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#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Apr 6, 2004

Most of the puzzle is easy, but the lower right corner is a bit tricky.

I found this one pretty hard. Twice I had to try some moves and reach a contradiction, then hit undo a bunch of times to get back.

pretty hard

The guessing in the lower right isn't too bad.

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This puzzle is definitely solvable without guessing. The key is the 5 on the bottom row and the bottom numbers of the 7th and 8th columns from the right. Since the 5 can't cross both of these columns (it would put a block of 2 in the 3rd row which only has 1s), the 5 has to be somewhere to the left. The rest of that corner should fall into place after that.

Belatedly coming back to this, I've decided that Robert was, as usual, right. Those two columns clearly cannot be be used by either the 5 or the 3 in the bottom row, forcing the five off to one side and the three off to the other. That leads to a solution of the whole rest of the puzzle.

It's definitely solvable, but it sure was tricky at the bottom right. Thanks Jan.

Robert was dead right about the bottom right corner. The middle 5 (from the bottom row) is easily placed to the left side of the 7th/8th colums from the right. Then it solves easily with edge logic on the 3 in the very bottom row.

Very fun puzzle.

I miss Robert :(

Sorry... apparently I am not as big of a fan. :-(

Didn't find it that difficult. Must have been having a good night.

Tricky litte puzzle to solve. Since both red and blue are available as colors, is there a reason you didn't do this in color? Was it to increase the difficulty?

I don't think blue was available on this site at the time I did this puzzle. But anyway, I like black and white better.

Ditto #14.

Too easy and much too insulting. Sorry, Jan, but you could use a little more tact.

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Wow.
:-O

Ditto, Claudia!

how stupid to put $ instead of stars.

Hey "linny," why do you have "no eyebrows?"
Did you: pluck them?
shave them?
wax them?
have laser hair removal?
Or did they fall out naturally (hypothyroidism, chemo, etc)?

Methinks I can guess lynn's political bent ...

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wow, that is some biting political commentary.

i hope you can infer my biting sarcasm.

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I agree with 25.

you'd think i would have tried the EL first, but no. after LL, whether C21R18 or C21R21 are black, C20R18 is black. Line logic from there.

no comment on the political debate.

Good puzzle, more accurate today then when it was first made!

Jan, you made my day today...even after all these years and from the other side of the sun.

Politics need not divide us, but spur us on to deeper understandings and achievements. We here on this site should be united by our love of freedom of speech and freedom of expression, barring racism and other behavior barred by our Constitution. We do not have to agree on all things. We are free to comment on social and political issues.

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Ditto #25

If Jan thought GWB was bad he wouldn't even believe what we've got now. Oh well.

RIP Jan. The rest of us have to wait awhile. At least we've got puzzles in the meantime.

tongue-in-cheek...I thought the $$$ were appropriate for the GOP!

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