christmas

Nice tree and gifts but too many single spots to find logically.

Agreed. :(

Disappointed that I can't finish this. It's nice.

Shame, it's a cute pic up until you get to all the singles :o(

Well...I tried for quite a while and just can't nail down all the single spaces. Cute pic up til that point though.

Many thanks to Kika for a great help! Without her, it would be unsolvable for me for I would never expect such strange shapes of the dots...

SPOILER: Diagonals from => top => to
r5/c1 => r1/c5 => r4/c8
r8/c1 => r4/c5 => r6/c7
r11/c1 => r7/c5 => r8/c6
r14/c1 => r10/c5
The right side is symmetric to the left one...

Thank you Joe Tramp.

Very nice picture.

Thanks Joe, I had trouble understanding your hint though, but they inspire me to get it. To either side of the tree there are four lines going up parallel to the tree. The lines start at r1/c5,8,11,14 and continue up 5 squares in total. Top two lines then go back down diagonal first three, then two, then one, then no squares. Sort of like holly or something hanging behind the tree. Nice picture except for the impossibleness of it but I can see why the designer thought it might be solvable.

Sorry, that should be C1, R5,8,11,14.

Thanks Joe and Rats - couldn't have finished this without your hints. It is a lovely picture once solved.

Thank you.