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State	Type	Title	Size	Played	Avg time	Rating (#users)	Yours	Your best	Published	Expires
		Nurikabe 19	12x12	139	5:28	Easy (105)	Subscribers only		28th Jul	-
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Posted 28th Jul 2012 at 11:07

Rachel Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Easy Completion time: 3:44

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Still having to guess most of these puzzles, can't work out a logical way to complete them. Any hints welcome.

Posted 28th Jul 2012 at 15:22

knubster Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Hard Completion time: 6:10

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Rachel, I'm with you on these. I start with adding the easy black squares then end up staring at them for a while and then make a guess. With this one, though, I noticed that the only way to get one of the four squares in the bottom right hand corner to be white was with the 18. I worked from there and, although it took a while, I used logic the rest of the way to complete. With the fast times others achieve on these, I feel like I'm missing some very obvious logic.

Posted 30th Jul 2012 at 00:07

gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Easy Completion time: 1:16

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Here's a solution video I just recorded - it should play in the browser on Chrome, Safari and maybe some other browsers.

Gareth

Posted 30th Jul 2012 at 00:08

gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Easy Completion time: 1:16

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Oh, and it should work on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc

Posted 30th Jul 2012 at 00:10

gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Easy Completion time: 1:16

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Please let me know if this was useful to you - if no one says it was then I won't ever bother again. :)

Posted 30th Jul 2012 at 03:49

joshuazucker Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Easy Completion time: 1:32

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That was nice! It was gratifying to see how similar it was to my solution path. It would be great if you could add a little voice-over ... or make the site record things like this for everyone's solves so we can watch how people do it! I'm sure those features would be a *lot* harder to implement though.

Posted 30th Jul 2012 at 15:39

gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Easy Completion time: 1:16

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I thought about a commentary but I'd have to get set up to do that - I don't have a mic plugged into my computer I use for puzzlemix for a start. Glad it was useful though - that path is the path I used when I made the puzzle, so that's definitely my intended solution method. :)

Posted 31st Jul 2012 at 12:49

kocos Rated puzzle: Easy Completion time: 4:47

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Finally finished one with pure logic.

Posted 1st Aug 2012 at 14:49

knubster Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Hard Completion time: 6:10

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Thanks Gareth, that helped. Not sure why, but I think I'm slow with the "all shaded areas must be connected" rule. Perhaps the shaded areas in my brain are unconnected. I need more practice - give us some more please!

Posted 2nd Aug 2012 at 09:41

Rachel Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: Easy Completion time: 3:44

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Indeed thanks Gareth, that video helped massively - I think I now get the bit that I was missing, will go back and try all the others.

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