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#1: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Apr 5, 2014

How very cute!

I gave a small kitten, who loved to curl up in your lap, to a lady who wanted a lap kitty, but it was not to be. They had a huge dog and were concerned about how the kitten would react to it. But, not to worry. The kitten adopted the dog at first sniff and they became inseparable. But to keep peace in the family the kitten would crawl up in the lady's lap every now and then.

So,so cute Tonia,nice image.:)

ditto aldege :)

ditto Travis :)

nice puzz and fun solve!

absolutely no guessing required, people....

Very cute and how true!

sweet

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What a charming picture!

Loved the solve!

LL/CL leaves only black.

Some non-obvious line logic: in r7, the 3,1 at the right side makes r7c29 white. (It would be white whether the black pixel in c26 is part of the 3 or the 1.) Then LL

More non-obvious line logic: the unknown at c24r7 cannot be part of either the 3 or the 1 in r7, so it must be white. Then LL

Edge logic on the 5 in r1 makes c4-14, c16, c22, and c30 white.

Then LL finishes the right side.

Edge logic on the 3 in r11 makes c13-15 white.

Edge logic on the 2 in c12 makes r8 white.

Some summing:
-The left 3s in r10 & 11 must be within c1-5 due to the black pixels in c3. That means a total of six pixels must be within the rectangle of c1-5,r9-10.

-Now, summing all the black clues in c1-5 gives us six pixels for all of c1-5.

-That means that all of c1-5 outside of r9-10 must be white.


Then immediately edge logic on the 4 in c6 makes r2-4 white. Then LL


Edge logic on the 2 in r9 makes c8-9 white. Then LL to finish.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

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Alternate method:

I solved this the same way as Joe did up to (and including) this line:
"Edge logic on the 3 in r11 makes c13-15 white."

Next I looked at the 3 clue in R15. No matter which way I went, the 1 clues in C1-2 and C4-5 were going to be in either R14 or R15, eliminating R2-13 in these columns.

I then went immediately to edge logic in C5, which eliminates R2-4 in that column. More line logic.

Next I took a look at C14, and saw that if I placed the 2 clue in R14-15, it would cause a contradiction in C13, and eliminated those two squares.

I then repeated the exercise with the 2 clue in C13 (placing it in R14-15 causes a contradiction in C12).

Line logic to finish.

Cute but needed to guess at least 3 times.

Adorable image, but not a smooth solve. Gets much better toward the end

Such a cute image, but getting there is a challenge!

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