Comments on Puzzle #25278: Plates
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: line & color logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
Puzzle Description:
(This puzzle was recovered from the 2016 database crash. Puzzle creators, please edit this puzzle and put the real description here!)
#1: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on May 8, 2019 [SPOILER]
Stegosaurus#2: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 23, 2019
Found to have a unique solution by valerie.#3: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Dec 23, 2019
Found to be solvable by line and color logic alone by valerie.#4: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Dec 26, 2019 [SPOILER]
And the bit on his tail is called the Thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.#5: Bill Eisenmann (Bullet) on Jan 13, 2022
Which paleontologists actually named the thagomizer, because those bones didn't have a name yet!
Ha ha Kristen - Far Side, right?#6: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 13, 2022
quite so!#7: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Jan 14, 2022 [SPOILER]
I looked it up. Wikipedia says:"A thagomizer is the distinctive arrangement of four spikes on the tails of stegosaurine dinosaurs. These spikes are believed to have been a defensive measure against predators.The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name "thagomizer" in 1982 as a joke in his comic strip Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
Neat!
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