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solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Bryan (Cyclone) on Jan 31, 2011
Guessing? I didn't have any difficulty with this, just a little edge logic.#2: Jane Doe (telly) on Jan 31, 2011
The edge logic I did involved looking ahead quite a ways. Maybe someone else can do it without that.#3: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jan 31, 2011
Congrats on 16 years of marriage Ron!
congrats & thanks for entry#4: Meira Bracha (mbracha) on Jan 31, 2011
Lovely. Have many more happy years together.#5: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jan 31, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jan 31, 2011
i agree with telly i felt like i had to look ahead several steps#7: Jota (jota) on Jan 31, 2011
what did i miss?
i see the ring and i assume its around a finger (the blue part) but i cant tell how the finger is positioned and what portion we are actually seeing
Nice entry! Thanks!#8: Ron Jacobson (shmily999) on Feb 1, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#9: Niki Cholette (Niki420) on Feb 1, 2011
yup, no guessing involved. Congrats Ron.#10: Gator (Gator) on Feb 3, 2011 [HINT]
Color/line logic gets the red and black done. Edge logic on the 4 clue in column 15 dots R1C15-R3C15. Edge logic on the 2 clue in row 1 dots R1C14.#11: Byrdie (byrdie) on Feb 12, 2011 [HINT]
Looking at the possible places that the 4 clue can go in column 15, in every case (looking no more than 2 moves ahead), R8C14 will also be blue. A little more line logic.
Looking at column 6, no matter where you place the 2 clue R5C5 will also be a dot.
And I'm stuck at this point? So what's the next move?
No guessing for me. I used color and line logic to compelete the red & black. Edge logic on column 15 got me started on the blue and the rest finished with straight line logic. Not sure how to answer Gator's question.#12: Bryan (Cyclone) on Feb 13, 2011
Uh...Jane, you misdirected that line in comment #2. =)#13: Jane Doe (telly) on Feb 15, 2011
Oops! Don't know how I messed that up. Sorry! I fixed it. :P#14: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Aug 2, 2014
no guessing!#15: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jun 14, 2018
No guessing, but the right edge took some thought.#16: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 24, 2023
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by blurglecruncheon.#17: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Dec 24, 2023 [HINT]
Going on 30 years here now it looks like! Assuming no bad things.
Place black/red with color logic.
C20R1-3 are dots by edge logic.
If the 5 ends at C16 in R2, the 2's in R1/3 can't fit in C12-14.
If the first 2 in R3 is not in C4-5, that fixes R3. Then the first 2 in R4 is in C4-5 or we have a blue in C16, making a 2 there in C3-4. That makes a contradiction in R1C10.
But then if the first 2 in R4 starts at C14, that squeezes out the 2-2 in row 1.
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