Puzzle Description:

(This puzzle was recovered from the 2016 database crash. Puzzle creators, please edit this puzzle and put the real description here!)

#1: Jota (jota) on Jun 9, 2019

I have marked this entry as requiring look ahead, but it will be unfair not to award a prize if this is not the case. Please help!

Found to have a unique solution by valerie.

i solved with only LL. whether they are necessary or not (pretty sure the second one at least isn't needed), here are the two trickiest moves i made:

- whether the blacks in C5-6R4 are part of the 2 or 3 clue, C3R4 is a dot either way

- (much later) whether the blacks in C15R8-10 are the 3 or the blot, C15R7 is a dot

Solved with line logic and blot logic.

First bit of blot logic R10 has 2 groups of 3 at C16-18 and C23-25 the left group must be part of the 6 so the right group must be part of the blot. This makes R10 C26-28 black and allows you to fill in the 6 and 2 clues for that row.

More line logic then I came to a point there were 4 groups in R4 but only 3 clues, so the rightmost groups must be part of the same blot. This filled in R4 C27-32 as black.

more line logic then in R2 there are 3 groups and 2 clues, the right 2 groups must be part of the same blot. Filled in R2 C19-22 as black.

Line Logic to finish.

It's still marked as ?

there you go! fixed it ;)

Thanks David but I still see the ?

ah...didn't look at it on the list, just the solvability switched from guessing to moderate, but i guess it can still be in question. which makes sense since an admin hasn't determined it yet. i thought the votes could tip it. i'm not very knowledgeable on the inner workings :P

Puppy moving in or out?

Since there's already a dog house in the pic, and "from" a house, to a box, he was born in the doghouse and now moving to someone else's house ...?
OR, he's just moved from the house he was born in, and the thoughtful adopters already have his new doghouse!

Or, Mom just threw out the jack-in-the-box ...

Found to be solvable by line logic alone by valerie.

Solving that felt very intricately planned. You had to find each step in order to get to the next step.

WCP #167 was called Moving Day, but that just leaves me with the same guesses that Bill suggested.

Travis, are you there? We'd be glad of a clue toward what this puzzle is.

Looks as if someone caught a critter (racoon? mouse?) in their house, and they're going to let it go in the woods.

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