Thermometers

It’s an XV Thermo puzzle, except you can’t see it all at once. You can see just enough to fill in one cell, after which you’ll be able to see more. This is the second of four puzzles exploring a guided solve path using Fog of War.

Modern integrated circuits are mass-produced and extremely tiny, but I remember when even products shipped by manufacturers like Sony had internal circuits soldered together, and chips glued glued in place.

It looked slightly more like three people crawling in an earlier version of this puzzle, but I’m keeping the name.

It’s a computer chip. Or a mockup of a computer chip. Transistors, traces, and so on.

It may seem like a lot of constraints, but it's a Samurai Sudoku, so you should only have deal with one or two at a time.

Not a commentary on computer operating systems at all.

Temperatures rise in much the same way wet paint does not. This puzzle is as easy as watching paint dry.

Someone might have been born in 1972. Maybe. Or there could be some other reason that’s a good year. It is, though.