Comments on Puzzle #27833: Bad from the Beginning....
By Nell ()
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difficulty: 
solvability: moderate lookahead
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: moderate lookahead
Puzzle Description:
(This puzzle was recovered from the 2016 database crash. Description not available.)
#1: Jota (jota) on Jan 28, 2019 [SPOILER] classify
Nice solve! No idea who is it supposed to be.#2: Carl Albach (albach) on Jul 13, 2021 [SPOILER] classify
Is this Count Olaf, from Lemony Snicket's "Series of Unfortunate Events"?#3: Vaggelis Kamaris (evag7651) on May 12, 2022 classify
hard but solvable.#4: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 10, 2026 classify
Found to have a unique solution by wombatilim.#5: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jun 10, 2026 classify
Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.#6: Wombat (wombatilim) on Jun 10, 2026 [HINT] classify
Initial line & color logic solves 84% with only black remaining.#7: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Jun 11, 2026 [SPOILER] classify
C13: Whether R15 or R21 is black, R21C14 is black. LL.
R34: If the 7 is placed in C17-23, R33 C20-21 would need to be white, which would put blacks into R35 C17-19 and R35C22, which is invalid. Therefore R34 C9-14 must be black.
LL to finish.
Carl -- I looked up what Count Olaf looks like, and I think it must be him. Neat! Here are some drawings:
https://poppysbestofbooks.wordpress.com/tag/count-olaf/
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