Okay coppied and pasted from myoriginal post onthe locked post.

My technique for solving.
Change all the symbols to the same of once character.

Find out how many greens. Change all but that number to the blanks and then continue until all the characters are in the right place.

Than change all remaining to the next character.
Then do the same.
See how many greens, Change all but the number of new greens to blank til its in the right place.

Repeat til you're finished.

It usually works out.
Think puffikins (sp?) figured it out in 10 minutes using it or it was gooly can't rememebr and so much trouble looking back right now.

Don't know why I'm back here checking posts considering I have 3 assignment to complete and work tomorrow.