I felt much the same way going in: "Hey, these are mostly iterative puzzles! I'm going to screw through this thing!"

I was wrong. And how.

The bloody Maysu had me going nuts for far too long. I had to make a [sigh] guess in order to solve it, and even then I made a stupid error the first time through and had to erase the whole thing and start over. BUT! Studying the puzzle afterward, I found the linchpin I'd missed: it's the black dot diagonally between the 'E' and 'I' white dots. Its angle cannot open up-and-left because of 'E' or down-and-right because of 'I' - that much I knew. What I didn't see right away was that up-and-right was barred because of 'D' and the black dot down and right from it. (That's a layout I don't see very often, but really should commit to memory.) The rest of the puzzle is much more straightforward after drawing the line left-and-down through the linchpin.

The shame is that if I hadn't lost so much time to the Masyu and other distractions, I'd have just finished the Cross Sums in time. Damn it.

What's kinda bugging me now is the Corral. I stalled out on it bigtime, and I still don't see what I'm missing...

I didn't touch the Fence Posts with a ten-foot pole. (Twelve-foot, maybe, but definitely not ten-.) I figured I'd have no idea how to start it when I read the instructions yesterday and I confirmed that inside of ten seconds when I saw the actual puzzle.

Frankly, I'm just happy I found all ten differences, and quickly at that. I usually screw that up. I also liked Comic Strips. That was cute. I should have seen that one coming sooner, too.

And as for the Fridge Magnets, well... sorry. My fault. I didn't mean to make it that hard, honest. - ZM