Puzzle Description:

Scorpion

#1: Jota (jota) on Jul 12, 2009

Goood!

Amazing image. I gave it a 5 (as you can tell). Fun to solve. Edge logic on the 4s at the bottom helped solve it.

icky! Not as difficult as most of yours.

@Jota - Thanks.

@Adam - Thanks. The edge logic is not required, but it is pretty obvious to use in this case.

@elf - I made sure this one did not required advanced techniques. Hopefully, it's still more difficult than the average 15x15 though. :)

A wonderful puzzle. I gave it the same rating Adam did.

Excellent. This is one of the funnest puzzles I've solved on webpbn yet. Thanks!

Wooo hoo! A puzzle of Gator's that I was able to solve straight through (on the second try) and without using edge logic.

Oh, excellent image, btw.

Everything I want in a small puzzle! A great image and a fun challenge to solve. Wait, did I say "fun"? I meant "annoying PITA." This puzzle kicked my butt and I had to restart TWICE. But it was annoying in a good way, plus in the end I did it w/o edge logic. Thanks! Rated 5 for quality. Can't get any better in a 15x15.

fun and great!

Wow! That was fun. Great image, Gator.

I've seen quite a few of these here in Arizona - in my house. I even found one in my bed! Fortunately, the ones that are common here are not poisonous, but the sting is very painful.

"annoying PITA" - my favorite kind of puzzles. :)

Thanks all!

@Teresa - well, I must say, I'm glad I don't live in Arizona. How do you sleep at night?

Gator, I have never been stung, and have not seen any in a long time, so I don't think about them much any more. Now I have a question for you: How long did it take you to creat this puzzle? And will you make us some more please? Oops, that was two questions. :-)

Well, if you want to do more Gator puzzles, you could check out http://wiipicross.com . I believe he has about 310 puzzles posted there, and I suspect that that is part of the reason that he prefers B&W puzzles no bigger than 20x20 - he can use those on both sites. (Which, if anyone is wondering, is 200% fine with me - the puzzles you post here belong to you, you can use them as you like and the more use you make of them, the better - I've even posted a couple of my puzzles there.)

However, I don't know of any way on that site to get a list of just Gator puzzles.

How long? About an hour I would say. This site enables me to quickly come up with a unique solution puzzle (so I'm not wasting time on multiple solution puzzles), but refining a puzzle to playable form takes a bit longer.

I plan on creating more. They will usually come in spurts as does my free time. :)

A lot of the puzzles I have posted here are either exact copies of ones I've done on wiipicross.com or they are tweaked a little bit. You can get to a list of puzzles by clicking on a member name almost anywhere on the site.

http://www.heroglyphix.com/memberprofile.php?id=156

Note that 118 of those puzzles are for the periodic table of elements though (one for each element).

http://www.heroglyphix.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=296

I'm almost ready to take the leap to larger than 20x20. I've solved a few here, but it seems like a huge time commitment to get large puzzles in solvable form.

Actually, Gator, it doesn't take that long. I have created a lot of puzzles on here, most of them averaging 40 x 40 or so. After I had created a lot of puzzles, I realized that many of the first ones were not logically solvable (although they had unique solutions, and looked amazing). Once I had been on this site long enough to understand how puzzles work, what makes a good puzzle, and how to make them logically solvable, I have only posted logically solvable puzzles since. I just keep adding a few black pixels here and there until I get a logically solvable solution, and then keep taking away as many as possible (1 or 2 at a time) and checking solvability until it reverts back to not solvable. Then I add the last one or two pixels, and post it. I can usually do larger puzzles in an hour or so, occasionally longer.

Thanks, Jan. I visited that site last time you suggested it, and even created some puzzles.

Gator, I see you are rated #1 there for points. Yeah!!!

Ugh, that site is now http://www.heroglyphix.com/ and it's hard on the eyes!

Great image.

I also visited that site. I solved a few puzzles, but don't know how you get points. Are the puzzles there numbered? How do you see what puzzles you have solved? The site seemed very confusing. I couldn't figure out if there was a way to set each mouse button to a function, instead of having to double click in oder to mark a square as blank. It just doesn't compare to this site.

There is a page that lists puzzles that you have solved and puzzles you haven't. I tend to use the random puzzle thing a lot where I go there. The solving environment doesn't have the flexibility of controls that we have here, but the puzzles are small and monochrome, so who really needs them?

I know they are planning a major revision of the site soon.

I've never figured out whether it is OK to talk about competing sites in their forums, so though I have participated there some, I have never mentioned webpbn there, which feels kind of odd to me. But overall, I like that site a lot more than most of the other competing puzzle sites I've tried. I don't even know why exactly.

Loved it! Thanks Gator!

Thanks all.

another very nice gator puzzle

Absolutely marvelous Gator! Awsome puzzle :)

Thanks!

Great!

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