Japanese crossword «Cossack»
| Size: 15x20 | Picture: | Difficulty: | Added: | 22.12.19 | Author: Yvan |
COMMENTS
This was really hard to start. Fantastic result!
replyI wasn't able to finish this without a guess. Great puzzle!
replyTook me a while to take off but finding that one X was the key. Nice!
replyVery good nonogram
it takes some time, but i did it without hint and guessing
Bravo!
replyit takes some time, but i did it without hint and guessing
Bravo!
Wow - very challenging! Well done! Took a long time to find that spot I could work from.
replyHad to use hints but this was a very fun puzzle
replyMan that was hard, took me 19 hours!Great puzzle, didn't need hints, just some fresh eyes to spot the clue.
replyDificult puzzle, took me 11 hours, used 1 hint. But I wonder about the statistics - average time 7 minutes???
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Yeah, I have the same issue with other riddles. It seems that even though the riddles get larger the average times do not increase the same way. I dont know, maybe people just use hints and then they finish a lot faster, but usually it takes me a while to spot that one thing that brings it together then.
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4-5 star puzzles take me from 20 to 30 minutes to solve. And yet I always find that the average doesn't go beyond 15, which is insane to me. The only reason I can think of is that most people are more lenient with the amount of hints they allow themselves to use.
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This one took me 15:06. The average is almost always way lower than my time.
I'm not great at working on a time limit and when I try to rush it makes things less fun; I'm more prone to freezing up or making casual mistakes.
I've just decided not to stress about what other people's times are and enjoy the puzzle at my own pace.
Sometimes I get distracted irl, wander off to another tab for a bit, or futz with my music, and I don't worry about that ruining my time because I'm not trying to beat anyone else, just solve the puzzle for my own enjoyment.
Some people enjoy making it a race and finishing as fast as possible, so they likely bring down the average, and aside from hints there are settings that can make it easier like automatically crossing out completed columns and rows.
I saw a comment once that said they turned on auto check for mistakes and just filled out the whole puzzle then deleted the ones marked wrong, and I don't understand the point of that? Isn't solving it the fun part?
replyI'm not great at working on a time limit and when I try to rush it makes things less fun; I'm more prone to freezing up or making casual mistakes.
I've just decided not to stress about what other people's times are and enjoy the puzzle at my own pace.
Sometimes I get distracted irl, wander off to another tab for a bit, or futz with my music, and I don't worry about that ruining my time because I'm not trying to beat anyone else, just solve the puzzle for my own enjoyment.
Some people enjoy making it a race and finishing as fast as possible, so they likely bring down the average, and aside from hints there are settings that can make it easier like automatically crossing out completed columns and rows.
I saw a comment once that said they turned on auto check for mistakes and just filled out the whole puzzle then deleted the ones marked wrong, and I don't understand the point of that? Isn't solving it the fun part?
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If you close the puzzle unfinished (after saving) and then reopen it, the timer will start from 0 again. Depending on how much is left to do, you can complete it in a very short amount of time. And this last short time goes into the statistics and lowers the average.
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It is indeed very difficult for its size, I considered giving it 5* difficulty.
replyIt is indeed very difficult for its size, I considered giving it 5* difficulty.
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If you look for hint: there is an easy contraction in the middle columns.
Took a bit of figuring out, and then like an old jumper, one tug on an errant thread, and it all fell apart. Great experience.
replyspoiler
If you want a hint, when you are stuck:
The most important is the intersection of 2-1-1-3-2-1-2 column and 4-4-2 row, it has to be an X, because previous row is either the finish of 2 or 1, either way its an X. After this it's much easier :)
The most important is the intersection of 2-1-1-3-2-1-2 column and 4-4-2 row, it has to be an X, because previous row is either the finish of 2 or 1, either way its an X. After this it's much easier :)
The puzzle is fun but I have genuinely no idea what i'm looking at, even with the title
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For some reason I had a really hard time seeing the picture, I had to zoom out a bunch and see it at thumbnail size for me to finally realize that one part is a mustache, and after that I could finally see the face.
Very tough, took a while but I managed to complete it without hints
replyIt was doable without hints, though the start was tricky. Also, great pic. I saw the face when I was cca ¾ done.
replyhad to use all three hints, though I'm quite new to advanced nonograms.
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