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quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Glenn Crider (playamonkey) on Mar 7, 2021
You will still end up losing one.#2: gregg licht (lgreg) on Mar 7, 2021
Clever and true.#3: Mat (Keiimaster) on Mar 7, 2021
Yep, you will loose one for sure, but what will really bake your noddle is which one will you loose?#4: Yonah Kondor (yokon965) on Mar 8, 2021 [SPOILER]
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Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#6: Joanne Firla (JoFirla) on Mar 8, 2021
Lol #1.#7: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Mar 8, 2021 [SPOILER]
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The one in the dryer uses a lot more electricity. But I should talk, I never hang anything on the line.#9: gregg licht (lgreg) on Mar 9, 2021 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#10: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Mar 9, 2021
Found to require some guessing by dbouldin.#11: David Bouldin (dbouldin) on Mar 9, 2021 [HINT]
after color and line logic (and with C&LL between):#12: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Mar 9, 2021 [SPOILER]
- EL dots C10R1
- IEL: the 3's in R2 and R3 can't start in C11 because the 1-2-1 would form a 1 in the row above or below but there are n 1 clues to correspond, so both (C11R2-3) are dots.
and that solves all blue and black leaving all of the green. at this point I don't see an actual logic move to move forward. it's pretty obvious to guess that it's going to zigzag but I can start in either corner, throw an L shape in the corner and then continue with a chain of squares all the way to the other corner before there's a conflict. i think 20ish moves ahead counts as guessing even if you can keep it in your head. joe/gator/valerie/etc can correct me if i'm wrong.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#13: gregg licht (lgreg) on Mar 9, 2021 [HINT]
Seems like a path to continue with green in lower left: R17C1 can be eliminated because it would require 2x2 green that leads to contradiction with moderate look ahead. That leaves R18-R20 for two green and starts off the diagonal.#14: Koreen (mom24plus) on Mar 10, 2021
But your point is taken...I'll iterate some more if I run into longer look-aheads before I release a puzzle.
#12 Aha! That explains so much!#15: Gator (gator) on Mar 15, 2021 [HINT]
You can also make R20C2 a dot because no matter how you fill in C1, it is always a dot. With the R17C1 being a dot as demonstrated by gregg, the rest will solve with LL.#16: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Mar 15, 2021
David - I believe after the dot at R1C10 is placed, the rest of the black can be done with color logic.
Nice puzzle!
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by gator.#17: gregg licht (lgreg) on Mar 16, 2021
Thanks David and Gator for spending time on the solvability of this one.
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