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quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
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#1: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 6, 2010 [HINT]
You thought this would be easy... until it wasn't.#2: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Mar 6, 2010 [SPOILER]
Near the end, there is an "H" shaped section unsolved from c25r11 to c30r18 with two black squares in the center.
Take the 4 in column 26. If it was to reach down into row 18, then the 4 in column 25 would have to extend from r14-17. That creates a conflict with the 4 in row 14, thus r18c26 is white. Which makes c26r14 black, and r14c30 white.
Now take the 3 in column 30. There are two regions in which it can go. Let's try the upper one.
If the 3s in columns 29-30 are in rows 11-13, then the rest of those rows and columns would be white. That would force the 4 in row 14 to extend to column 25. Now, both 4s in c14&15 must go from r14-r17. However that leaves nowhere for the 1 in row 18.
Therefore c30r16-18 are white.
Now it's back to easy-peasy.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#3: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Mar 6, 2010 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#4: Tonia Bergh (tonia) on Mar 7, 2010
Awesome image, Joe...I didn't know what it was until the very end. Hope the picnic was fun!#5: Petra Lassen (Stjarna) on Mar 7, 2010
Lovely puzzle, and an excellent challenge at the end!#6: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Mar 7, 2010
Can't see the image. Looks like abstract. Not fun.#7: Jane Doe (telly) on Mar 7, 2010
it took a minute for the image to "pop" after solving. I can see it now. (BlackCat, look at monkeyboy's description, it helps and step way back.)#8: faeriefoundling (faeriefoundling) on Mar 9, 2010 [HINT]
Nice one.
And here I thought it was going to be ants! Nice puzzle, and i used some logical guessing at the end.#9: Jota (jota) on Mar 12, 2010
Nice!#10: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Mar 15, 2010
Found to be logically solvable by Gator.#11: Gator (Gator) on Mar 15, 2010 [HINT]
I used two-way logic on the 2 clue in row 16. Since it has to either go in columns 25-26 or 29-30 and the resulting black would satisfy row 18, we know that R18C27 and R18C28 are both dots.
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