Walkthrough

I know how I solve this puzzle, but it’s fun wondering how others will. Top to bottom? Left to Right? Odd-numbered boxes first? Alphabetically? Any order that leads to the fully-zipped puzzle is great.

The Christmas season means red and green everywhere, like holly with berries decking halls. Red and green, red and green. Such contrast! Red like stop, green like go. Red like danger, green like success. Like targeting, but successful. Speaking of contrast, red and green are are also the colors of Parity Lines (odd versus even) and German Whisper lines (high versus low).

It’s the Goldilocks of Min/Max puzzles: equal parts hot and cold, high and low, maximum and minimum, for a result that is completely and thoroughly medium.

I know all the digits are facing the same direction, but just imagine that the puzzle rotates so the 75 is read right-to-left and the 74 is read bottom-to-top. Not at all related to Circuit, despite superficial similarities.

I know I’ve named a puzzle after The Killers’ best album, but that doesn’t mean I don’t also appreciate their more-popular hits. I celebrate their entire catalog!

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.

The game of Morra (aka Odds and Evens) is pure luck. Not this puzzle!

I think we're a clone now. Us and Mickey 17, or any number of storm troopers. Or the delightful chip off the old Wolverine block in Logan, X-23.