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#1: Gator (Gator) on Aug 21, 2009 [HINT]

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Please explain how you logically solved this.

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Yep. I had never used this. How would anyone have known to even try that?

awesome logic, that was fun!

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that was extreme. very well done on that added web link.

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LOL #13

Found to be logically solvable by jan.

Oh, this is delightful! A nice demonstration of an uncommon logic technique, and it still comes out as a good image. I constructed a lot of demo puzzles for my advanced puzzle solving technique page, but none of them look like anything. It's really hard to do that, and I'm very impressed.

I've updated the advanced puzzle solving techniques page with a link to this puzzle, as a nice example of extended smile logic.

Gator: there are people who make these puzzles professionally. You are totally in their class.

I think he already does.

I knew it had to be solvable because it's Gator. Took me a while but I did it.

Excellent!

Ditto #14.

I think there are many people on this site and other sites that could do these puzzles on a professional basis.

Thanks all!

There are many excellent puzzles here, but I think you've crossed a line that relatively few designers ever cross. I can make a good looking puzzle, and work on it until it's solvable. But how hard it is, and what techniques it needs to solve, and how much fun it is to solve, that's mostly just something that falls out however it falls out.

To design an image that is simultaneously good looking and requires particular logical approaches to solving, or attains a particular level of difficulty, that takes puzzle design to a whole different level, that I never got to myself. Marz's later puzzles clearly did some of that, and aanet's puzzles may have (I don't know so much about his design process, but the consistency of his results argues for it).

A puzzle like this one doesn't happen by accident. It requires being able to integrate design of the grid as a picture with design of the grid as a puzzle in a really sophisticated way. I'm very impressed.

I don't know how long it would have taken me to figure out the process without hints, but now that I know about it, it was very fun to solve. :)

Ditto #11; but I'll admit the first time I tried this one I was truly "stumped"! I came back to it today and really noticed all the ones at the bottom. From that point it flowed quite smoothly!

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This one gets an easy 5 stars from me. Nice work. And I'm proud to say I didn't need to look at the FAQ to solve it. :)

Thanks Matt.

A real ah ha! moment in this one and then it solves nicely and at the end, one last stump moment. Gator, this plus your edge puzzle are my two favorites! I enjoy your puzzles!

Thanks Michael.

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Thanks Amanda!

amazing
great solve
i have been looking for puzzles with which to use this summing technique
thanks for a great puzzle
jans comments summed it up nicely (pun intended)
haha

Thanks bugaboo.

ditto # 18

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Great puzzle. Very clear image in a very small space. Thanks.

Ditto EVERYONE - this is a truly great puzzle.

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