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solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Kristen Vognild (Kristen) on May 31, 2013 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#2: karl (keicher) on Jun 1, 2013
this didnt require any advanced logic...it was pretty easy.#3: Jota (jota) on Jun 1, 2013
Awesome solve! Thanks!#4: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Jun 2, 2013
thanks, Jota :)#5: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on Jun 3, 2013
nice solve and image kurt :)#6: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 14, 2013
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by gator.#7: Gator (gator) on Jun 14, 2013 [HINT]
After the initial line/color logic, I used edge logic with the 5 clue in row 4 on the right. It cannot go in columns 26-30 without making row 5 invalid. So R4C26-R4C30 are dots. Continuing the edge logic with the 5 clue in row 4, you can also make R4C11-12 and R4C20-23 dots. Line logic.#8: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Jun 14, 2013
Edge logic with the 6 clue in column 30 makes R6C30-R8C30 dots. Lots of line logic.
Edge logic with the 4 clue in row 25 makes R25C1-2 dots.
Next consider the 2 4 clues in column 1. If we try to place the 4 clue starting at R1C13 or R1C12, then column 2 would be invalid. There is only one combination left if the 4 clue is to go in the upper part of column 1 (2 clue at R5C1-R6C1 and 4 clue at R8C1-R11C1). Looking two moves ahead, this will make column 2 invalid as it produces three 2 clues in a series. This tells us that the 4 clue must go into the lower part of column 1 (and hence R18C1 is black).
If the 4 clue in column 1 extends down to row 20, column 2 will be invalid so it must go up making R16C1 black. Line logic to finish.
Very fun puzzle!
thanks Gator!#9: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jul 6, 2013
great solve & pic#10: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Jul 6, 2013
thanks Tom! :)#11: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Jul 21, 2018
Pretty#12: Cricket (tinaw4227) on Feb 4, 2020
It looks to me like it is up side down.#13: CB Paul (cbpaul) on Jan 24, 2022
Looks good to me, too! I can see it either as is or reversed.#14: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on Feb 6, 2022
solved. reverted once.
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