Comments on Puzzle #16243: Claudia
By Marie-Louise Ambrey (marz71)
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solvability: line logic only
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quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
Puzzle Description:
Claudia the Canary.
#1: Claudia (clau_bolson) on Oct 31, 2011 [SPOILER]
This one was for me? Lovely canary!#2: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Oct 31, 2011 [HINT]
Terrific puzzle!#3: Tom King (sgusa) on Oct 31, 2011
Not sure that it was necessary, but I used edge logic on the 5 in R1 to dot C1-3. Everything else was line logic.
Great puzzle! Thanks.#4: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Oct 31, 2011 [HINT] [SPOILER]
LLS#5: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on Oct 31, 2011 [SPOILER]
Nice puzzle, but shouldn't Claudia have been a clownfish (or clam) to keep the alliteration?
How nice! I was afraid you'd made her a chicken, at first. :)#6: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Oct 31, 2011 [HINT]
Thanks for the LLS heads-up, Joe. Great fun!#7: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Oct 31, 2011
Just as a rule, if the option to mark a puzzle as "guessing required" is not there, then by default isn't that puzzle line logically solvable?#8: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Nov 1, 2011 [SPOILER]
I guess the only exceptions would be for puzzles where they initially had that option, but either Jan or Gator made a ruling one way or the other on solvability.
So Claudia,do you sing beautifully like a canary does,nice one marz.:)#9: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Nov 1, 2011 [HINT]
If that's true, Adam, that would be cool. I'm fairly certain that I've LL puzzles with early ?s, but I could be wrong.#10: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Nov 1, 2011
Your probably right David.#11: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Nov 1, 2011
Ultimately it won't much difference to me since I usually try to exhaust LL first and rarely, rarely pay attention to the ?s and not sure I've ever looked to see how I can or can't rate the solvability prior to completing the puzzle. Really, though, Adam would know better than I would.#12: Teresa K (fasstar) on Nov 1, 2011
Lovely puzzle. You are amazing, Marz.#13: Marie-Louise Ambrey (marz71) on Nov 1, 2011 [SPOILER]
Yes Claudia, this one is for you, glad you like it :)#14: Claudia (clau_bolson) on Nov 1, 2011 [SPOILER]
Joe, I did think of that, but I imagined Claudia as a beautiful yellow canary, singing away merrily to herself.
Thanks all for the lovely comments :)
Marie Louise, I'm so happy! Thanks!#15: Marie-Louise Ambrey (marz71) on Nov 1, 2011
Fun you see me like that! I AM a singer, I've sung in choirs for twenty years, I'm a soprano. I don't think I have ever mentioned it here.
Wow! Thanks for letting us know Claudia, my intuition was right :)#16: larrry grizzard (gizzard) on Nov 2, 2011 [HINT] [SPOILER]
I'm not sure if I guessed or not, my lack of patience had me put black in certain places I "knew" they'd go (for instance, R1 beak) without eliminating right side squares. Maybe that's guessing, maybe that's knowing Marz doesn't generally leave black dots floating in space with no relevance to the solution. It came out right without having to redo, maybe it was just shortcutting not guessing, maybe it was a form of guessing. [Note to Marie Louise: this comment is NOT a challenge to leave black dots floating in space!]#17: Marie-Louise Ambrey (marz71) on Nov 2, 2011
Ok Larrry, gotcha! :D#18: Gator (gator) on Nov 3, 2011 [HINT]
#7 - correct
#9 - the only time I have seen line logic solvable puzzles with a '?' is when the first version of that puzzle was not line logic solvable. If the first version (and likely only version) is line logic solvable, then it would not have a '?' and you would not have an option to vote for the solvability (per #7).
Great puzzle. The only place I saw where people might have trouble was knowing R13C5 was black as R13C6 was either part of the 2 clue or 3 clue.
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