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Difficulty: Expert Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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CHAT LOG for Tuesday, February 26, 2008

12:02 am
trueheart11

go
12:10 am
trueheart11

done. no greens
12:41 am
WHB

Done
3:06 am
yul

hello everybody
3:06 am
drwho

Hello yul
3:07 am
yul

hey drwho you are up late :)
3:08 am
drwho

Yes, I can't sleep.
3:08 am
yul

me too. I am up early today
3:09 am
drwho

So you can get an early start on today's expert.
3:09 am
yul

yes
3:11 am
drwho

You may need it.
3:11 am
yul

is it difficult?
3:11 am
drwho

I think so.
3:12 am
yul

ok
3:14 am
drwho

Difficulty score 57.
3:21 am
yul

eh. :/ made a mistake. starting over
3:32 am
tsianami

go
3:50 am
martom

starting over for the 3rd time!!
3:59 am
martom

Yeeeeeeeeeeees finally
4:20 am
kixx

go
4:29 am
yul

finally finished with greens
4:29 am
yul

have a great day everybody
4:37 am
danhnguyenkjk

play/
4:42 am
danhnguyenkjk

go
5:13 am
angieplumptit

This silence brought to you by Hurshy
5:14 am
Andy

go
5:32 am
franebrown

greens and one correct guess
5:36 am
eyeman

I think I'm done
5:39 am
brittlefish.com

go
5:40 am
eyeman

Yup. Done. A typical not-too-difficult Expert
5:40 am
eyeman

Watch out for those Mediums, though.
5:45 am
Andy

done
5:46 am
Andy

Used the Cayman Frump Recursive Scan coupled with the Reverse Avogadro Semiquaver Loopback Method (patent pending).
5:47 am
kixx

done, with greens, pretty tricky at the end
6:18 am
brittlefish.com

done. auto g+r. one bad guess. two good guesses.
6:47 am
smooth_pappa

start
6:55 am
smooth_pappa

done... I did make one guess... a lucky correct guess on te first try
7:10 am
spreadeagle

17 filled, going green
7:32 am
spreadeagle

I, too, needed one guess.....
9:18 am
ypsigirl

done
9:42 am
Inge

done with greens and two guesses
9:47 am
gman

16 filled in and stuck
10:36 am
RodeoRogue

go
10:38 am
gman

if anyone's interested in the solution without guessing, use scanraid and import the puzzle. It used Xwing, unique rectangles, XYZ wing , and then an XY chain to break the puzzple open. Very cool
10:38 am
RodeoRogue

pause
10:59 am
RodeoRogue

play on
11:03 am
RodeoRogue

going green
11:10 am
Limer

oh, fecal matter....
11:19 am
Readhead

weee, expert!
11:20 am
Readhead

(I bet I won't be saying "weee" in 15 minutes or so...)
11:20 am
Limer

Oh, you may be saying wee in 15 minutes, but not after 30.
11:20 am
Readhead

lol
11:22 am
Limer

You will be saying stuff like (expletive deleted) and (expletive deleted).
11:23 am
Readhead

I'm sure that's true. I might be wishing I was doing my work instead of my puzzle at that point, how sad!
11:23 am
Limer

Yeah, that is sad.
11:24 am
Readhead

oh well, here's to the next 30 minutes anyway :)
11:24 am
Limer

Enjoy it, it won't last.
11:26 am
Limer

Got 15 so far
11:39 am
Readhead

yeah, ok, that was wayyy closer to 15 minutes than 30. Luckily, I kind of enjoy my job. See you guys
11:40 am
Limer

Ha
11:40 am
Limer

Nailed that puppy!
11:40 am
Limer

Rank me, baby!
11:40 am
Limer

Used greens extensively.
11:40 am
Limer

Used greens extensively.
11:40 am
Limer

Nix theme muzak.
12:53 pm
dasch

argh stuck.. what am i missing?
12:56 pm
dasch

Don't want to guess since I don't have checkpoints (yes I am cheap)
1:16 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Wow, an Expert. I still haven't finished Thursday's Expert.
1:26 pm
sandbox74

ooh.. expert!!! commence
1:49 pm
UnikeTheHunter

21 and stuck.
1:51 pm
sandbox74

done greens.. had to do nishio.. twice
1:51 pm
UnikeTheHunter

What's nishio?
1:51 pm
Alessandi

evening go...
1:54 pm
sandbox74

Unike: it's the method of making an "educated" guess
1:55 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Really educated? Or just a hunch?
2:08 pm
Alessandi

halfway through, my fav shows on so saving for ron.
2:25 pm
UnikeTheHunter

22.
3:23 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Done. Used greens. But I didn't guess. I used the back of an envelope to study some lines with two or three. And I linked two loops of different numbers.
3:35 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Rats. The technique I discovered in today's Expert doesn't work in Thursday's Expert.
5:23 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Ah, at last, after many days, I did Thursday's Expert without guessing. I think I may be improving.
5:27 pm
Montreal13

done... with lots of green - bye all !
5:36 pm
gman

if anyone's interested in the solution without guessing, use scanraid and import the puzzle. It used Xwing, unique rectangles, XYZ wing , and then an XY chain to break the puzzple open. Very cool
6:15 pm
Alessandi

I haven't a clue what any of that is , but lets go again...
6:23 pm
Alessandi

Done no green, I had saved it halfway through so I was on the right track anyway, I found I got off to a flier and the top middle was the key square for me, plain sailing from there more or less. Better late than never.
8:07 pm
helenkeller

go
8:40 pm
helenkeller

greens
10:42 pm
abmoraz

start
11:13 pm
abmoraz

done
11:13 pm
abmoraz

w/ greens