Puzzle Description:

I am watching our home canners for 90 minutes as my wife's turkey soup is processed. Just thought I would share. It is a pressure cooker with handles on a gas flame. It has a pressure meter and a pressure weight on the top.

#1: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Feb 20, 2019

once again, a simple puzz that is easy to "see" what you're going for and solves easily enough with an educated guess...but I'm not seeing how you can logically get there. I'll hold off on marking it as "guessing" cuz I mighta missed something, but I got several adv moves and I'm stuck none-the-less.

I like the image,especially the blue flames.

A pressure wight? Like, a ghost that can drain your life force? ;)

I remember my mom using one of these. I've only canned fruit, which doesn't require pressure cooking. And then it's more trouble than it's worth.

Oh, I thought I had a logical solve, but now I think I made a mistake along the way.

I do a lot of canning with pressure cookers. Both with guages and weights. I love to hear when other people do it. We do so much preserving that we are just about self-sufficient. We have to buy stuff like salt, baking powder, etc. Enjoyed the puzzle.....thanks!

This is a really interesting puzzle. It's not quite symmetrical, which makes it kind of wicked.

I think I may've needed deep lookahead to solve it. But that doesn't mean deep lookahead is required.

1. At some points, the browser hints run out, though you can mark some 1's. I had to work on the 12 at the bottom (C16 gives a contradiction after sleuthing,) and I finished things using the 4 at the top.

It looks like there could be a counting argument, though. I'd be interested in stuff less brute-force, for sure.

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