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Comments on Puzzle #20890: WCP #124 Charlie's Masterpiece
By Kai-Uwe Zickerick (conzick)

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Puzzle Description:

Charlie Chaplins wonderful song "Smile" - though your heart is aching

#1: Jota (jota) on Jan 17, 2013

Wonderful solve! Thank you very much Kai!
#2: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 17, 2013 [SPOILER]
Great song, even though kids today think Michael Jackson wrote it.

And while I wouldn't call it a masterpiece, The Great Dictator was amusing and heartwarming. (A poor Jewish barber is mistaken for German dictator Adenoid Hynkel)
#3: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 17, 2013
Great puzzle, but I miss the mustache.
#4: bugaboo (bugaboo) on Jan 17, 2013
after initial ll:

el the 4 clue in c1 to dot r19-20
ll
el the 6 clue in r20 to dot c8
ll to finish
no guessing
#5: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jan 18, 2013
thx for cool entry, Kai
#6: Kurt Kowalczyk (bahabro) on Jan 19, 2013
nicely done! tough solve...
#7: Tom O'Connell (sensei69) on Jan 20, 2013
congrats Kai,, please go to Q&A :)
#8: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jan 20, 2013
Well done, Kai.
#9: Teresa K (fasstar) on Jan 20, 2013 [SPOILER]
Tough solve, but very enjoyable, with a nice image. This one deserves two links. :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps6ck1ejoAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiKJmBgAfFE
#10: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 21, 2013 [SPOILER]
We sang this in my senior musical, which was a 1920s revue (even though it was written in the '30s and lyrics weren't added until the '50s, but who's counting?). "Smile" was an attempt to raise spirits during the Great Depression. Another such song was "Ain't We Got Fun?" "I lost my money, Oh but Honey, Ain't we got fun?"
#11: Kai-Uwe Zickerick (conzick) on Jan 21, 2013
thank you all and greetings from Germany
#12: Aldege Cholette (aldege) on Jan 21, 2013
Congrats Kai.:)
#13: Karen Scholl (karenttrouble) on Jan 22, 2013
Just the right amount of difficulty :D
#14: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Nov 18, 2013
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.
#15: Joe (infrapinklizzard) on Nov 18, 2013 [HINT]
I didn't need the edge logic on c1. (The key to doing this with line logic is to realize that all the clues in c3 are greater than one. Therefore, the block at c3r10 must extend to at least r11.)

The only bit of advanced logic was edge logic on the 6 in r20 to make c8 white.

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