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The B you have in the top row is directly under a D clue on the outside, which I believe would render this solution invalid.

Hi Chairman,

I don't believe this counts as an alternate solution. From my understanding of the genre, you have to be able to construct the diagram one shelf at a time, without ever reusing a chain or post. The single-unit shelf in the top row can't have been put in there after placing the shelf on which it rests, as that would re-use the chain.

It's tough to explain, but I hope that made some sense. If there's still confusion, I'll post a picture later when I'm not at work.

Interesting. Somewhere in there I ended up taking a different path that wasn't straightforward (at least when I was solving it). Perhaps I simply missed something. I'll have to go back and double check what I missed.

Happy 2010 to those of us still there!

There's plenty of puzzles as of now to go around, but the issue comes in the way the site is set up on the backend to release puzzles (I don't know much about it as I'm a judge and not writing code (until I take over the site muahahaha!) )

Back on topic, we (meaning some of the other judges, as I'm slightly lazy about it

) currently manually pair puzzles for simultaneous release. When this hasn't been done, only 1 gets released on that day to the site.