Done, no guessing

hi punam,

hi ketan

ready ..go

hi

WHat does becoming a pro get you in this game?

a very difficult medium today!

for me

for me also

i finished by using greens and also guessing which i think is cheating

finished

Xanica: checkpoints, savegames and most importantly: access to ALL the puzzles in the archives!

go

ah smooth_pappa, let me stay a little longer please! ;)

lol good morning :)

good morning to you too, have fun :)

seems like a slow starter

same for me

Difficulty score 20. Challenging.

Technically, cross-hatching and virtual cross-hatching are the only techniques needed. I found a helpful hidden pair.

in that case I will finish it in time

durnit... haad to start over

argh... poor you

ooh... think I just got some breakthrough

and done!

with a little green help in the middle

wtg pappa!

I think that made my brain bleed ;)

finished

and yay ketan

Finished

and Shameel too

it should be expert level!!!!

hey sprite, you still online?
do my eyes deceive me?

hey Krys10! Half and half... am doing too many things at a time atm.

how have you been?

not very well, actually. Severe burnout and some other problems. And you?

oh, I'm sorry to hear that. work burnout?

things are going well here

having a baby in the fall

that's how it started, but then we discovered that it has roots in ptss.

wow Krys! Congratulations! Hope all will go well and smoothly for you :)

wow, big stuff, ptss. sorry to hear it. hope you have good support?

thanks. so far so good, on my end

great :)
Yeah, very good physiotherapist who does psychosomatic physio, and an average psychotherapist because my employer thinks he is great. But the support from friends and my husband is wonderful.

good, i'm really glad you've got a team in place.

i've heard really interesting things about psychosomatic physiotherapy - not so common in this country, from what I've heard.

it is necessary, no way I can handle this alone. My own doctor does a great job too.

glad you are hanging in there

you know me, lol... they don't call me a pitbull for nothing, I never give up. Not with babble, not with sudoku and definitely not with life.

not the least bit surprised to hear you say that :)

I bet.... it takes one to know one ;)

heh

and to proof this point: sudoku done :)

good on you! I've been distracted on this one but I will tackle it later today

breakfast calls

I must be off now, I hope you have a terrific pregnancy and a smooth birth and a wonderful child :)

Go.

thanks sprite - glad we got to catch up a bit - my thoughts are with you!

thank you, and vice versa :D

Stuck.

Me too. I'm missing something........

going green

Green didn't help me much.

how about green & more coffee?

Oh, UDdmas, You're a choral composer. Me too. Have any music posted someplace?

If you google "O Virtus Sapientiae" you should get a hit from UMEA in sweden

How about you, Hunter? Are you posted?

I have a website, Offertories.com. It is almost all keyboard music. Just one vocal solo. If you need church keyboard music, you should get my Cumberland Hymns, real cheap. But I've been discouraged and haven't put the free music into better form. It is all GIF files that don't print very well any more that most people have higher screen resolution.

I put some into public on CPDL, but the site is down right now. But it can be accessed via cached pages sometimes. A local group here may do a piece or two in the fall. I do almost all a cappella works.

Some medium,,, Hah! This is an expert, make no mistake.

I'm also working on choral music. I had a lot on my computer, almost finished. But in retaliation for erasing his pornography, my son reformated my hard drive and I lost it all. I still have paper versions, all marked up. But I haven't fixed it up.

I'm with you, eyeman

Glad I'm not alone, spreadeagle.

ouch. I have most of my stuff on two different computers just in case (I lost my laptop's files when I had to have the dc-jack replaced).

I haven't found any isolated pairs yet...this one is tough

Anyway, on with the day, fiinally got it with a headache

oh, take two easy sudokus & call in the morning?

Good advice, Udbmas. Will do.

AHA! How did I miss that?

UDbmas, I looked and the music and listened to the MP3. It's great. Unfortunately I couldn't do both, so the music quit.

I hear ya... I can't do music and sudoku either...too much conflicting math

Thanks for the listening though!

Done.

I've got one MP3 posted on my website. Unfortunately I compressed it too much. It sounded okay on my computer. But on other computers it has funny timbre added.

Good work spreadeagle. I'm about ready to give it a rest.

Tip: Look at the 8's.

I have had some problems there also. Some of the stuff I compressed had feedback noise on other computers.

yes, there are lot's of 8's...

mine are all green ones

There is a well-hidden way to eliminate some of them, opening up the 7's.

yes, got one! thanks

I'm still no green. I see only one eight and a few virtuals.

mine is opening...bottom right block was the key here

Hunter, if you can do this one without green you are MUCH better at this than me......

I usually do mediums no green. But this one is giving me trouble.

I get about 50% w/o green, not this one.

did Dr Who rate it yet?

20

Yes, he said 20. He said mediums should be done with virtual crosshatch, but he himself used a pair.

finally got it...now on to the weekend's... The 8's tip was great, thanks eagle.

You're welcome.

now I will see how Saturday's was

Okay, I think I see the hidden pair. But I'll get breakfast now and come back.

easy.

go

done, minimal green

Intereseting. "Everyone" agrees puzzles on Saturday and Sunday were easy. I scored them 21 and 22 respectively. "Everyone" (including me) agrees today's puzzle is harder, but I scored it 20. My computer scoring system has its limits.

DrWho, maybe your program doesn't score a virtual missing digit high enough. Those are hard to spot no green.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's stuck on this "medium"

Although I believe myself to be lazier and less disciplined than most of you...

I think I got past the first big hangup with a doubly virtual missing digit in the lower right, no green. Things went well after that, but I'm hung up again.

I just dropped in to see if I found anything new after some breakfast, but so far nothing - going back to house projects, back later.

a-ha! intersection. tedious work pays off.

Seemed easy to me.....

UTH - you are right, I make no distinction on how I find a missing digit. However, for this puzzle the program claims not to have used that technique! I can't figure that out. I used the same trick in the lower right hand block that you did.

Done, no green. Feeling proud but mentally exhausted.

All hail the king........

Thanks.

oh man, that was like pulling teeth!!

I used virtual crosshatching to open the puzzle. It was easy after that

Today is the 500th puzzle! Neat!

so it is!!! congrats to all who have finished all 500

For the next 500 or just catching up on the first 500, I offer this:

http://www.pauls-pc-repair.com/sudoku/
solver/

wow this is hard today... is my brain dead?

Take heart dorens, you are not alone in struggling with this one.

thanks. that helps!

starting over... ugh!

go

finally. a lucky guess. hi helen and good luck.

hey dorens, wd!!

you'll have an easier go of it. you are faster at this than I. I don't give up, but I don't know all the naked, missing, virtual stuff that they talk about

i don't know what that stuff means either, lol

good to hear that. but still, i've noticed your times and you are quick at this. . haven't seen you much at babble.. you still there frequently?

yep, i'm babbling, just not chatting much

sometimes, like today, not so quick here, stuck

that'

that's cool... sometimes, I am not in the chatting mode... sometimes it's good though. no this one did seem particularly heinous. i'll leave you to it, hope it's not too bad for you. see you around

bye dorens :)

done

sheesh - finally, needed greens

start