Japanese crossword «The Cow as White as Milk»

Wow!!! That was HARD!!!

So much white space that I can't figure out anything. So difficult that it isn't fun

first step on my road to all of the puzzles solved

done

Lots of guessing needed, or maybe hours and hours of calculations. Not nice

Это не так сложно, и очень интересно!!!

This is my 2624th puzzle on this site... out of all these, there were only three where I had to do a little (!) guesswork to solve them - this one, however... I'm not even sure it can be solved by a regular human brain without guessing. You need to think so far ahead, it is no fun. I would love to say at least the result is worth it, but, while cute, the picture is pretty crude. I like a challenge, but I prefer to conquer them with logic alone. Definitely the most difficult puzzle I have encountered so far.

:-)

I was able to do it with logic, but it took a while. Very difficult, but I like a challenge every once and a while.

I reached a point very early on where strict logic failed me. I had done the pink and had partially placed some of the longer lines. I also had filled in some x's where I knew there had to be blank spaces. But could go no farther and puzzle was mostly empty. From the pink patches, few partial lines, and the color scheme, I guessed what the picture contained. I laid down the seven pixel black line at the bottom, in a place I imagined might work, and got lucky. That advanced me a bit farther. I probably had a few more guesses, but eventually I reached a point where logic could be used again and finished the bulk of the puzzle that way.