go

haha, I'd originally read it as easy

thought it was taking a bit too much brain work

Not exactly...

29 by cross hatching

But it doesn't look too hard yet.

Going scarily easy for me, which likely means it's all gonna blow up soon :)

looking for the key right now

Don't think I've ever taken an expert this far with no greens before. I'm usually a weenie.

yeah, it starts very easy

it's the 30th block that gets you ;)

Count again, I have 30.

oops

same here

I count 31.

Or maybe it's 29?

it was the 3 in the lower middle grid

I can't count this late at night, and I probably shouldn't be starting an expert.

haha

ok, think I got it - xy chaining with the new 3

Time to go green/

and done

just one trick to it doc ;)

night

Looks like it should be easy, I'm just not as fast to see the tricks as you.

Ok, I think I see it.

Done! Had to use greens, but remarkably quick and easy for an expert :)

Done

Hmm... I need to learn a new trick because I'm stuck.

Almost done, but stuck.

Difficulty score 47. Not very hard for an expert.

hiya folks

hi moe

start

start?

30 filled, pairs and triples left, stuck...

just starting. Looks promising!

It's really pretty easy up to this point, mostly just looking for singles.

I am having a slow day then, it is going, but not at all fast.

and done. Not really hard, but I did not find it easy either.

Good job! I'm not sure what I'm missing, and I'm sure I could finish quickly by guessing. But I hate to guess...

Solved it easily by following a chain in my head until it proved wrong, then picked the other value from the pair in the first cell. Seems an awful lot like guessing....

nice ending :-)

go

done... wow that was quick!

I did use greens the whole way through, though

done. one guess

hello

hey

yes. need green

very little left. but where to go now?

done

Go.

Done, one guess.

28. Going green.

aside from one guess, basic stuff and some intersections

not so bad indeed

not much patience today, resorted to greens pretty quickly.

One wrong guess that was easily corrected. Everything fell into place after that.

done no greens - hi to all sudokuers and babblers !

argh.. had to use greens..

finally got it after 3 redos.........

go

done, green. one guess

waaaaaaahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

done. NO green. just brain. *proud*

way to go hurshy

oh, i meant "go" also :-)

done. g+r autogreens. one guess.

congrats

how'd you do with no greens? what'd you see?

i got a lot of things but then also a...

oh, whatchamacallit - xy-wing?

in your head? i couldn't find an xy-wing with greens there. must be tired or something. was it obvious?

i don't know, maybe i'm extra un-tired

I'm having a hard time focusing on the grid at all! Must be super-tired!

it was in R4C4, R4C8, R6R8, leading to a conclusion regarding R6C6 and thus placement in R5C6.

well, dang. i'm impressed hurshy.

i may have the wrong name for it, i get mised up about xwing ywing etc

had to make one guess but otherwise found this to be a pretty easy "Expert".

I don't get this xwing, ywing thing either. If A=B and B=C then A must = C.

I am not sure how expert that was, I made a guess, but I looked through several options and all seemed to work