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Acknowledgements

An earlier version of this puzzle had a second solution, which was brought to my attention by mezkur7, Niverio, and rameshsrivats. Nevertheless, despite the flaw they were praising the puzzle and their kind words encouraged me to not give up on this puzzle. I also want to thank pms_headache for coming up with ideas to get the puzzle back online. I absolutely love how the community here jumps in to help, when something like that comes up.

The question was now how I wanted to go about fixing the puzzle. First, I considered adding one or a few more Kropki dots, to disambiguate the existing puzzle. However, I was not very happy with this line of thought. My intention with the puzzle was to create the feeling for the solver that they are at a cross roads, but here I was finding myself at the crossroads. What the puzzle really needed was an intentional logical flow for the middle stage, and I needed to investigate how to obtain it. There was a range of possibilities here, and I started to play with more options. I ended up changing the grid a bit more substantially.

Throughout this whole process I am really learning what it means to be a puzzle constructor, and I am so grateful for everyone that helped me with this process.

The puzzle