The scanraid program only used one advanced analysis technique (X-cycles). It made it look easy!

Is x-cycles like x-wing?

I don't think so.

Well, that's something at least. I tried x-wing earlier and it didn't work, hah.

www.scanraid.com/sudoku is the place for the explanation.

Yeah I have that site.. I see x-cycles now. It was hiding!

ahh, time for super-quick sudoku puzzle solving time thingy of doom!!!!

done.

<- crazy person

Well, I've finished the easy, and now I feel better about myself. I'll get back to tackling the evil tomorrow. Nite nite! :)

drwho: you have a script that checks the difficulty of every puzzle, right?

Yes, actually a C program.

ever consider rewriting it as javascript?

I don't do Java, never saw the advantage.

not java, js, which would let you make it into a greasemonkey script, or a firefox extension

just something to think about, anyway, i'm out

Learning Javascript isn't on the agenda.

go

go again

you sya done?

take too long

go

done

hi

hi

can't do it damn!

me too

but I did it & feel it's a good way to start my new year

YES! Finally finished yesterday's expert with lots and lots and lots of guessing. :D

Oh, but I was writing about today's ! Congrats on yesterday's expert, nilole !

today's one is HARDDDD

hi all

begin...

hi all

i tried to solve it without greens. seems like i HAVE to use greens - thing i never do with easy puzzles. sucks !!!

finally done. what a downer!

don't feel too bad bzik. I blame it on monday. i am never good on mondays.

i feel bad ;)

Done...finally. green due to the fact that i am blind and can't see obvious things. sheesh.

Ha

Nailed that puppy!

Rank me, baby!

No green or red!

Victory is MINE!

Cue theme music.

hello everybody. limer, are you here?

is anyone who does well in bubble there?

i meant babble :)

oh well. I'm done. good day all

Thanks franebrown! I had to run to class, heh.. congrats on today's! :)

jeebus -- it took me three tries for an Easy -- somewhere it's too simple to make a wrong assumption. This time, with patience, I used greenmarks, and all went well.

So much for that ..

this puzzle has been mislabelled

"easy" is not the right name for it.

they should call it "a monkey could do this with one hand tied behind his back"

oh... um... deepest apologies to anyone who had trouble with it.

didn't...uh...didn't mean to imply...that is to say...not that there's anything wrong with that, and a penny saved is a penny earned, so find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you'll have good luck, which doesn't even rhyme, it's only assonant, and i think assonance is cheap, don't you, prolly only costs a penny, which reminds me, a stitch in time saves nine, which could save you a pretty penny, depending on what it is you're stitching

how's the humble pie hurshy?

and if you're using diamond thread

give it up hurshy!

oh, were people actually listening to all that?

i thought i was just amusing myself.

difficult not to with an epistle like that

I think I'm on my 3rd restart!

the chatroom just seemed so empty, i thought i'd do a little sudoku improv

a valiant attempt, if a bit off the mark....

whose sudoku is it anyway?

good work Hurshy :)

thank you sneeu. :) it is certainly a particularly BRAND of humor, which not everyone would find entertaining.

exactly dave

does that make you greg proops or ryan styles?

hmmm, maybe a cross between the two, as i am tall and thin, but i have glasses

FINALLY - so much work for one little point!

She sings better than Wayne Brady . .

lol, how would you know, you haven't actually heard me

I have a brilliant imagination ..

i'm sure. but is it ACCURATE?

What's the difference?

brilliant could be creative, but wrong.

If you sing, and I hear a choir of angels, how is that wrong?

getting deep in here...

because i do not sound like a choir of angels.

No kidding ..

i am no ululator

I can't hear you, so my reality is right, whatever I imagine ..

you are like adam savage

Thank you

rather harder than a typical easy but somewhat fun

still there, hursh?

hope you all had a good yom kippur and were sealed in the book of life. i, i am mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

who knows into which book i've been sealed. a gooood literary novel i expectt.

lol mab. i expect so as well

i couldn't pick a book to be sealed in. there are SO many

'heart of darkness' for me. oh dear.

hi all

The computer seems to agree that its harder than an easy. Diffuculty score = 19.

I think I agree that it is hard for an easy, but I did it last night when I was tired so my perception might be skewed a little.

I solved it without markers. It isn't medium. No need of any advanced strategies (fishy patterns, wings, etc...). Does require some pause for thought though (I usually avg about 4:30 on jigsawdoku.com 9x9 mediums) so I'm not sure how to grade it.

go

ddone

well, i think the person who ranks these used to be a weatherwo/man