Morning all

gmorn

the game's afoot!

say what?

And here I was, thinking I had it at my fingertips!

heh

u guys putting the green up?

Manually, yes.

It is a hard, after all... (but I ahven't started yet)

ooooh yeah... green, green, everywhere

Only had 2 hours of sleep tonight. Better take alllll the help I can get.

Sprite, what do you mean manually? Is there a way to do it automatically that I don't know about?

oof, why so little sleep?

just got all the 5s, but otherwise the green is on its way up

fives, hmm, i'll go there. I am completely paralyzed with allergies, will use all the help I can get too!

hey, krys?

you can get the fives done twice as fast if you use 10s instead. (heh heh heh)

There is a script, that does it for you. You need to paste it in the url bar. But it puts in too many greens to my taste.
4s aren't too bad either, though not all completed yet.
I will paste the script here, if you like?

Sleep... welll.... staying up too late gaming doesn't prevent me from getting up early and get the kids going, lol. All my own fault.

thanks moedog :P

Sprite - yeah go ahead, I'll try it and see if I like it. Have we decided as a community that it is not cheating?

i'm here to help, krys. for suitably worthless definitions of "help", of course.

I miss out on every damn thing...

It's not, it's basic counting.

like in babble - using a solver is cheating, everything else is "research"...

lol

who invented the script?

krys u do babble too?

used to - stopped when this site opened - takes too much time - I'm more of a numbers person anyway

Sorry I can't remember whose it is, my bow of acknowledgement must go nameless...

javascript:for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value == '') {ClearTinySquares(i,j);}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value != '') {var tmp_value = grid[i][j].value;for (k=1; k<=9; k++) {for (l=1; l<=9; l++) {if (grid[k][l].value == '') {if ((Math.ceil(i/3) == Math.ceil(k/3) && Math.ceil(j/3) == Math.ceil(l/3)) || i == k || j == l) {grid[k][l]['mini'][tmp_value] = -1;}}}}}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) { for (j=1; j<=9; j++) { if (grid[i][j].value == '') { for (k=1; k<=9; k++) { if (grid[i][j]['mini'][k] != -1) grid[i][j]['mini'][k] = 1; }}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value == '') {for (k=1; k<=9; k++) {if (grid[i][j]['mini'][k] != 1) grid[i][j]['mini'][k] = 0;}}}}PopulatePuzzle(grid);void(0);


Ok. Type this into your browser bar when you start the puzzle and all the green numbers will be entered for you (you can also do it at any other time while playing)

how nifty!

thx sprite!

green numbers?

ah, very nice

yup, subcripts to write down everything that is going on in ur head

check out the help page

that's gonna take a LOT of tedium away!

I think it is very smart made. Hope the creator will make himself known somewhere today, lol.

I'm guessing it's Caderoux or Christopher, if I had to bet...

I'm guessing it's Caderoux or Christopher, if I had to bet...

I'm guessing it's Caderoux or Christopher, if I had to bet...

sorry, lag

Sounds about right indeed, all 3 times.

;)

lol

crap, screwed up somewhere

I hate it when that happens...

believe me, i hate it too

oh, i don't mind it so much - when it happens to andy, that is

LOL!

moedog's snappy with the comebacks today!

man, i'm just full of it tonight, aren't i?

apparently

Don't mind one bit. You're fun ;)

it's the script's fault... i didn't have the life sucked out of me by having to paint my screen green!

ah, better. sudoku with sorbet better than without

Nah... not at 7.30 am it isn't.

(frantically looking for the "download sorbet" button)

i bet it is

must be one of the benefits of upgrading

yeah, it's a pro feature ;)

Got to go for a bit and feed my little wild animals... err.... kids. Have fun! And cu tomorrow, for you will be finished before I get back here.

don't bet on it...

see you later! or sooner...

I blame the allergies... I *just* finished the fives

oh my

well i also screwed up somewhere, so who knows i might have done those 5s wrong

hopefully I'll fall into the "slowly but surely" category tonight, insead of just "slowly"

done... not too bad...

that's it, rub it in... ;)

If I cast Haste on you, does that still count as rubbing it in?

haha

no, that'll just have me making smart-alec comments faster - nobody wants that!

actually, i might

ah, dangit

did u screw up too?

high, wide, and mighty

betcha don't mind too much, andy :)

screwed up here, too

for u moedog, no, but shiroro, yes i do

i'm a living example of karma running over dogma....

haha, it happens to the best of us

finished! dragging my miserable sniffly self to bed. thanks for the fun - 'night, all.

'night, krys

gnight krys

almost 1am for me, i should hit the rack too

almost 2 am here

yikes

where are you guys?

missouri

atlanta

done - no guessing at all - wasn't too tricky

got it

agh. hit back by accident and lost everything :(

okay, i can't take this sudden influx of finishers! :) good night, all!

Done

wow, 2days just not my day is it?

And I'm finally starting to see those hidden triples :)

Maybe if you would do it during the day, instead of the night :) for me, it's 11:30 am

i always do it at 1 AM(when it changes for the day) and i do fine, but 2day just not my day

oh wll, Cya later anyways...

aighty, cya

there we go

got it!, cya guys later

yay, done

When all talk about the 5s and you keep finding 9s, you just KNOW you went wrong somewhere...

And yes, it's a start over for me!

been there ... done that.

I had 3 boxes saying "we need 4 or 7" in one block. Greedy tiles!

got it...

yeah!

out of here!

Morning All

hi to all

tee hee

arghh, I've been working on March 28's for days!

ohhh just started agine!!!! naaaarrr

March 28th is a pig took me on and off 2 weeks, decided to give up and then thought nah just one more go and blow me, I completed it

I think I finally got it!

YAY WTG peternl

woooo hoooo!

man what a sod!

that took about half a dozen differ forced chains eventually eliminating enough to get to a solution! Ouch!

I know it wasn't pretty

I guess it was rated "Expert" ;-)

How's todays?

not very easy:-)

thought I had it and then found I had goofed at the last hurdle, back to checkpoint

hmm, not an auspicious start...

in fact I just made the same type of mistake -- and I do not have any checkpoint :-(

ewwww unlucky MrOoijer

My own fault, I should turn pro soon

its good value

it definitely has its pro's

tee hee

bwahahahaha

yeah but I will have a holiday soon without internet, so i will miss some weeks anyway

but you can go back and finish them later...

ahhh but you can do the ones you have missed at a later date

what he said

yeah

hahaha

I only missed a couple of them until now

she, sorry, didnt notice the pink thing ;)

my little pink handbag ;o)

heaven help me, Big Borther or Survivor, what a choice, I think I'll have to smash the TV

hahaha is survivor coming back too, didn't realise

Its on here (Perth)

ahhhh ok BB is back this Thursday in the UK, can't wait, NOT

done it again grrrrr back to checkpoint

Arghh. Do you have Border Security as well?

hello everybody

LOL no only a firewall :o)

hey yul

;)

ok done:-)

WD

YAY for MrO

hmm, am I the only one who actually found this one easy?

*is done* It's quite straightforward.

sometimes they are easy when you make a mistake that happens to be a correct guess

I havent found it easy, although I havent got stuck yet

i may have made a mistake that made it easy, but it fell together nicely, better than yesterday

no forcing chains like I saw other people having to do

I agree, it was easier than yesterday

That doesn't bode well - I've got several days of backlog to do after working on that dratted Mar 28 one!

well, about 10 of those in a row were Easys... :)

i finished that Mar 28 one, cant see it in the archive, dont remember why it was so difficult

oh I can see it now, was too impatient

not too bad when I started from scratch, done and off to babble tTFN

that wasnt too bad

Evening all

done... That was an easy hard

hi all

Ooops. :(

that was OK

I think this one is pretty hard actually

Nailed that puppy!

Nailed that puppy!

well I had only 2 numbers filled in, made a guess in one of my naked pairs, then the whole thing fell

Man, do I have lag over here

That puzzle did not seem so tough

Hey hurshy

ACK!!! I finished the puzzle only to get a "somethin' ain't right" message. PLEASE tell me my solution was saved!

go

I really apologize for all the server problems lately, folks. There is a gremlin hiding on the server somewhere, and I've been pulling my hair out this past week or two trying to find it. No luck so far. :(

Hi Everyone

DR_God.... I have a question for ya...

i have dsl... if my roomie is on one comp and i'm on another, will we both be able to log in under our own names? i kept getting the "something ain't right" message when i tried

I can hardly believe I messed this one up earlier

Don't know where I went wrong

i didn't finish yesterday's. i got to two cells left and it was messed up somewhere

i was too sleepy. couldn't stay awake to do it

That's what I did this morning

done

there's hard, then again there's HARD, i think this one was hard (& if i could make the letters any smaller, i would,lol)

lol i'm stuck already, i can't concentrate

gl talk, it's not that bad at all

bye

thanks! Toodles

hi all

yay all done bye!

HI All! Is this a HARD hard?

I wouldn't say so, but I did mess it up on my first try. I seem to be missing things today.

hey David!!!! I wouldn't be too hard on yourself if you are doing it without checkpoints!!!!!

I completely missed something and was able to get down to two blank unsolvable cells. No x-wings or swordfish are needed to solve this, anyway.

I think I just started the avalanche!!!!!

i'm sooo stuck

:)

Where, sth?

just in general :P

i really aught to be warking anyway, not doing sudoku at work :P

*ought and *working

*ought and *working

Heh

Well, if you aren't familiar with the techniques at http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/hints.php take another look there

my avalance got stuck on a tree limb halfway down....

(chuckles)

At least that's funny, mamabear

just dug out

All done!!!!!!

Couldn't have done it without the helpful tips you taught me a few weeks ago, David!!! *wink*

Glad I was a help :)

Me too!!! Got to get back to work.... have a good day!

You too

hello all :)

hello scribble

hey! how has your day been?

OK ....well I'm just now doing sudoku. It can only go up from here.

ive got 2 numbers filled in.....the rest looks like christmas... :P

good luck

hey

hopefully i wont have to use ROFIF today...

hey renea!

waz up

nothin much here...you?

hey

is austin here

hey! you fixed your name.

nothin i am at school right at this moment

how r u onthe computer + at schho

?

scribbled--no

school*

cause i get on the computer at school

yeah

yeah

they let u?

grrr....sumthins wrong w/ the server

that sux!!! u have to get pro just to use the archives!!!!

that sux!!! u have to get pro just to use the archives!!!!

i didnt type that twice huh that is weird

yeah

i didnt type that twice huh that is weird

Dr_G waz on around lunch and said he had a problem and waz looking into it.

i didnt type that twice huh that is weird

hey scribbles mamma

hello

felicia dont tell her who i am!!!

she already knows

scott

poop

poop
!!!

poop
!!!

poop!

when soomthing turns red wat does that mean?

when soomthing turns red wat does that mean?

lol

new-beeeeeeee

like the row turns red when you enter a number?

mom be nice

ya

david M, you still around?

david M, you still around?

ber?

ya

does that mean u repeated a number?

does that mean u repeated a number?

yes exactly

do you know how to do these?

can u repeat diagonaly?

can u repeat diagonaly?

can u repeat diagonaly?

kinda?

yeah you can repeat diagonally....pls only hit enter once.

if you dont get it then read the help section....its at the top of the page next to the rankings and archives

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

ok i will only hit enter 1 time

dont be annoying pls.... :(

LOL

hey your thinkks it is funny

hey your thinkks it is funny

hey your thinkks it is funny

hey your thinkks it is funny

hey your thinkks it is funny

grrr....DONT HOLD IT DOWN EITHER!!!

your mom*]

l

l
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w/e

o

o

l

l

o

l

mom should we call hurshy on him?

Let him work on his sudoku and see if he can do it or not.

huh? i put 2 0's on the left most colem and it didnt turn red

how did you put zeros in?

dont just fill in numbers....use logic to make sure it will work, or else you'll get a bunch filled in and accidentally make a mistake.

oh i mean 2 2's

oh i mean 2 2's

oh.

aw do du

i got to go to base ball cy az l8er

what?

c-ya 2morrow! :)

bye bye yallz

bye

bye mom im gonna go read a book. do ya wanna walk today?

later

so ya wanna walk later?

ok well bye

yes we will walk later

how's everyone today?

Fine, now that I've finished!

Woohoo!

That one was lengthy, but it wasn't a stumper.

Why is a hard now only worth 3 points instead of 5?

i think expert is worth 5

Oh, that is right. I forgot about expert.

hey is this one hard today?

this one is really tough, I can only find about eight numbers

i have 9 so far - you do know about the marking of possibles right?

yeah, I think it was yout that originally told me about that, hurshy :)

ok :) hard to remember everyone i run into here

lol, no worries, i have exactly ten, and im completly stuc... :(

i haven't started marking yet. like to see how much i can get without.

aha, there's that tenth!

I found another

that's good

if you stay one step ahead of me i'll always know i can find it and i won't have to mark

lol, ... 13

but you haven't marked?

but Its quite possible there is a mistake somewhere

I botched it the first time through and resorted to marking very quickly the second time..

botched! david mitchell, were you violating hurshy's first rule of sudoku???

I forget what it is.

Probably!

SUDOKU SHOULD ONLY BE DONE ON A CLEAR HEAD

Im on a bit of a role now

roll

lol, my bad

oops sorry, i'm getting into that habit to help people in babble know why their words don't work

Ah, yes, I think I did violate it. I kept placing numbers and being surprised to find that there was already one of those in that group. But I kept playing anyway.

haha

*beats david's hand with ruler*

Ouch!..

now maybe you'll remember.

hurshy is a meeeeeean teacher

Well I'll remember THAT at least. :P

i not weally mean. no no i just pwetend.

yay, I got it. i think thats the first hard iv completed on this site

how are you doing hurshy?

oh sorry distracted by chat not got any more yet

Im gonna head over to babble. good luck. iot gets easy once you find only a few more

ty chrissie. i shall endeavor to keep that in mind.

You solved it without marking, chrissie?

no she marked

hi

awfly mean of her i'd say.

bunger, yul. this is my bunger bear.

i am back after the hottest day of this year :)

little american-botching-french-and-weird-about-her-
cats humor there...

Okay, I was feeling some awe there.

i'm going to do my darndest though david.

You will receive my awe if you do.

*cries*

What's wrong?

i....*sniff*...th-th-thought i h-h-h-HAD your awe...*sniff*

Oh... sorry... but you certainly have my respect!

hmph.

:(

hurshy playing of course

Of course

i think i can i think i can...

I think I could eat

I think I will eat

Let me know if you do it, hurshy

i AM eating

easily done

eating?

ill share my pasta with you hurshy, ive got extra!

mmmm, what kind of sauce

garden veggie with garlic + sweet peppers...and a touch of cinnamon to add a hint of sweetness...
and its fettuccine florentine :)

intriguing. i'd probably drop the cinnamon myself, i'm not very exotic... but sounds yummy :)

its just about a pinch on the whole jar ;)

bon appetit & good night

but see, you have an exotic flower (night yul!) and i have a domestic short-hair. that's the difference.

yeah, but the exotic flower was taken by the ex boyfriend, so really, its a stinky flower!

flower... taken... sorry.... :(

nono, the picture...it was his flower anyway...heh

oh.

man, that was so tasty im licking the bowl!!

wow. i'm having issues with this one!

dang, if only dr. nut were here

who?

long story.

shall i be limer?

Nailed that one!

Rank me, baby.

lol

that cracks me up every time

me too :) how are you btwrt, any news??

yeah, none of it good

chat?

hard was a little too easy

Try March 28's if you want a harder one...

peter, did you finally get that one solved? I needed a hint, but I finally got it

you know what I like...when i just guess cause i'm stuck.. and get it right