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I think the important thing is, whether this item is male or female, black or white, animal or vegetable, we should not judge him.
OK, can someone please suggest what I might have done wrong? I can use Microsoft Edge, or Firefox, and everything on PuzzlePicnic works fine. The same with Chrome until a couple of weeks ago, now all I get is a completely blank, white, window, whether I try to go to the home page or any sub-page. I have no problems whatsoever with any other web site. I have no warnings or error messages or pop-up boxes. I've tried refresh, control-refresh, closing and opening the browser, looking for a blocked page list, etc, all with no success.

I've obviously done something stupid, but I have no idea what! All suggestions gratefully received...

Tim
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Suppose a 5 by 5 square and letters A to D. If you see A2 at the top of the column, A can only be in row 2 or 3. Often you can determine which by looking at the rows.
The puzzle indicates a single in the top row, not the left half of a larger ship....
Hmmmm. Interesting. I have previously completed all the other puzzles in this genre (Slalom) without a quibble. But in this one for some reason I thought you had to get from "10" to "11", which is clearly impossible. I self-diagnose dementia. Sorry.

OK....why is the circled number 11? Shouldn't it be 12? Am I mis-understanding something here?
Oh, sorry, my mistake again....please ignore....
I hope you know what you've let yourself in for. I discovered this site a couple of years ago, and have since completely wasted an enormous amount of time that I could instead have used for designing a nuclear fusion reactor, or curing cancer, or proving the Beal conjecture, or something....
Yes, this puzzle should be withdrawn. It is clearly impossible if every island is the size stated!!!!
"...If a cell is empty, there may be no turn in that cell..."
Shouldn't this be
"...If a cell is empty, there cannot be a turn in that cell..." ?
Otherwise what is the difference between that and a cell with a diamond?
Just to let you know that when I try to check if there are (eg) any LITS puzzles I haven't yet solved, I get

Puzzles 0 to 0 of 0 matches. java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

EDIT: Oh, sorry, just seen this has been reported previously.
Three comments.

First, I'd like to congratulate all of those who run and organise this site. There is nothing else like it on the 'net that I am aware of. So my most sincere thanks from all of us who enjoy testing our brains, and doing so by trying to solve puzzles. Your time and efforts are very very much appreciated.

Second, I'd be interested in knowing how others judge their own puzzle-solving abilities. I judge myself in the following way: if I can solve a puzzle without putting in any provisional steps (and later having to delete them, and trying something else), I regard that as a success. But if I have to put in provisional partial solutions, I tend to regard that as a failure, even if as a result I solve the puzzle correctly. How do others judge themselves?

Third, a piece of pure personal promotion. I run a web site which is devoted, if you like, to really really really hard puzzles. Indeed, unsolved puzzles most of which have been thought about by brilliant minds for sometimes hundreds of years. It is at
http://unsolvedproblems.org/
I advertise this here not for self-aggrandizement, but because it occurs to me that expert puzzle solvers, such as are found on this site, may just have original insights into one of more of the puzzles listed there.

If I have exceeded the bounds of what is allowable here, please excuse my impudence.

Tim

Took me a long time. But was quite beautiful. Congrats!
Number: Puzzle #4368
Genre: Turnstiles
Author: edderiofer
Appeared at: July 14, 2014
OK, hopefully I'll see the answer as soon as I've posted this question and clicked "Submit". But how can all the white areas possibly be connected when there's an unbroken black line dividing the the inside from the outside???

Edit: I guess the outside doesn't count as part of the puzzle, and that only the part inside the black line counts. But this seems a little contrary to the spirit of the puzzle....
 
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