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Quite a difficult one today.

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Uh... I din't find it too tough. You're talking about the difficult one, right? I'll try to superior one in a bit.

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It's possible you are a genius but don't know it.

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35 minutes. Good or bad?

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11 minutes here...

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35 minutes here as well.

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11 minutes here...

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I say god dang! That's quick.

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11 minutes here...

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I say god dang! That's quick.

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7 MINUTES!!!!
<font color="white"> then i gave up.
woooo </font>

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3 minutes 42 seconds. Not difficult at all. Trivial, in fact. Not even a hidden triple necessary to solve it, and (I think) only one hidden double.

Difficult would be one requiring an X-Wing, a Swordfish, or multi-coloring to solve. At least through a hidden quad in to call it difficult.... &lt;sigh&gt;

Jester

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My personal bests on USA Today, I started last week:

3 star - 6 minutes
4 star - 9 minutes
5 star - 13 minutes

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NH. =)

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Was doing ok - then I typed in a wrong number.
How the **** do you delete a number?????

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Select the offending square and hit the spacebar.

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That's pretty impresssive. You may be a genius.

I think I got an extra 2 at G1 so I gave up after about half an hour.

Next time I'll write it down.

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try usa today's sudoko. go to www.usatoday.com go to life section then scroll down to either games or sudoku on the left hand side. The software is ten times easier to use

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Im probably talking to the converted or addicted here but for those who havent found it yet try simple sudoko.
best and free software, with good advice for solving puzzles.

simple sudoku

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3 minutes 42 seconds. Not difficult at all. Trivial, in fact. Not even a hidden triple necessary to solve it, and (I think) only one hidden double.

Difficult would be one requiring an X-Wing, a Swordfish, or multi-coloring to solve. At least through a hidden quad in to call it difficult.... &lt;sigh&gt;

Jester

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my 7 min post had white message.

3:42 is impressive

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3 minutes 42 seconds. Not difficult at all. Trivial, in fact. Not even a hidden triple necessary to solve it, and (I think) only one hidden double.

Difficult would be one requiring an X-Wing, a Swordfish, or multi-coloring to solve. At least through a hidden quad in to call it difficult.... &lt;sigh&gt;

Jester

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Maybe you should practice spelling instead of waving your e-peen around all day

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They have a huge one (9 interlocking squares) on Sundays.

I am still working on the one they put out 3 weeks ago.

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Ridiculous. Why waste your time solving trivial puzzles that a simple computer program can complete in less than a second?

A Sudoku solver in Prolog is &lt;30 lines long, takes less than 10 minutes to write and solves a Sudoku puzzle in about the time it takes to blink.

WTF is with the craze?

mj

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3 minutes 42 seconds. Not difficult at all. Trivial, in fact. Not even a hidden triple necessary to solve it, and (I think) only one hidden double.

Difficult would be one requiring an X-Wing, a Swordfish, or multi-coloring to solve. At least through a hidden quad in to call it difficult.... &lt;sigh&gt;

Jester

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ok, my excuse is that it was the fourth or fifth sudoku I have ever solved [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Ridiculous. Why waste your time solving trivial puzzles that a simple computer program can complete in less than a second?

A Sudoku solver in Prolog is &lt;30 lines long, takes less than 10 minutes to write and solves a Sudoku puzzle in about the time it takes to blink.

WTF is with the craze?

mj

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hehe i'm in agreement. my research is in tomography, which is basically trying to fill in the values of a matrix of numbers, so when I go home for vacation and see my family all doing the same thing in their leisure time, it makes me choke.

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From: Mike Haven
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Edit/MH: Is this the content of a Private Message I sent you? I don't remember your asking me if you could post it.

I hope anyone else that may write a Private Message to you can now see that it may not remain private.

Do you understand what a cross-post is?

Did you see this post in Forum Suggestions?

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Damn, that interface sucks. Much easier to do it on paper.

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Damn, that interface sucks. Much easier to do it on paper.

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I actually like the interface for the most part, I just dislike only being able to enter three numbers per block.

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3 minutes 42 seconds. Not difficult at all. Trivial, in fact. Not even a hidden triple necessary to solve it, and (I think) only one hidden double.

Difficult would be one requiring an X-Wing, a Swordfish, or multi-coloring to solve. At least through a hidden quad in to call it difficult.... &lt;sigh&gt;

Jester

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I got it in 11 minutes. But if you would be kind enough to explain all these sudoku terms that you are talking about, I might just get faster and beat my wife. Right now, she is cleaning my clock on these things.

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Im curious to see the terms too. I have obviously figured out a lot in teaching myself how to do them, but I wonder if i have figured out the terms you used.

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This site will provide you the techniques you seek.

www.sudokuoftheday.com

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Mike,

Normally I would respond with a private response, but with respect to what you have said here, I would like to make this public.

I would sincerely like to apologize you if I have offended you. I admit to being ignorant of " <font color="orange">this post </font>" and am about to go read it right now.

Quite honestly, I made my post without thinking things through. It struck me as odd, and somewhat unfair that you made a post that you yourself labeled as O/T a couple weeks after locking mine (which was labeled as O/T as well). My post was important to me, as I'm sure yours was to you.

That being said, I did not take a moment to think about the best way to voice my displeasure with this, and all I can say is that I made a mistake for which I would like to apologize. I certainly did not consider that I was violating a trust you had placed in me, when you sent me a PM, and that to me is far more serious than any quibble I may have about our O/T posts. I apologize for this and would just like to say that I have no intention of allowing something like that to happen again.

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Edit/MH: Thank you for the apology. Accepted.

Although, with respect, I don't think your cross-post was labelled Off Topic, or, as I stated in my PM, I would have locked it, not deleted it.

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Difficult would be one requiring an X-Wing, a Swordfish, or multi-coloring to solve. At least through a hidden quad in to call it difficult.... &lt;sigh&gt;

Jester

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I got it in 11 minutes. But if you would be kind enough to explain all these sudoku terms that you are talking about, I might just get faster and beat my wife. Right now, she is cleaning my clock on these things.

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For a rundown of Sudoku techniques, check out:

http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/program...techniques.htm
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/sudoku/explain.htm

For ridiculously hard puzzles involving all these techniques, see:

http://www.sudocue.net/daily.php

To make your head explode, go here:

http://www.sudoku.org.uk/PDF/Dion_Cube.pdf

Jester

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Hey thanks...I'll be cleaning her clock soon enough now...heh

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Mike,

Normally I would respond with a private response, but with respect to what you have said here, I would like to make this public.

I would sincerely like to apologize you if I have offended you. I admit to being ignorant of " <font color="orange">this post </font>" and am about to go read it right now.

Quite honestly, I made my post without thinking things through. It struck me as odd, and somewhat unfair that you made a post that you yourself labeled as O/T a couple weeks after locking mine (which was labeled as O/T as well). My post was important to me, as I'm sure yours was to you.

That being said, I did not take a moment to think about the best way to voice my displeasure with this, and all I can say is that I made a mistake for which I would like to apologize. I certainly did not consider that I was violating a trust you had placed in me, when you sent me a PM, and that to me is far more serious than any quibble I may have about our O/T posts. I apologize for this and would just like to say that I have no intention of allowing something like that to happen again.

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Dude, leave this to PM. No need to post in this thread. i have no idea what you are talking about.

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Pretty simple as far as the sudoku I've seen goes.

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So I've been ignoring the Sudoku craze since it began fearful of what it might do to me, but today thanks to your post I tried it and of course it is fun and compelling and now I'm addicted and wasting a lot of time and pissed at you.

xo, Frau

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The Su Doku cube is intense stuff.