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Answer
Solving
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@Jay already found the solution to this, but I wanted to expand a little more on why it's the only solution:
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Partial solution
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The solution is:
or, in text form:
Explanation (not the fastest way, I realized some improvements while writing it):
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For the sake of completeness, there are actually 3 possible solutions. Using process of elimination and deduction can get you to this point:
One solution is given by Sid already:
But two more are:
and:
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The completed dish
The reasons why
The ultimate message
Follow the directions
My answer
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First, we want to take a look at the snake itself.
Then, let's take a look at the grid, and see if there are some obvious features.
So, let's fill those in:
Then, because the snake has more white near the tail end, I thought it would be a good idea to go from the 93 to the top side as soon as possible; the grid seems to have more white along the right and ...
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Here's the solution: I will provide the explanations within the next 24 hours because now I have to go to bed.
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The next part of this puzzle can be found at:
How I got this:
So, what to do next:
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Armed with Thomas Blue's star-finding work, we may solve the 4 logic grids as follows:
The rules of the puzzle
Step by step solution:
Grid 1
Grid 2
Grid 3
Big grid
Here begins speculation
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Some quick terms I should define:
'Number chasing' - a strategy similar to sudoku where you focus on a single number, and figure out where that number must appear in some region. Can be applied to place many of the same number around the grid, or to fill out a region totally.
'Can't be anything else' - focusing on a single cell, and working out the only ...
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Part 1
The final solution (finally)
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What a fun puzzle!
Green means a note.
Blue means an important deduction.
Red means can be deduced by shallow sudoku logic, or shallow slope logic (I.e. If you have a 1 and 3, a 2 goes in between.)
Start off by focusing on 1s and 8s, because they're limited in where they can go (they have to be in a corner). In particular, that top middle area let's us ...
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Final solution
Step-by-step explanation
In each of the 2x2 boxes with determinant 0, we have four numbers $a,b,c,d$ between 1 and 9 such that $ad=bc,a\neq b\neq d\neq c\neq a$. This leaves surprisingly few possibilities:
The only possibilities for the pairs $\{a,d\},\{b,c\}$ (unordered in all ways; these are just two pairs with equal products) are:
{1,9},...
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MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT, DO NOT LOOK UNLESS YOU REALLY HAVE GIVEN UP
Full solution.
No words needed.
(Hopefully there are no mistakes)
Plus, the lines and text were fully hand-drawn for those of you who still appreciate hand-drawn art stuff. I seriously doubt that anybody is actually going to try reconstructing my solution, but if you have any parts that ...
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From some lines of the poem:
we can figure out that
Turns out there's exactly one way to do this.
And now, the sequence:
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Transmission from the moon radio-station
After a long time in space I started to forget what N and E stand for on Earth. Well, now it's clear to me: East and North are directions. The first time I tried to get through those Space Grids, I mixed them up and also tried to take clues from the spectrum... Oops, let me get the spoiler glasses on. I might talk ...
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I claim that
The proof:
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Okay. THAT. WAS. INCREDIBLE!
It took me two solid hours of work to solve and even longer to write and draw it all up here - hopefully it'll be worth it! To start us off, here is the final maze layout and routes:
In the following explanation all colours have been abbreviated to their initials as follows: G=Green, O=Orange, P=Purple, Y=Yellow.
An ...
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EDIT : wrote the complete answer.
Take a look at the grid submitted by OP.
There's also those intriguing blue squares.
We can move on.
I'm struggling with the 'spoiler' blocks.
Here comes my original work (I feel like a fraud ^^)
and the hint of OP
This made me think of
Fiddling with the versions, one was right on it.
So to your question "who am i ...
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Resident Grid Detective checking in to drop off the answer to this lovely puzzle. Step by step pics coming soon.
Step by step ish:
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I've been really enjoying these puzzles. This was the best one yet.
Reasoning:
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Full details on individual clue answers in this sheet. Thanks to Beastly Gerbil, boboquack, elias, Rubio, and Sid for the help.
Part 1: Assembly and Cryptics
Part 2: Matching and More Cryptics
Part 3: Masyu
Part 4: The Key
Part 5: Unlocking
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Answer for the question mark:
Solution:
Working:
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Answer
Step-by-step solution
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I was working this independently of QuantumTwinkie, but I think the crossword portion is solved:
The other bit/two bits of this puzzle is that
The final grid looks like this:
Thanks for the puzzle!
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From Somebody's completed nonogram grid, we can see
Therefore,
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The solution is as follows:
My Java-based solver is viewable here.
The solver is a quasi-brute-forcer with efficient backtracking. The major headache was that I initially assumed both "wells" in piece 9 were simultaneously full or empty. However, no solution exists for either of these cases. Much time was spent trying to figure out what was wrong with the ...
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