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Difficulty: Easy Sunday, August 10, 2014

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CHAT LOG for Sunday, August 10, 2014

12:17 am
ElDubUC

Done, no green.
12:42 am
WHB

Done
2:37 am
eyeman

Finished here, but the Red Sox - Angels are not - 19th inning, tied 4-4. 3:40 am eastern time.
4:12 am
MrOoijer

Agree with Grethen, those easies are uninteresting
6:01 am
tincup

done
6:19 am
sprite

I agree, too many easies
6:24 am
sprite

in stead of not playing anymore, how about writing an email to DrGod? Anyone willing? Or I could do it, but you guys have played more faithfully than I.
7:22 am
Phil

start
7:28 am
Phil

ding
7:30 am
Phil

I got bored for a while too but just came back. Amuse myself on the easies by trying to do them in 4 or 5 minutes, or trying to complete a certain box of 9 first.
7:59 am
Diane

I like the mix and its randomness. As my time is pretty limited, I also appreciate the number of easy games.
8:48 am
tuco

go ahead an complain sprite. It will probably be appreciated knowing that a free site with harder puzzles than you will find elsewhere is not up to your standards.
10:29 am
ypsigirl

done
10:51 am
Gretchen

Wow Tuco - no need to be nasty. When I first started playing, there really was a good mix - mediums and hards as well as easys and experts. Now there is a much bigger concentration of easys and experts. I liked the hards the best and there are hardly any any more. Just wondering what happened to the "mix". Good idea though, Phil.
10:57 am
Gretchen

Zipedee do dah today. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.
11:54 am
janetb50

I wonder if drwho could produce some statistics showing the percentages of easies, mediums, hards, and experts for each year. (If he didn't have anything better to do!)
12:31 pm
drwho

Difficulty score 13. No green.
12:34 pm
drwho

janetb50: The information you look for could be easily extracted from the data I already collect at my website. I need to make some minor improvements on that page anyway, so based on your suggestion I will add a date range to the search that is already there. That should allow anyone interested in such things to get the answers for themselves at my site.
12:50 pm
drwho

Yesterday's puzzle: 21.
12:50 pm
helenkeller

go
12:57 pm
helenkeller

done
1:06 pm
drwho

From a quick glance at the statistics I keep, it appears that the mix of puzzles changed around May 2012. Before May 2012 there were more medium and hard puzzles and less expert per month than there are now.
1:07 pm
drwho

I have some ideas on writing a sudoku puzzle generator that allows you to specify what kind (easy, medium, hard or expert) you want. If I ever get that done and it works well perhaps I could sell it to Dr_God.
1:47 pm
zoomzoom

Done.
2:17 pm
janetb50

Thanks for looking into the statistics, drwho. A new puzzle generator sounds like a great idea!
2:21 pm
janetb50

Another observation: The chat log used to be much more lively and fun. Have the boring puzzles driven the interesting people away?
3:16 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I still enjoy the Easies. I get a quick "attaboy" from solving one. But, yes, Mediums are even better.
3:29 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Real easy, man. I almost got through it in random glances, without any systematic search. 10.
4:44 pm
Prinise

Done.