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Difficulty: Medium Tuesday, April 17, 2007

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CHAT LOG for Tuesday, April 17, 2007

12:07 am
Stromile

POOP
12:11 am
Zoor

finito!
12:14 am
augurus

Narf.
12:44 am
WHB

Done
4:58 am
spreadeagle

Done. Pretty easy for a medium. No greens.
6:05 am
skizzybiz

crosshatch, crosshatch, roly poly crosshatch!
6:10 am
h

go
6:22 am
h

done
6:37 am
peternl

hi all
6:48 am
smooth_pappa

good morning
6:48 am
smooth_pappa

go!
6:59 am
smooth_pappa

done
7:51 am
drwho

Difficulty score 18. Cross-hatching and region intersection analysis (can be thought of as virtual cross-hatching).
9:19 am
OrangeSlice

Seemed like an easy.
9:21 am
hurshy

yeah, not bad at all
9:24 am
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
9:46 am
UnikeTheHunter

Stuck. Going green.
9:49 am
UnikeTheHunter

Still stuck.
9:50 am
UnikeTheHunter

Aha! Missed a cross hatch.
9:54 am
UnikeTheHunter

Uh oh! Some mistake.
10:01 am
UnikeTheHunter

A hidden pair. First one I've ever found.
10:03 am
Zugzug7

go
10:09 am
Zugzug7

done
10:12 am
UnikeTheHunter

Rats. Another mistake. I'll come back and do it later.
11:35 am
spellacked

started slow but all fell into place
11:36 am
UnikeTheHunter

Starting over after breakfast.
11:47 am
brianarn

I swear, I struggle more with medium than expert. There's apparently some medium level technique I'm just not familiar with or something. :D
11:48 am
UnikeTheHunter

I usually do mediums pretty well. This one is giving me trouble.
11:50 am
UnikeTheHunter

But so far no technique other than crosshatch, pairs, virtual crosshatch and intersections.
11:51 am
UnikeTheHunter

Oh, and one hidden pair.
11:52 am
UnikeTheHunter

Mistake. That wasn't a hidden pair and possibly the mistake I made first time around.
11:52 am
brianarn

I tell you what, I love the saved checkpoint feature for stuff like that :D
11:53 am
brianarn

I just hit a unique rectangle, don't see those often
11:54 am
UnikeTheHunter

Thanks, I'll look for one.
11:55 am
brianarn

That seems to have been the key -- the rest just kinda fell into place there. Nifty.
11:57 am
UnikeTheHunter

I see what might be a unique rectangle. But it has one corner with 4 greens and one with 3. I'm afraid to try to exploit it until I can understand it.
11:59 am
Minski

Done! Really tough for a medium. I had to use greenies. Only one guess but not super easy even after that.
11:59 am
brianarn

The one I saw, once the greens were cleaned pretty thoroughly with crosshatching and such, was very much a simple type 1 unique rectangle as described on brainbashers.com
11:59 am
UnikeTheHunter

DrWho scored it at a mere 18.
12:00 pm
brianarn

I have to admit, as mediums usually hit me, today didn't feel as hard as some recent mediums, but I definitely was using greens.
12:05 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I've had a breakout, but without a unique rectangle.
12:06 pm
brianarn

Most of the time, when people say they found a unique rectangle, I usually don't but still make it okay -- it seems like most of the time, they're just a speed technique if you happen to see one. That was my case, as it solved the whole thing for me just about after that.
12:07 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I'm seeing a remote pair, first one I've ever found.
12:08 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Oh, wait. That's not a remote pair after all.
12:09 pm
brianarn

I feel like I'm still learning that strategy - I'm still learning half of 'em though :D
12:10 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I'm breaking out again with a pair.
12:12 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Done. No advanced technique. Just hard to find easy ones.
12:14 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Now I'm within an inch of the top of the newbies. Moving up very slowly. The ceiling of newbies raises as my score raises.
12:15 pm
brianarn

I've noticed if I don't at least do five points worth of puzzle, there's little progress. :D
12:16 pm
brianarn

Rather, 5 points a day -- I'm about a third up thru regulars, trying to push to pro but it's slow going
12:16 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I seldom do archives, so I move very slowly.
12:23 pm
brianarn

I'm poking my way chronologically backwards through archives -- done all 2007 puzzles, and almost done with Dec '06
12:40 pm
brianarn

Geez - Dec 2 and 3 were hard, and 1 is expert -- way to start out a month :D
12:53 pm
bunnyvicious

go
1:15 pm
bunnyvicious

done
2:01 pm
brianarn

Pushing into november - only 259 puzzles left to go! hehe.
2:14 pm
helenkeller

go-
2:25 pm
helenkeller

rats - restart
2:33 pm
helenkeller

done
3:10 pm
Feather2

ok
7:39 pm
Pafunnygal

holey crud!
8:34 pm
torgone

Piece of pie . .
9:01 pm
mamabear

mud pie?
9:03 pm
torgone

I like pie . .
9:03 pm
mamabear

boysenberry
9:04 pm
torgone

I can't have much of the sugary kind any more, though . .
9:04 pm
mamabear

mud pie
9:07 pm
torgone

Mud pie it is then . .
9:09 pm
mamabear

all greened - easy as pie, huh?
9:21 pm
mamabear

yep mud pie
9:37 pm
mamabear

ok now I'm getting mad - started over twice
10:22 pm
Andy

wow... I just realized I haven't done today's yet... well, no time like the present...
10:41 pm
Andy

oh crud... made a mistake
10:52 pm
Andy

done