solve.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

Really nice puzzle, Bartek. The solving process was a good challenge. The image is quite pleasing as well.

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