User comments: Sylfa

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Crossword	Date	Comment
Monarch butterfly	29 January 2024, 14:58	Since this site doesn't have any tools for allowing users to adjust the contrast, as a puzzle creator you have to ensure there's enough contrast between colours. Even if the end result is less pretty. At first I felt the colours were separated enough so I started doing it. But it quickly became apparent that the orange and red are hard to distinguish. Making the puzzle more about squinting at colours than solving the puzzle. In this case, making the orange a midrange yellow would separate it both from the white background of the site and the red. The brown could be made black to give more contrast in the darker colours. There's websites that can give guidance on how much contrast there should be between colours to make a site easy to read, you can use one of those to check that the contrast is high enough if it's difficult for you to tell. Pretty result, but annoying puzzle due to the contrast.
Octopus	10 November 2023, 18:40	Superb puzzle, great fun to solve. And the picture is great in the end as well! It's really nice with some really difficult ones with a, relatively speaking, smaller size.
Tiny Monarch	23 October 2023, 11:05	I figured it'd be too easy from the symmetry so I went colour by colour. Adds a bit more of a puzzle to it when you have to figure out which colour to start with. I'm sure you already know of that method to add some difficulty, but someone else might not.
Corgi	14 September 2023, 3:33	This one was a nice challenge to go colour by colour on. You have to either have a good memory or (as I did) mark the empties though. No guessing required at all.
Dog	19 October 2021, 17:18	Had some fun solving it nearly entirely by color, 452631. Only had 2 squares of color 3 left to fill when I needed to swap to 1 to find which of the two pairs was the correct one.
Fire	13 September 2020, 22:27	But why would someone set fire to a teddy-bear?!
Bubble O' Bill	31 July 2020, 23:46	https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Bubble+O%27+Bill&s=d
Santa	29 July 2020, 2:47	Undead Santa?
The eleventh doctor	20 July 2020, 13:51	Solved color by color, very easy. It's more of a picture than a puzzle really. Light Gray -> Red -> Brown -> Peach -> Charcoal gray -> Beige -> Black Though you can do any color first, probably even black though that might be a bit too much of a headache.
Noodles	17 July 2020, 15:16	Not Poodles.
Cockerel	5 July 2020, 20:55	It's #dee8ee, that's 90.2% white, and much too little contrast to be a safe choice for contrast: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=DEE8EE&bcolor=FFFFFF
Blueberries	30 June 2020, 21:32	As pretty as the picture is, the puzzle is essentially: Copy the colors in order until filled in...
Pickaxe	30 June 2020, 17:24	Way to many colors to make a good puzzle, and the colors aren't even that descriptive for wood
Fox	27 June 2020, 6:29	Very nice motif, excellent!
Fancy man on horse!	19 June 2020, 2:46	Clearly it's a broken beer bottle.
The girl in the cap	18 June 2020, 1:08	Very well done
Roll	17 June 2020, 4:26	For a bit there I was quite concerned what had happened to that poor pecan...
Blue Pearl	16 June 2020, 3:25	Beautiful, but tedious with all the 1's, not too hard despite that.
Large bouquet	12 June 2020, 14:40	Very clever use of negative space, and it makes it a more interesting puzzle to solve as well
Meeting or parting	31 May 2020, 19:55	There's not a singular purpose for a yellow ribbon, they are used for everything to protest the planned destruction of a park, to signify their son is at war, to raise awareness of suicide, to remember a sunken ship, to signal support for hostages, to signal solidarity with the armed forces, pro-democracy, victims of a riot, supporting prisoners of war, as a backing to medal of honor, press freedom, to support a leader in exile, to support ex-convicts... The list is long and varied (and that's just what's on wikipedia), so I can't help but wonder why they would make it perfect?
Mappy (Video Game)	30 October 2018, 14:01	Just copying a sprite from a game doesn't make a great puzzle, in this case you could have merged colors 2+9, 6+8 and removed 7 to make for a more interesting puzzle
Owl	22 October 2018, 15:09	It depends on eyes, screen, disability, lighting, and probably more. Just because you can see the difference doesn't invalidate that the colors are way to similar. I had to scoot over so the light hit my screen differently and swap between them to see the difference. And more importantly, the puzzle gets easier if you split it into too many shades, in this case the picture would look just about identical with just color #4 (black)
Zebra	17 September 2018, 4:46	Excellent use of negative space
Dog	17 September 2018, 4:32	Very nice, good shading and not too much of a column/row being fully described at the start
Amanita	14 September 2018, 20:31	Very nice and easy, great use of negative space. Generally I prefer harder ones but it wasn't too simple
Pigeon	13 September 2018, 20:09	I thought so at first too, but if you google the name of the puzzle you will see plenty of images showing off just these colors.
Pigeon	13 September 2018, 20:07	I think this is a good point for why contrast is important, there weren't any blues in the colors if you ask me (magenta and mint green). Was a nice picture in the end though (and luckily I had no issue with these particular colors).
Blueberry	12 September 2018, 23:00	The two greens don't have enough contrast between them, try darkening the darker version and changing the hue of the brighter one towards yellow a bit. Other than that quite the good puzzle making decent use of negative space inside the picture.
Seal	11 September 2018, 17:07	Too many shades of brown, and the end result doesn't benefit much from the extra shades either.
Octopus	29 August 2018, 20:48	Bit more contrast would be appreciated, for instance red shifting the medium purple colour a bit and blue shifting the brightest one. But other than that it was excellent, well done.
I. Can. Fly!	9 July 2018, 22:39	I think it's meant to be Orange with a yellow-orange beak, but yes mouth line and nostril. The eye is formed by the negative space in the black
Happy Toast	9 July 2018, 22:08	Very quick, super simple with both symmetry and not using white space inside the figure, cute though ^^
Ghost cat	9 July 2018, 21:32	Clearly not a [spoiler]ghost-cat, but a pen-cat[/spoiler]
Ghost cat	9 July 2018, 21:31	Contrast between colors is so important to make a puzzle fun rather than infuriating to solve. Luckily I could see the difference but I agree with you in principle.
Cockerel	17 May 2018, 22:29	It's great, except the color choice, the off white is painful to work with with a white background. In this case, consider that [spoiler]chickens[/spoiler] come in other colors than white. Or try to frame the subject with a background so the empty spaces form the white color. Other than that, cute and fun
Footprints	16 April 2018, 22:18	Well done, the lack of fully described rows and columns make it a lot more interesting to solve, if possible though avoid [spoiler]duplicating two shapes[/spoiler] as it makes it less interesting once you figured out [spoiler]the first one[/spoiler].
Pipe	14 April 2018, 21:50	That's no [spoiler]pipe[/spoiler]
Spelunky	13 April 2018, 23:16	"---others prefer large sections of one colour." Your implying that others want it easier, when in fact what at least some of us want is a harder puzzle, this one was dead easy, the only thing masquerading that fact was that there are many colors
Madeline	13 April 2018, 23:01	Simply using sprites from games make for terrible puzzles, the rows could have had all but the black colors filled in with question marks and it would still be solvable.
Hat	9 April 2018, 18:29	Its only 5pm here so after a brief ponder I saw what it was, the [spoiler]green stitching[/spoiler] threw me off a bit at first but all in all its very well made, and a great puzzle. It's a great example of how nice you can make the picture with just a few colors, and it makes the puzzle all the more enjoyable to solve when the colors are contrasting with each other.
Kirby	9 April 2018, 12:45	Straight up using [spoiler]game sprites[/spoiler] make for poor puzzling, or rather, very easy puzzling.
Cheese Board	8 April 2018, 22:21	Very good one, thanks
A Line in the Sand	8 April 2018, 20:19	You probably already know, but you can create a custom css (style sheet) for most browsers, you can force the background to be black and text white there. I don't know if that would be enough for you (along with using dark themes) but I thought I'd mention it since it's not a feature most people know about or use.
Snowman	28 March 2018, 22:15	Color 2 and 4 are nearly identical to the background, use more contrast or reduce the number of colors
Rose	27 March 2018, 22:00	Way too little contrast between the shades, its a puzzle foremost, making it tedious to solve just so the finished picture can look a tiny bit prettier isn't right.
Lemon	27 March 2018, 14:03	Very good and challenging puzzle
Cactus	26 March 2018, 19:14	It's very easy to solve, but kudos on the colors, even with 4 greens you managed to get them sufficiently contrasting that it was possible to differentiate them. [spoiler]You can solve the whole thing by only using the rows and then narrowing the fields by crossing out the outermost rows. Row 8-10, 12-14 describe the whole row, then column 1 and 14 are filled in, rinse and repeat.[/spoiler]
Pot	13 January 2018, 0:31	Picking an off white color is not a very good idea, made it tedious to fill in
Bonsai	12 December 2017, 20:45	The highlight of the pot doesn't line up with the shadow of the pot, other than that well done.
Christmastree	8 December 2017, 17:32	Go from bottom to top and it's not even a puzzle, just a color by numbers.