Puzzle Description:

I asked a friend of mine what I should draw for my next puzzle. She "requested" this scene. I think she needs a vacation. MANY, MANY iterations for solvability later...here you go...

#1: Minnie Fuerstnau (m.fuerstnau) on May 11, 2010 [SPOILER]

A really appropriate image as we are having rain again. (Thankfully, no flooding or tornadoes.) Makes me want to go there.

I needed to do a lot of counting on the water ripples to get jump-started a couple of times. But nice puzzle overall. Thanks.

What a lovely image. It took a lot of counting. I think I could use a vacation, after all that work! :-)

Lovely image. Thank you for taking the time and effort to produce it.

Finally!

Great image, love these big challenging puzzles!

thank you all :) :P

Ditto Leah’s comment. I love the big challenging puzzles. Nice job with the shadow. Great image as well.

Thanks

glad you liked it...this was a PAIN to check and make solvable. later, when i learned about the "Helper" button in the puzzle-creating menu i immediately thought back to this puzzle and facepalmed

thanks. a lot of good staff.

Beautiful! Very tricky! Nothing like sailing into the sunset...

Quite, quite lovely. Very, very tough solve. No guessing exactly, but some serious "look aheads".

Responding to comment #8: David, the "Helper" button wasn't always there. I am not sure what year Jan added it, but it's very possible that this puzzle is older than the button. So no facepalm needed.

Hm. I searched the forum and found a mention of the helper in 2008, so I guess it was already there in 2010 when you made this puzzle. But you may well have been using the site longer than the button has been there.

I guess I can just assume that test solving this over and over helped me with my solving skills in general :P

Silver lining!

I usually shy away from puzzles with so many consecutive 1s (too much counting for my taste), but I'm glad I pushed through on this one because it's such a nice image!

This has been sitting in my partly solved puzzles for who knows how long. Tough solve, but *so* worth it. It's gorgeous in B&W. All these years later, thank you David.

Thanks Lollipop! :D

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