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2020-12-29
I finished all of the puzzles but the picture is far from colored in. Am I missing something?
These puzzles have been a blast!
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2021-01-03
@
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: lots of the card will still be brown once you're done, but you should see a nice picture. Perhaps one of your answers is wrong, making a mess of the picture?
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