My point was that claiming you needed no greens implies you have extraordinary powers of memory when nothing could be further from the truth, lol. Guessing requires no mental gymnastics whatsoever, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

Done, no green, one good guess.

start

Done. 3 guesses.

Start

jackt - I have at least 6 books on Sudoku techniques. Sometimes a puzzle is difficult to the point that even with the book and trying the various techniques, I cannot detect the one that will crack the puzzle. So I use Nishi - I start with a number and see if it leads to a completed puzzle or leads to one with a mistake. If it completes it, I was lucky, if it doesn't I try again. In a few rare cases, the "guess" is a learning experience. So your claim that guessing requires no mental gymnastics does not float my boat and frankly is wrong. This is not a contest on who uses the "purest" methodology to solve the puzzle. Besides, who are you to complain, at least Digondda paid for the privilege to play IronSudoku where as you and I did not.

Done, 3 guesses

Another lip syncher, lol. I may be wrong but it was the Doc who started the NGs to indicate he'd needed no greens to help him. I added the no guesses, because to do so without guessing is the sole accomplishment. If you in your mind think guessing is an accomplishment, let me help you out. It isn't. I'd love to hear how you think it is a learning experience though. OMG, stupid and proud of it. Six books. LOLOLOL.

Another lip syncher, lol. I may be wrong but it was the Doc who started the NGs to indicate he'd needed no greens to help him. I added the no guesses, because to do so without guessing is the sole
accomplishment. If you in your mind think guessing is an accomplishment, let me help you out. It isn't. I'd love to hear how you think it is a learning experience though. OMG, stupid and proud of it. Six books. LOLOLOL.

I'm with you KnightTime

done

g/ng

Jackt, just a sidenote...you have issues. I am afraid, sadly, the ones you are missing are yours. If you cannot read your posts and see (or hear) your judgment, condescension, "better than", etc, you may be smart, intelligent, etc, but your insecurities and ego come through LOUD and CLEAR. Here's a short course, so you can begin to look at yourself and work on you, before showing your true colors to others by your commentaries...EGO is always recognized by it's "FACE" - fear, arrogance, assessments, condescension, control, expectations, entitlements and demands...by my count you are good to go on 4 of those in JUST 4 posts...Hope that helps.

And, by the way, the objective is to complete the puzzle. The joy is found in the path to completion. Each path is unique as each person's thought process (aka path) to arrive at completion is unique...FWIW.

and there's no crying in baseball

unless you get hit in the face with the ball...everyone cries.

twas brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimbol in the wabe

all mimsey were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe

beware the jabberwock, my son, the jaws that bite and the claws that catch

So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

beware the jubjub bird, and shun the frumious bandersnatch

he took his vorpal sword in hand, long time the manxome foe he sought

(now yours)

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

you keep jumping ahead :)

and as in uffish thought he stood, the jabberwock with eyes of flame

came whiffling through the tulgey wood, and burbled as it came

one two, one two, and through and through, the vorpal blade went snicker-snack

he left it dead, and with its head, he went galumphing back

(now your second one)

Sorry...I was using greens.

oh frabjous day! calloo, callay! he chortled in his joy

twas brillig and the slithey toves did gyre and gimbol in the wabe

all mimsey were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe.

buttercup was raised on a small farm in the country of florin.

her favorite pastimes were riding her horse, and tormenting the farm boy that worked there.

his name was westley, but she never called him that.

"farm boy, polish my horse's saddle! i want to see my face shining in it by morning!"

"as you wish."

'as you wish' was all he ever said to her.

"farm boy, fill these with water... please"

"as you wish"

that day she was amazed to discover that when he was saying "as you wish", what he meant was, "i love you"

and even more amazing was the day she realized she truly loved him back.

"farm boy! fetch me that pitcher."

"as you wish."

*kiss*

westley had no money for marriage, so he packed his few belongings and left the farm to seek his fortune across the sea.

it was a very emotional time for buttercup.

"i fear i will never see you again!"

"of course you will."

"but what if something happens to you?"

"hear this now. i will always come for you."

"but how can you be sure?"

"this is true love. do you think this happens every day?"

westley didn't reach his destination.

his ship was attacked by the dread pirate roberts, who never left captives alive.

when buttercup got the news that westley was murdered, she went into her room and shut the door, and for days, she neither slept nor ate.

"i will never love again."

five years later, the great square of florin city was filled as never before, to hear the announcement of the great prince humperdinck's bride-to-be.

"my people! a month from now, our country will have its 500th anniversary."

"on that sundown, i shall marry a lady who was once a commoner like yourselves.

but perhaps you will not find her ... common... now.

would you like to meet her?"

*cheers*

"my people! the princess... buttercup!"

Interrupting with late breaking news: Done w/ greens, reds, and even a blue and six guesses. But. boy do I feel good!

i think i've messed mine up

the sudoku i mean

no wait maybe it's ok

yeah it's ok

Thank you for the literary interlude Hurshy :-)

done

Just started. I plan to use guesses whether I need them or not. Otherwise, the terrorists win.

go

re-start :(

done

huh - don't know what my problem was that first time around - huh

To Hurshy: Lewis Carroll's one of my favorites. To KnightTime, champion of the downtrodden:

A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear —

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is it but a dream?
Lewis Carroll : A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky

And here's Knighttime's:

At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that are on that plain.

“Fortune," said Don Quixote to his squire, as soon as he had seen them, "is arranging matters for us better than we could have hoped. Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes. For this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the Earth."

"What giants?" said Sancho Panza.

Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Translated by John Ormsby (1895)

Did it, no green, then when the going got rough one mistake (which counts as a bad guess) and another good guess.

A panther is like a leopard
But it hasn't been peppered.
When you witness a panther crouch
Prepare to say, "Ouch."
Better yet, when called by a panther,
Don't anther.
-- Ogden Nash

Done, No guessing. More difficult than it looked

done