In an attempt to find the elusive
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I generated several puzzles following this pattern
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If I get a puzzle that has less than 22 clues & is diagonally symmetric, then I would have found my target.
1,865,551 isomorphically different puzzles later neither puzzle came out
can somebody prove their non-existence & put me out of my misery once & for all.
tarek