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Comments on Puzzle #16279: Code lock - logical solvable by human
By Marena Sasena (sachama)

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  quality:   difficulty:   solvability: moderate lookahead?  

Puzzle Description:

Congratulation - I hope that this puzzle take you less time than me its creation :)

#1: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Nov 5, 2011

That made my brain hurt. :)
#2: Marena Sasena (sachama) on Nov 5, 2011
Sorry, I want try to create puzzle where one part helps to discover other part. This other part should be logical unsolvable without use the first part.
Did you proceeded this way ?
#3: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Nov 5, 2011 [HINT]
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#4: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Nov 5, 2011
i have no idea what is in the upper left corner (it looks like "R 16" and "R 17" for possibly rows 16/17?) but if so i dont know what that has to do with anything
but just to the right of the R 16/17, are those table graph-looking things? (something like this): http://www.jqueryplugins.com/plugins/chart-and-graph/

the font of the word "unlocked" was very poor (but made for a much better solve)
the lock was pretty cool
but the solve was fantastic
no guessing
i used extensive edge logic throughout
#5: Marena Sasena (sachama) on Nov 5, 2011 [HINT]
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#6: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Nov 5, 2011 [HINT] [SPOILER]
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#7: Jota (jota) on Nov 7, 2011
No guessing!
#8: Marena Sasena (sachama) on Nov 12, 2011
I here must repeat: "this puzzle is possible to solve logical without guessing".
This logical solving is possible for human only. Computer software cannot do it when we don't count AI :).
Yes this "solving" isn't ordinary but is logical without questing.
#9: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Nov 12, 2011 [HINT]
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#10: Marena Sasena (sachama) on Nov 14, 2011
Interesting, thanx. My original plan little bit failed :)
#11: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Nov 14, 2011 [SPOILER]
the idea was an interesting one. it reminds me of a puzzle someone else did (i don't remember the number or who did it). that one had two solutions, the whole puzzle solvable down to a box of four blanks and the blacks could go diagonally either direction except that the rest of the image included the word "BLACK" with arrows to the intended black ones and "WHITE" with an arrow. you're definitely thinking outside the box.
#12: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Nov 14, 2011 [SPOILER]
See puzzle # 10396 David.
#13: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Nov 15, 2011
That one looks familiar, Adam ;) Thanks.
#14: Marena Sasena (sachama) on Nov 18, 2011
Thanx for link
#15: Teresa K (fasstar) on Dec 8, 2011
Marena, I really enjoyed this puzzle. I saw the question mark, and since it was a larger puzzle, I wasn't sure I wanted to get stuck with a puzzle the required guessing. But I gave it a try anyway, just for the challenge. Well, I got through it, but wow, there was soooooo much edge logic involved. When I finally had a breakthrough, it finished nicely. And then I had to chuckle at the final image. Very clever idea.

I hope someone gets rid of the question mark so that others might be enticed to try this unique puzzle.
#16: Marena Sasena (sachama) on Jun 19, 2012
Teresa thanks for your heartwarming words
#17: Emily Davies (scaramoucheEm) on Nov 2, 2012 [HINT]
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#18: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Jan 26, 2014
solved by logic alone. nice
#19: Velma Warren (Shiro) on Apr 10, 2019
Great fun! No guessing.

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