Puzzle 49: Smullyanic Dynasty

[zotmeister]

See Puzzle 4 for instructions. This one took me less than five minutes to make the graphic for, and over two hours to test solve and repair! It originally lacked the center given, which I put there when I realized the original solution was not unique. Thankfully, that didn't sequence-break the puzzle at all.

One peculiar "feature" of this puzzle is that it has a particular weakness to metalogic, the use of which I of course discourage, but I must admit that this puzzle makes for an interesting study because of it. I challenge you to NOT use advance knowledge of a unique solution (metalogic) as a solving aid; once you've solved the puzzle, try to find the metalogic shortcut (if you hadn't already). - ZM

Comments

[zotmeister]

Any puzzle that does not have a unique solution cannot be solved purely deductively - eventually there must come a point in solving such a puzzle where no further deduction is possible (and a guess therefore required) since any remaining choices can each lead to a "solution". For my own creations, I find that unacceptable.

I'm pretty sure that there's a plug-in for Firefox that fixes truncated title tags; it gets mentioned in xkcd comments a lot. - ZM

[dioderm.livejournal.com]

I discovered if I select the text and left-click on it, the context menu lets me choose "View Selection Source", which just shows me the page source of the selected text, allowing me to get at it much faster than installing a plugin.

With xkcd, I just read the comments, someone whines and moans, another provides the text that got cut off. Perhaps I should just install the plugin and not be quite so lazy.

[(Anonymous)]

Alternatively, you can right-click the link and select properties, which will pop-up a resizable window containing the tooltip.