If it's not the math that gives you pause, but concern over how the final product will look after alternate solutions are used, you can just fudge it. That's what most implementations do, fade in the image, which often uses multiple colors and hardly resembles the nonogram at all. It's a bit hard to interpret what your objection is, honestly.
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you can just fudge it. That’s what most implementations do, fade in the image, which often uses multiple colors and hardly resembles the nonogram at all. It’s a bit hard to interpret what your objection is, honestly.
Valid point, but my knee-jerk reaction to that statement is that I don’t want to fudge it and don’t want to swap out what they’ve solved for the larger collage I have them building.
A puzzle having more than one solution can end up just being a constraint that I apply to myself while making puzzles: every puzzle I make must have one solution. Then solving by solution or solving by not breaking contract with hints doesn’t matter.