Puzzle Description:

Oops, that should be "Decade". Jan published the first puzzles on this site 10 years ago today (March 24, 2004). Time to celebrate all the hours of fun! (PS - the stick figure in the centre of this puzzle is Puzzle #1, aka the demo puzzle from the home page).

#1: valerie o..travis (bigblue) on Mar 24, 2014

thank you heather and thank you jan and also thanks to all the wonderful puzzle maker here :)

Heather, how thoughtful of you to commemorate this event. Thanks to Jan and to the webpbn community for adding delight to my days. I am your grateful fan.

Wonderful sentiment Heather. Thank you Jan for enriching the quality of our lives,and Kathy it's nice to hear that you appreciate our efforts.:)

Thanks Travis, Kathy and Aldege. I think we all owe a big vote of thanks to Jan for creating this site and to the whole gang for hours of fun solves and interesting discussions. I know there has been some controversy over the years with various members and some of the comments, but on balance, I think this site has created a genuine community, which is always a good thing! Here's to the next 10 years!!!!

Awesome thanks!

wayyy to go Heather and nice solve :)

Thanks Jota and Tom.

Hear,hear Heather,at least another 10.:)

Amen Aldege!

This definitely does not require "much guessing"

As I did it the first time, I tried KRGB. The black and the top red can be done with line/color logic. Then edge logic on the 6 in c7 makes r15-20 white and the rest of the red solves with color logic.

But then I had to go to the blue. Edge logic on the blue in c1 places it completely and color logic places the left blue clues.

Then edge logic on the blue 2 in r20 places it and the right blue clues can be finished with color logic.

Then a little more interesting edgy-logic for the green.

Note at the bottom the clues are alternating 1s and 2s. Imagine how that would look if a long clue were to go down through a 1|2|1. No matter which way the 2 went - left or right - it would end up making a block of one in the column next to it.

There are no green 1 clues in any remaining columns. Therefore none of the vertical clues can go through a 1|2|1 (ie, the bottom three rows). The only clue that would not create a block of 1 in a row next to it when started in r20 would be the 2 in c20.

Then line logic to finish.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

Yahoo! We're 10 now!

Thanks for the clarification Joe. Always glad not to have the dreaded question mark! :)

Hurray! :)
do-do-re-do-fa-mi :)

what a splendid tribute. :)

Thanks Kristen.

Fantastic Heather and a wonderful tribute to Jan and his awesome website.

Thanks Susan!

I feel like a piker. Had a bit of a problem with the solve and my old freeze-at-least-once-every-ten-minutes computer struck while I was in the middle of it so just now getting back to it. What can I say that hasn't been said. I echo all the wonderful thoughts above and a heartfelt thanks to Jan.

A very enjoyable solve, amusing image and wonderful sentiment. I saw the 10/decade pun before the full solve but it never clicked what it might be fore.

We're coming on twenty years now. (Can I say "we" even if I showed up late?)

I like how the streamers seem to lend themselves to two-way logic. I used edge logic on the left/blue one, and red one's placement in row 7 followed, then the green one on the right, then the blue. While you could maybe look and guess, too, it's neat to have two solutions.

absolutely! I say "we", because I've been here long enough to feel like part of the community. :)

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