Puzzle Description:

(This puzzle was recovered from the 2016 database crash. Description not available.)

#1: Jota (jota) on Jan 2, 2019       classify

Couldn't solve w/o guessing.

Hi, Jota, we have to stop meeting like this. There's guessing for sure, but once you solve one of those thingies on the right, the rest are an easy pattern. But are they flowers? Pinwheels? The harder part is the title and figuring out what's supposed to be getting what. I'm stumped. Do you have any guesses?

Funny Lollipop! It looks like that game from Harry Potter.

I would have given it 4 stars, but subtracted one for the guessing. Quidditch, and if we had yellow, there would be the Golden Snitch!

Found to have a unique solution by valerie.

Found to be solvable by line and color logic alone by valerie.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by valerie.

(#6 was a typo.)

I mostly used the helper to solve this. I needed lookahead only to solve the dark area at the bottom of columns 11-18. I looked at the 5 in column 13 and the 2's in column 12 and found that no matter where I placed the 5, the first 3 in row 25 would be in columns 11-13. That is, if the 5 went down to the bottom row, then because of the 1's in the bottom row, the 2's would go up into row 25, and if the 5 went up into row 25, then that 3 would still go in the same place. Then line and color logic from there. For some of the area on the right, I looked horizontally at which squares had to be a "1" and put dots on either side of each 1. Then I needed to say "this column contains only 2s, so any gap of one space in this column must be a dot." Then line logic to finish.

It looks to me like Amanda was playing a human version of Quidditch -- maybe on a school Quidditch team? Neat!

I used Ring Logic, over on the right side. Any time you have that specific pattern of symmetrical 3s 2s and 1s, it'll make a ring (or a tire, or a bubble...) Moderate lookahead, either way.

I thought the mixed martial artist was trying to get the pesky fly with his blade, but finally just shot it with his gun.

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