Puzzle Description:

A science experiment: split up a pair of wool socks; hand wash; hang one on the line, put one in the dryer on high heat. Let them dry. Conclusions?

#1: Glenn Crider (playamonkey) on Mar 7, 2021

You will still end up losing one.

Clever and true.

Yep, you will loose one for sure, but what will really bake your noddle is which one will you loose?

Is the image portraying that, should one somehow magically avoid the inevitable loss of either sock, one would find that one sock shrinks while the other does not?

The one from the dryer will make immediately your foot nice and toasty warm, while the one on the line will take some time for your foot to warm it up.

Dryer shrinkage of a wool sock should stretch back out at least to foot size once you put on the sock.

Lol #1.

Dryers eat socks.

The one in the dryer uses a lot more electricity. But I should talk, I never hang anything on the line.

Socks should be sold individually to support science and to cover #1.

Found to require some guessing by dbouldin.

after color and line logic (and with C&LL between):

- 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.

I like Dave Barry's theory that clothes dryers magically transmute some of the socks into coat hangers in the closets.

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.
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!

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.

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.

Thanks David and Gator for spending time on the solvability of this one.

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