Japanese crossword «Orchid Phalaenopsis»

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impossible to solve without cheating. dissapointing result.

That's right. There is no way to solve it.

No solution found.

That's odd, I found a solution, although it was tedious. Maybe I made a fortunate mistake.

Difficult to solve, poor pic

Not a great picture, but it's possible without using the hints...

I agree that it got to a stage where I couldn't work out a single move and I had to use hints for the first time ever!

Found a solution without cheating, but very difficult.

Managed to solve without hints

No hints used but I think this is the most time I've ever spent on any of these puzzles.

This was very hard to solve indeed. I got to the point where the bottom half was solved, but no logical solution to the top.

You can do this without hints if you take the time and put the work in. It took me 45 minutes, but I got it without using hints. And, this wasn't even a really hard one. I've spent hours doing 1 puzzle before. You can tell how difficult a puzzle is before you do it. So if it's too hard for you, better to wait to do it until you've improved your skills. Really no point in complaining that a puzzle is unsolvable, when it clearly is. The picture was fine; use the thumbnails to view pics after you've finished them. You can see the puzzle results better that way.

Logical solution without hints exists, but it is very tricky

I wasn't able to crack the latter half of it without a hint, but I don't think that was the puzzle's failing! :)

Truly difficult, but it's possible to solvie this puzzle without using hints or guessing.
Took me 31 minutes.

If you find it very hard, there may be methods for solving you have not mastered yet. For instance: "could this specific pixel belong to a group, or must it be a single?"

I love the picture. Very good for its size.

Huh? I found this one very easy...not sure where the difficulty lies. Took me 9 minutes, 2 seconds. (???)

I found the key to this puzzle is dividing it vertically after the bottom half is finished by excluding blocks on either side of the "5" in the tenth column. It all comes down to how many of the clues can fit on either side of the column of X's. Worked for me, at least. Good luck!

This is the first puzzle I have awarded 5* for beauty. Took me 34 minutes. Absolutely gorgeous image. Very hard.

I don't really understand all the talk about the difficulty. This was no more difficult than any other puzzle marked 7, and easily solvable without hints or guessing. Took me 20 minutes.

Very nice - thank you :))

Great puzzle!
Easily solveable without guesses or hints.

Great!

This one took me so long and i was forced to hint could not figure out without guessing above row 14

really not difficult. Perhaps aim for 3 star and lower if you think this is so challenging

Surprised with the comments.. Surely possible without hints or guessing.. Not that difficult.

also a bit surprised. Not easy, but not very difficult either. Took me 20 mins.

0:18:43 ... It wasn't hardest puzzle by far, pretty doable, nice image.
3,5 difficulty deserved, but no more.

nice and difficult it took me 2 hours with no hints or guess

Ufff, fantastic brain teaser

In theory every puzzle here can be solved using logic. Like chess it all depends on how many moves you're able to calculate ahead.

It is solvable by logic alone. No hints or guesses required. No need to calculate ahead, either. Just take it slow and keep checking the rows forwards AND backwards. That was the key for me.

I enjoyed it very much, thanks Tverianka.

Very intricate & lovely puzzle. I did it in just under 23 minutes and felt pretty good about that until I saw the "average" time of 14 minutes. Reading the comments made me feel better again. ;)

a lovely original image

Very simple, 10 mn. Beautiful picture, thank's

At the start I thought I was going to whiz through this puzzle. I then ran into the brick wall about 10 minutes in. At one point I made the decision to start putting X's in, then realized there was something I could figure out without the X's, then undid until all the X's were removed, then managed to finish the rest of the puzzle without placing another X.