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Comments on Puzzle #120: facing west
By clay deardorff (clayd531)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solutions: multiple    solvability: some guessing  

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#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Nov 27, 2004

This has two possible solutions.
#2: Jan Wolter (jan) on Nov 27, 2004 [SPOILER]
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#3: Mark Conger (aruba) on Nov 28, 2004
Down to two solutions! Nice picture, Clay.
#4: Francesca Gomes (darimini) on Jan 31, 2005 [SPOILER]
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#5: Mark Conger (aruba) on May 23, 2005
This is really a nice puzzle. I think it would be worth fixing the small bit of nonuniqueness that's left.
#6: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Nov 22, 2007
I really like this; your design is good.
#7: Scylla Kat (scyllacat) on Mar 10, 2008
Very enjoyable to solve. If you felt like putting a little more work on it, I'd love to see a unique solution.
#8: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Jun 4, 2009
Getting a round shape IS possible on these grids.
#9: Laura May (jplm117) on Jan 25, 2010 [HINT]
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#10: Jan Wolter (jan) on Jan 27, 2010
The puzzle has multiple solutions. You have to at least guess which is the right one.
#11: Avgvstvs (Avgvstvs) on May 1, 2011 [HINT]
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#12: Kit E. Katz (hello) on Jun 21, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#13: Gator (Gator) on Jun 22, 2011 [HINT]
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#14: Kit E. Katz (hello) on Jun 22, 2011
Gator, I don't doubt your word on that; You have far more solving skills and experience than I. I would defer to your opinion on any puzzle here. I'm still new at this and am still trying to understand some of the logics and how to apply them; however, I usually bail on puzzles with the ? because they can be a pain to solve. What I was trying to say was that I just breezed through the puzzle w/o being aware of the need to guess at any given point, nor did I run into the 'this is one of the solutions but not the chosen solution' message. However, I am willing to concede the possibility that I may have guessed as a reflex action and not been consciouly aware of it; hence my saying "I don't recall having to make any guesses..." instead of "I didn't have to guess". I wasn't trying to be difficult or argumentative, just voicing my surprise.
#15: Byrdie (byrdie) on Sep 14, 2013
I solved this puzzle without guessing. I don't see any evidence that it was changed (unpublished and republished) but I can't recall any place that the solution wasn't clear.
#16: Gator (gator) on Dec 30, 2013 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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