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Comments on Puzzle #12263: This deep QA machine plays a mean game of Jeopardy.
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)

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#1: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Feb 16, 2011

i dont have a clue what this puzzle is (it looked like colored sperm fighting over an egg haha)
but it was fun to solve (as are most of your puzzles)
i started with color logic on the red then ended up with the green diagonal part in the center
i am still not sure on the solvability of "diagonal logic"
but you can see it will be a diagonal
normally you cant tell which way it will go but in order to get 1 green pixel under the red in column 8 it has to go top left to bottom right which i call "visual color logic" haha
#2: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Feb 16, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#3: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Feb 16, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#4: Carol Brand (KarylAnn) on Feb 17, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#5: Trish (tryingmysoul) on Feb 17, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#6: Joel Lynn (furface1) on Feb 17, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#7: Bryan (Cyclone) on Feb 17, 2011
I already know what the image is without solving. =D Looks like guessing is required, I'll look at it another time.
#8: Liz P (lizteach) on Feb 17, 2011 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#9: Gator (Gator) on Feb 18, 2011 [HINT]
Up to the point where there is just the green left, look at the 3 clue in row 14. If you try to place it at R14C6-R14C8, this will make it impossible to finish the 2 clue in column 7. So R14C8 is a dot. A little line logic.

Either R13C8 or R15C8 has to be green. This makes it so that either R13C7 or R15C7 has to be green. So in either case, R11C7 will be a dot.

Now look at row 11 and how row 12 will be affected. There are three possible places to put the 1 clue. It will either cause the 2 clue in row 12 to be at R12C3-R12C4, or R12C6 will be a dot. But both of these situations are the same thing. So in every case, R12C3-R12C4 will be green and R12C6 will be dot. The rest solves normally.

Nice puzzle to solve.
#10: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Feb 18, 2011
Found to be logically solvable by Gator.
#11: Jota (jota) on Feb 18, 2011
Nice one Brian!
#12: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Feb 18, 2011
Thank you Jota. Did you watch the show?
#13: Jota (jota) on Feb 18, 2011
I did, I was impressed by the odd choices Watson had to pick from once in a while.
#14: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Feb 18, 2011
I really thought he would make more wild mistakes. I was at least hoping for a close game.
#15: Joel Lynn (furface1) on Feb 18, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#16: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Feb 18, 2011
Thank you Joel.
#17: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Feb 19, 2011 [SPOILER]
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#18: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Feb 19, 2011
You can watch clips on hulu.com but they of old tournaments (teen, clebrity, etc).
#19: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Feb 19, 2011
Thanks, Brian
#20: Bryan (Cyclone) on Feb 20, 2011
Sarah and others interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3XrYaxKBJY&feature=related

Part 2 is a related video. This is Day 3 of 3, the second and final game. They wanted to talk about Watson a bit so played Game 1 over two days.
#21: Sarah Andrews (sarah) on Feb 20, 2011
Thanks for the link Bryan. It was great to watch!
#22: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 11, 2011
What a fun puzzle! I thought it was very well designed. The logic was tricky but not frustrating, and the image was a nice reward. Clever title/description. Great job, Brian.
#23: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Mar 11, 2011
Thank you Teresa

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