Puzzle Description:

...Dia de los ñatitas

#1: Donna McFarland (jade8114) on Nov 6, 2016 [SPOILER]

"Day of the Skulls" is a festival celebrated in La Paz, Bolivia, on May 5. In pre-Columbian times indigenous Andeans had a tradition of sharing a day with the bones of their ancestors on the third year after burial. Today families keep only the skulls for such rituals. Traditionally, the skulls of family members are kept at home to watch over the family and protect them during the year. On November 9, the family crowns the skulls with fresh flowers, sometimes also dressing them in various garments, and making offerings of cigarettes, coca leaves, alcohol, and various other items in thanks for the year's protection. The skulls are also sometimes taken to the central cemetery in La Paz for a special Mass and blessing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead#Bolivia

Good solve. Well timed.

^indeed.

Cool image Donna. :)

Awesome

Great solve! Had to work at it which is what I love! Thanks!!

I am really stuck. LL & CL got me to 83%. Then I found what I thought was a clever bit of logic that only one of the 4's in C7 & C8, and only one of the 4's in C12 & C13 can extend into R25. That plus a little IEL in R19 got me all the way to 84%! I finally gave up and decided to assume symmetry as the remaining clues strongly imply, even though I know that is considered guessing. And that still gets me only to 89%. I just can't see what I'm missing.

I had to resort to picture logic, which I suppose could be construed as zigzag logic or something, but the lowest black 1 in C3 and in C17 have to go in R23, to complete the outline.

Thank you Kristen. Those two cells allowed the rest to then be solved with LL. Although I'm not certain that would have sufficed had I not already solved what i could with symmetry - assuming a unique solution.

I rated this as needing guessing. I don't think picture logic counts as logic, and I know the preponderance of opinion on this site is that symmetry does not count as logic unless the author tells you there is a unique solution.

yeah. I knew it was a cop-out when I did it. :)

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