Hi everyone!

hello

hi : )

Last time i came here i couldn`t solve "easy" now im almost done in 5 min with "hard"

welcome to sudoku

i'm stuck :(

again, i say the same thing

lol

Ahhh, I was beginning to miss the Green and Black blur the grid became as I work the more difficult ones...there it is like it always was!

i was doing so good, then now i have to start over, yay for sudoku

and 2nd try w/out the subscripts!, i win!

I, for one, welcome our subscript overlords.

morning/evening everyone1

morning ginger

oooh a hard one today!

yeah... just going to start it while the kids eat breakfast

well I have a row pretty quickly....

I don't, but I have a few numbers

woohoo! a column!

I don't have a column yet but it's coming along nicely

i'm stuck :-(

what row did you get?

ahah! spotted something :-)

3rd from bottom

the one that starts with 7 or the one under that?

1 under it

thanks

I do not have enough to fill that one in yet

done!

everything suddenly fell into place

well done MaW

first hard done without guessing! practice really does help

this was not a hard in my opinion

wow that did fall in to place really fast

I thought it was pretty hard

it took me a while

hmm

maybe i was just lucky then, but i feel like the difficulty ranking of the puzzles is sort of obscure sometimes

I wonder sometimes if some of them are easier for different people

like the sort of match your technique or something

I think you're right shortstop

love the name by the way!

DANE1

OOPS dONE!

done :-)

took me a while though

hi!!

Done, wasn't easy though...

Hey folk. Nice hard one today, I see..

Wow.

That took a while.

I thought that was easier than yesterday's "easy"

yeah,i think they they mixed "easy" with "hard"

Hi all

hello everybody

finished

well done.. I had to start over

It was definetly not hard

I mujst have done something wrong

i often start over

there is one place in this number with one possible number which is not obvious straight away. When you find it, puzzle is easy to finish.

excuse my English :)

thanks

don't forget to fill in all 'only possible' numbers first

I was just wondering how old are u people?I mean i am 14.

Ah, the impertinence...I mean inquisitiveness of youth !

hi peeps

Alright if u dont want to say dont.........just asking.

well im 24

sorry, forgot the ;-)

thank u -tigger1980

welcome nasta

u should be in school

ok, time to take another shot at it

mine is not showing'

actualy right now in my country its 9:15

ok nasta

PM -forgot to add that

west australia?

Hello all & good luck

geeze.... 20 minutes!

this is a pretty easy "hard"

Not easy for me, but no restarting and no guessing. Overall I'm very happy with my effort. On to the next free puzzle.

morning

well I spoke too soon... something went wrong here....

hellooooo

hellllllllLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hi

hi sammi

your my sister?

heck no

okay...starting over

hi

ok i am going

where are you going?

to clase i am in school

great! Have a good day then.

where are you from

New York City

that is cool i have been there before

Where are you?

but not in the city

michigan

Cool, I've been there too

where at?

My daughter was in a competition held at CMU

how old are you?

don't go there... LOL

haha

I am 48

oh jw g2g!

um... thank you...I think?

at least he didn't go a/s/l :P

well, explicitly :P

that's okay..I like being 46, but 49 will just be WAY over the hill

oops 48...stupid bi-focals

I'm turning 30 this year, so I'm already aware of my own mortality. heh

you're mortal?

admittedly, yes, including all frailties therein

I used to be a blonde, but I traded up for immortality...

I think the salesman may have lied about that...

did he have red horns and a pointy tail, maybe wielding a rather stylish pitchfork? :P

j/k

;-)

OK back to puzzling. This one is kicking me in the you-know-what

yes, I know...I was whizzing along and then SMAK...pink lines

good luk

thanks. The lack of sixes in this puzzle bugs the snot out of me. Talk to you later!

not many 4s either

later

yay...done. bye all.

is there a way to erase just one of the little green numbers?

Shift+click

I believe you just Shift+Click whichever number you want to eliminate and voila...

thanks!

ack! last night I printed out a puzzle from earlier in the week, and I just finished it thinking I was working on today's! what a waste of time...

(and no wonder it didn't seem like a "hard")

Hey there, Kris

errr

Krys

Krysten?

I'm a little slow today

hi! just bouncing in and out - getting the right versioon of the puzzle

will do it on paper today. how's you?

I'm alright. Puzzle isn't too bad yet (I take my time with it).

gotta jet - catch you later!

Have fun. :)

Ugh...the April 12 expert puzzle is killing me. Trying to apply advanced methods, but so far I haven't broken it.

There was an expert one that was unsolvable without guessing, but I don't recall the date of it

Some of them have required chains/coloring

This is the first time I've really made an effort to apply those techniques. Found an x-wing that helped remove one number. Haven't tried coloring yet. For now, I'll skip to another puzzle and come back to it later.

I can't use coloring without prompting yet

Perry, I think there was a chain in that one too...I didn't see it until I guessed though.

or else I'm remembering the other expert one.

Thanks Parsec, I'll try that again next time. It was my first time attempting a chain, so I could easily have missed it.

I'm still pretty bad at seeing them myself =)

Reading and trying all those methods had my head swimming, I had to try another and ended up on one with an easy rating ;-)

I try to teach myself one every so often. I can't hold more than that in my head until I'm familiar with it.

that's interesting...is this puzzle supposed to have a unique solution?

*sigh* nevermind, I screwed up is how that happened...

oooh messy puzzle

hola parsec!

If anybody's interested, here's what I have it narrowed down to.... red numbers are naked pairs, greens are possibilities.

http://www.timmyponline.com/r
andom/sudoku.jpg

that's about where I'm stuck at too

hey evanadine, sorry I missed you.

swordfish

i'm finally beginning to understand it

for tp 17 you forgot to remove the 4's in column one

hey everybody :)

Whee

lol david

It broke quite quickly

Hey, btwrt

i haven't been on here in days ... i feel so out of the loop

I haven't seen hurshy in a while

or most of the other chatty folks

Hi David... did you finish?

Yes, I did, macuser

good job!! :)

Thanks

How are you doing with it?

just started

Ah, okay

yeah - i was travelling up to MI to visit family, so i was away a few days

Maybe others are traveling as well

could be, could be

hurshy is probably over at Babble - it's a monster grid today

I haven't tried Babble yet

I don't think I need another addiction

i tried it, but was able to avoid addiction. it takes up more time than i could possibly devote to it

lol, i hear that - i'm thinking one of mine has got to go ;)

my issue with babble is that I *could* finish it, but I never have time. So I get mad at it for cutting my score down. =)

valid point, parsec

of course grids like todays...arguable whether I could ever finish. But I like to pretend I could.

i managed to finish it but it took some time to do it... and nothing else gets done in the meantime

yeah, that too.

sudoku isn't nearly as time-consuming

sort of...*looks sheepish*

thanks Andre.... I always miss something simple like that

hey macuser? Is that a picture of your cat?

yes, Laura, it is :)

is it a specific breed?

no - he is a rescued cat but i think he must have Russian Blue in him

I have a cat that looks just like yours

i'm trying to find a picture

maybe they're siblings ;)

lol

seperated at birth

lol, yeah - how old is yours? mine is 8 years old

I'm not sure... we've had her for about 2 to 2/1-2 years now.. she was a stray too

they make the best cats, i think

all of my cats have been rescued cats

this one i snatched off of death row

cool. Here's a link for my cat. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/laurab
ee8057/myspace/sumichan2.jpg

it said the image for that link is no longer there :(

hmmm

did you get the entire address up? You might have to type in the second line

let me try again

wow! she's gorgeous! are those the real color of her eyes?

I believe so... sometimes the glash catches strange colors

she does look a lot like mine

:)...lol

woohoo! done!! not too hard of a 'hard' ... pretty straightforward

lucky... I'm stumped

gotta go - good luck one and all :)

ok now i'm finished. i'm on a roll considering that i haven't done one of these in about a week besides yesterday's easy one.

finished the first hard since at least a week ago.

grrr.. i hate this computer.

have you guys read the book eragon?

not I, what's it about?

about a dragon.

it's like lord of the rings in understandable language

who's the author?

but don't get me wrong because i love lord of the rings too

um... a guy who wrote it when he was like 15.

I thought it was understandable...but I understand how other people think it wasn't. =)

christopher paolini

it's hard to get into the fellowship, but after that, i loved lord of the rings

My dad read them to me when I was little. I always loved them after that.

i didn't really like the fact that the movies were all fighting, because the books are not like that.

my mom read narnia to me when i was little, go figure, i love them!

those I read myself. During math class =)

hehe.... i read eragon in math class.

hurshy would be very disappointed in us.

i love that book - i cannot wait for the third one to come out

the eragon series you mean?

yes, sorry. i also love chronicles

why would hershy be disapointed in us?

eragon is awesome!!!!!!!

Hurshy is a math teacher.

and chronicles

that makes sense.

i'm sure she would be more entertaining than my math teacher however.

oh yeah.....hi!

hi!

Hi scribble.

lol hi scrib

ooooh yay a hard!

today is not a good day for me and hards.

for some reason, it is harder to think logically with a stuffy nose.

yeah i finally had to guess

hmmm....we'll call it stuffy nose sindrome

awww sorry parsec. hope you fell better soon!! :)

is that how you spell syndrome, sindrome or whatever?

thanks, Scrib.

*feel*

syndrome.

hey you know what that reminds me of?!?

the incredibles!

have you guys seen that movie?

no

yep

heh, it's entertaining.

should i?

it's worth seeing

probably.

my son loved that one, since he was about 6 months old. he had an incredibles first birthday party

the funniest thing is the little short that shows what the baby did to the babysitter while they were gone

my favorite disney is mulan have you guys seen it?

that part isn't on the vhs so i haven't seen it

i like that one too :D but the little mermaid may still be my favorite ...

my sister says it's very funny

yeah i loved that movie when i was little

i hate little mermaid

aww! calvin & hobbes :)

I loved it because my family was a lot like that. Not so much with the superpowers, but the chaos was really well-written.

miller - do you know what hobbes is made of?

it freaked me out when i was little, and the paranoia is still there!

no but i'd like to

dragonflies and katydids but mostly chewed up little kids

oh, i've heard that one before.

;) he told calvin that when calvin asked him about it (based on the 'snips and snails and puppy dog tails' for little boys)

yeah gottcha.

i have read that one.

i dont like this one

my favorite is weirdos from another planet. have you read that one?

nope

i've read most of them, if not all. they're all very good :) i always liked the ... what was it ... scientific progress goes 'boink'

definitely find it.

when calvin turns himself into a tiny tiger like hobbes

heck yess! we've got at least 4 copies of that book at my house.

deranged mutant killer snowmen was good, too

yeah.

I liked the snowmen.

i like all the camping trips they go on.

especially when it rains alot

lol

Also I am finally done. Have a good evening everyone!

or when calvin dropped the camera in the water.

bye parsec and read eragon'

^*^*^*^*^*^FIREWORKS*^*^*^*^*^*^*

yay parsec! +^+^+^+ sparklers +^+^+^+

yes please read eragon

...wow, that *is* a little overwhelming when you get the ovation. And I'll look for the book.

i always liked the funny relationship calvin has with susie

yeah. when she first moves there, he likes her

but then it turns into a typical little boy in elementary school thing.

right

hmmm......please explain calvin and hobbes?

like what is it?

dont yell at me

the greatest comic ever.

it's a comic strip about a boy and a tiger

it's very funny, it's all about how the little boy sees the world, and it's spot on

in fact, i need to reread them because i have a little boy now and it will probably give me some good perspective ;)

yeah and it's so cool. especially when he turns into, what does he call it, mr stupendous or stupendous boy or something.

oh ok now i know so i'll go look for it. sounds pretty funny.

and then he gets locked in a locker at school

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
storyId=4968065&sourceCode=gaw

what is that?

http://www.ucomics.com/calvinandhobbes/

thanks krys!

welcome

they're best when you immerse yourself in a book for an entire sunday afternoon

ok, i've decided to go play boggle, but not babble or even on the internet. just with some friends. bye everyone!

speaking of immersing myself in a book, i have a 524 page book to finish so c-ya!

bye miller!

FINALLY! this one was a beast.

Oh oh, I just started!

well artlady I took about 8 passes at this thing before I finally figured it out. I must be getting really slow in my old age.

Oh gee, and here I thought I spend a few, stress-reducing minutes before I drove home...

well, YOU might. I can't believe the trouble I have solving these sometimes. grrrr.

I did an easy the other day I had to start over on. Twice. Quite embarassing!

Only twice? And you were embarrassed? sheesh. I should cancel my membership.

It was an easy and someone had mentioned in the log it only took them a few minutes.

I shouldn't have let it get to me!

hmm. I finished one about 3 days ago in under 20 minutes and thought I was doing great

You know, I had a short run where every single one of these I started, I finished. In the last few days my brain seems to have frozen up and I can't solve ANYthing!

no worries darleen, its not just you -- i SWEAR theyre getting tougher!

I think so too

I've been very lucky lately. I've finished most without guessing.

Yeah, evan, even the "easy" ones.

Well, it keeps us out of trouble!

My excuse for not making dinner..."just a few more numbers..."

Yeah but it keeps me away from EVERYthing. I think that's why hubby is insisting we take a week and go to Arizona.

Of course, that gets me INTO trouble!

any one see my last reply? It seems to have evaporated...

any one see my last reply? It seems to have evaporated...

any one see my last reply? It seems to have evaporated...

oh great. double posts.

triple posts

I swear I only pressed "return" ONCE

I'm having issue with this todays puzzle. anyone have any wise words to pass along to help me reach enlightenment with this puzzle?

hello all

Im just zooming in for a few minutes before dinner is on...LauraBee, I started with the 8s and am having decent luck. 7s are next for me, since I see one.

hi, blue

that's ok darleen........nice icon helps us over look that! lol

hey there.

thanks

thanks for the help bookwyrmish....it really helped!

easy today

I was away from my keyboard, blueskies, sorry for not responding. I'm glad it helped!

!

hi all

hallo peterni

I hope its not too hard, I dont have much time

well, peternl, I'm not a speed demon, so can't tell you. I haven't solved it yet...

making progress slowly

finally, things are starting to cascade!

yep

yay!

starting... now.

blech, starting over

finally, done! Waaay too much time on it, of course! I'm getting back to the 3 dimensional world...

I've started this one twice, and ended up with the same problem both times -- too many sixes

Can I offer any hints before I go, spellacked?

bookwyrmish -- not really, I'm normally pretty good at this, I'm just not fully concious today

Ahh, well then, I wish you enlightenment, or at least a few deep, calming breaths and some chocolate! Nite all.

nite!!

I've started this one more than once, as well.

Ahh, Done! That took all day. Except for work, of course. ;-)

I'm surprised...this "hard" one took less than 15 minutes. Strange...

has anyone else had problems with the archives?it let me get in to april 24 but not the 23rd...

Finally got back to it and finished...