Puzzle Description:

A wristwatch showing 4:30. This is a reference to the Monkees' song "Last Train to Clarksville."

#1: Douglas Wardell (tanis0) on Oct 23, 2009

This is my first puzzle. I hope you like it. By the way, it's line-solvable.

The hands look like an eighth note.

Thanks for your entry Douglas, good job!

Nice job, especially for a first puzzle. It looks good, and it is quite interesting to solve. I'm really surprised that you were able to get it to be line solvable with all those little dots.

Thanks Jota and Jan. :) It took some fiddling to get a unique solution and still keep the detail I wanted, but I like how it came out. Mostly, I just had to avoid either-or situations at the top and bottom and the rest took care of itself.

Ditto #4. It turned out really well.

Very nice image. Good puzzle.

Nice puzzle, Douglas. I also am impressed with how you got the little dots to be line solvable. Small B&W puzzles are a bit hit around here. I hope you do more.

The song was the Monkees' first big hit, way back in 1966. I was in love with my high school sweetheart, so the hits at that time really stuck with me. Some puzzles may have no idea what song this is. Others might like to take a trip down memory lane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScXXaBu1Ing

Random factoid: Once upon a time a secretary hit upon the idea of fixing typos by painting over them with white paint. She developed the idea, founding a company called "Liquid Paper". The company started out with her and her son filling little perfume bottles with white paint and sticking labels on them at the kitchen table, but she eventually grew it into a multimillion dollar corporation. Her son's name was Michael Nesmith, and even after he became a member of "The Monkees" he still earned a few cents off every bottle of Liquid Paper sold.

Ditto #6. Welcome to the ranks of the few makers of small, fun, B/W puzzles.

I like the random factoid Jan.
Nice job. great puzzle, fun to solve. Love the band. :)

great puzzle, Douglas

great first puzzle. great design. knew from the title what it would be.

great job for any puzzle be it your first or your 500th

Luckily for me, MTV aired episodes of The Monkees back in the 90s, so I had a chance to fall in love with Davy ( and those other guys).

I really liked the solve and am also surprised so many single dots are line-solvable (or any-solvable for that matter).

I was born a year after this song, and I had much older sisters who listened to this music, so I heard it in infancy. The song started playing in my head as soon as I read the title.

I am probably going to raise some people's blood pressure when I admit that - for the most part - I remember Monkees songs as Beatles songs.

My train was at midnight and was going to Georgia.

it stops in raliegh @ 2am :D

You were young, Joe. I'll forgive you. :)

Shouldn't 4:30 am be the first train to Clarksville?

Don't question the Dolenz.

Sorry Micky.

4:30 - 'Cause we made a reservation...don't be slow

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