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Not much to go on (Wednesday, 28th February 2007)
Fgnn
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 717
Best Total: 19m 46s
Posted - 2007.02.28 00:14:53
Man this one was tough. Basically nothing except a few patterns to go off of.  I cant remember ever having taken ten minutes for a daily puzzle.  Did anyone see anything that you think others probably missed? Or was is this just a strategic guess type puzzle?
Tilps
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 6720
Best Total: 18m 37s
Posted - 2007.02.28 00:24:26
this puzzle was evil - I made a guess - made some progress by doing some nasty nested guesses in my head (which I am not good at) and eventually just Assumed that I was right since I had made it half way.  I think this is the first time where I have decided to assume and continue, with the justification that I had so little progress made before the assumption started that if I had to completely reset, it would only take a couple of seconds to get where I was upto beforehand.
Even then I had to make another guess to finish it off.
Brian
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 4907
Best Total: 9m 6s
Posted - 2007.02.28 01:11:53
It was a lot of guessing for me.

Edit: My solution (which I've removed) was flawed. Let me try to fix it.
Last edited by Brian - 2007.02.28 01:41:32
m2e
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 607
Best Total: 16m 43s
Posted - 2007.02.28 03:10:36
Ouch that was tough. Just had to keep trying different fix positions till I got it It's a sure way to get a bad score!
Last edited by m2e - 2007.02.28 03:10:50
sam
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 2250
Best Total: 24m 39s
Posted - 2007.02.28 08:54:43
Christ... I think it's just Foilman making sure no one gets a good wednesday time.
foilman
Kwon-Tom Admin
Puzzles: 3613
Best Total: 24m 6s
Posted - 2007.02.28 09:01:06
Hehe... as if I'd do that...

Anyway, I found it very tricky too... but at least the 'wrong' wasn't too bad!
astrokath
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 3258
Best Total: 13m 42s
Posted - 2007.02.28 09:05:01
Definitely a strategic guess puzzle.

This one, I got a good time on by just letting my subconscious do the hard work.  It can often see the solution without relying on any logical patterns.  Woman's intuition, if you will. 
Jankonyex
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 5680
Best Total: 9m 35s
Posted - 2007.02.28 12:52:27
My solution's here
Start with a pattern
Nis
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 2208
Best Total: 22m 1s
Posted - 2007.02.28 22:21:32
Indeed one of the toughest daily puzzles ever. How this rated as only "hard" I would like to understand.

On top, I had a network outage, and spent about 5 minutes fixing this after having finished the puzzle in about 7-8 minutes. Ouch. I guess there is no hope of convincing the Powers that Be to correct my score - especially since i don't know exactly how long I took.
astrokath
Kwon-Tom Obsessive
Puzzles: 3258
Best Total: 13m 42s
Posted - 2007.03.02 09:09:30
This Friday's puzzle is another good one for exercising your intuition.
Last edited by astrokath - 2007.03.02 09:09:41

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