Comments on Puzzle #5734: Bloodsucker
By Gator (gator)
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quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
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#1: Georgia Wren (teachno11) on Apr 29, 2009
Yep, they're out!#2: Jota (jota) on Apr 29, 2009 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#3: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Apr 29, 2009
It was a little predictable, and yet it is a really cute image.#4: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Apr 29, 2009
Ditto #2. Having said that, still a prety good image.#5: Ga Hendrick (GaHendrick) on Apr 29, 2009
I am not sure I could have solved it if the image wasn't symmetrical. Are there ever puzzles that "look" symmetrical from the numbers but aren't? I did think the image was very good.#6: Jan Wolter (jan) on Apr 29, 2009
A nice image and interesting and challenging to solve.#7: Gator (Gator) on Apr 29, 2009
You don't need to use symmetry to solve this puzzle. It can be done 100% by traditional line solving. Of course, if you use symmetry, it becomes much easier.
If a puzzle has only one solution, and the clues are symmetric, then the puzzle will be symmetric in the same way that clues are. I don't normally consider this to be "logical solving" though. If you were just handed this puzzle printed on paper, you'd have no way of knowing that it had a unique solution, so trying to use symmetry to solve it would be somewhat bogus.
It's a lot more fun (rewarding) to solve if you do not apply symmetry, but just use normal line logic. :)#8: Rea Aksglæde Karlsen (Rea) on Apr 30, 2009
i think its hard not to use the symmetry when its there.#9: aliza glatter (cisv247) on Apr 30, 2009 [SPOILER]
Love the picture really looks good.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#10: Teresa K (fasstar) on May 3, 2009
Thanks, gater, for a fun and challenging puzzle.#11: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on May 20, 2010
ouchie, its spring again 2010... nice puz, gator#12: Kylie :) (misty) on May 24, 2010
Awesome puzzle... a fun challenge, and about the hardest I can deal with this time of night :D#13: Gator (Gator) on May 24, 2010
I, too, solved it without symmetry, using only line logic. It was a fun solve and agreed, fantastic image.
Cheers mate :)
Thanks Tom and Kylie.#14: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Oct 14, 2010
nice image#15: Walter Lutes (ulutes) on May 10, 2011
Thanks gator. I find your puzzles challenging!#16: Gator (Gator) on May 10, 2011
I try to make them that way. :)#17: Debra Greene (dlegreen) on Jan 19, 2014 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#18: Bryan McQuary (irsponge) on Apr 29, 2014
Nice Debra, seeing how they are little syringes. The mosquito is the GA state bird and they are out and in force!#19: Brian Bellis (mootpoint) on Jun 20, 2016 [SPOILER]
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