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Difficulty: Medium Saturday, April 26, 2008

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CHAT LOG for Saturday, April 26, 2008

12:00 am
trueheart11

go
12:20 am
trueheart11

done. no greens
12:30 am
richboy109

easy start hard finish
12:30 am
WHB

Done
12:40 am
eyeman

Done. Bring on Sunday's!
1:04 am
richboy109

only need 250 to move up a level lol
3:24 am
drwho

Difficulty score 26. No green.
5:16 am
spreadeagle

Done, no greens, but well hidden at the end.
5:34 am
kixx

go
5:44 am
kixx

done, no greens, pretty tricky at the end
7:45 am
angieplumptit

Let us pray.
7:48 am
katmama

done - no greens
8:09 am
sandbox74

commence
8:16 am
sandbox74

terminate.. no greens... that wasn't bad at all
8:16 am
sandbox74

have a great Saturday!!
8:24 am
yul

hello everybody
8:36 am
brittlefish.com

go
8:40 am
brittlefish.com

pause
8:51 am
yul

finished. no greens.
8:52 am
yul

have a nice day everybody
9:09 am
brittlefish.com

continue
9:24 am
brittlefish.com

done. no green.
9:25 am
brittlefish.com

nice puzzle.
9:25 am
ypsigirl

done
9:26 am
brittlefish.com

have a good Saturday everyone.
10:19 am
Inge

done with greens, strange twist at the end
11:29 am
brittlefish.com

go 2/8/2008 again (browser issue last time) - easy
11:35 am
smooth_pappa

start
11:35 am
smooth_pappa

morning brittle
11:35 am
brittlefish.com

howdy smooth
11:44 am
brittlefish.com

done. no green.
11:44 am
smooth_pappa

good job!
11:44 am
brittlefish.com

have a good day again.
11:44 am
smooth_pappa

see ya
11:45 am
smooth_pappa

done... no greens
12:34 pm
Inge

Could someone explain what a naked triple is? Dr Who said there was one in yesterday's puzzle and helped solve the puzzle. Will it help me as well?
1:27 pm
aki2403

it means that the same three digits are repeated in three cells in the same row/column/3x3 grid
1:30 pm
BoredByPolitics

Inge, see this page under 'Advanced Steps' - http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/hints.php
1:49 pm
Inge

Thanks BbP. I looked it up , but still could not make sense of how to apply that to yesterday's puzzle. I will keep mulling it over. Perhaps a lightbulb will light up suddenly.
2:23 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
2:23 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
2:50 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Done, no greens. Nothing very hard except perhaps a few pairs.
3:26 pm
hurshy

unike? i spose you're gone...
4:04 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Now I'm back.
4:18 pm
hurshy

i spose inge is gone too, or i could explain about the triple (in the far right column)
4:19 pm
hurshy

oh hi
4:19 pm
hurshy

that did not pop up
4:19 pm
hurshy

until just now
4:19 pm
hurshy

i wanted to ask if you ever solved your screen flashing problem, i dunno if you saw my post about emailing doc
4:23 pm
Inge

oh, but HUrhsy, I am back too now
4:25 pm
Inge

Hurshy, did you leave?
4:25 pm
hurshy

no i am here
4:26 pm
hurshy

are you still working on yesterday's?
4:26 pm
Inge

OK, I called up yesterday's grid, with all the greens filled in . Now what about the naked triple?
4:27 pm
hurshy

well, look at the right hand column
4:27 pm
Inge

yes?
4:27 pm
hurshy

do you see how there are three squares where the five and the eight cannot go? only the 1, 7, and 9 can.
4:27 pm
Inge

the 1 and 7 appear in three squares
4:27 pm
hurshy

right
4:28 pm
hurshy

and the nine is in two of those
4:28 pm
Inge

ok
4:28 pm
hurshy

so you have 3 squares, and nothing but choices from among those three numbers can go in them
4:29 pm
hurshy

which means, those three numbers, in some arrangement, HAVE to go in those three squares, or some square would not have a number.
4:29 pm
Inge

ok, now what?
4:29 pm
Inge

ok
4:29 pm
hurshy

well that means that those three numbers do NOT go in the other two squares, the five and the eight do.
4:30 pm
hurshy

which leaves only one place for the 9 in the middle right section.
4:30 pm
hurshy

once you get that in place, the rest follows.
4:31 pm
Inge

well, I put the l in the bottom one and not above the 3?
4:33 pm
hurshy

you put the... i'm not sure exactly what you just said.
4:35 pm
Inge

maybe my greens are wrong. From the bottom up the column reads 7, 3 , blank, 2 9 1 4 , x, 6. some thing is wrong
4:36 pm
hurshy

yes, something is wrong. several somethings.
4:37 pm
hurshy

your blank there, all you have left is 5 and 8, and that block already has those
4:38 pm
hurshy

that should have been one of the three that had to be 1, 7, or 9
4:38 pm
Inge

well I am going to keep trying
4:40 pm
hurshy

do you have an earlier checkpoint?
4:41 pm
Inge

I have a print out of the grid in greens
4:42 pm
Inge

I moved the nine to the lower right quadrant and am getting the whoel puzzle filling in now
4:43 pm
hurshy

yay!
6:28 pm
helenkeller

go
6:37 pm
helenkeller

done with a few greens
8:14 pm
brittlefish.com

go 6/25/2007 (medium)
8:31 pm
brittlefish.com

done. no green.
8:48 pm
Andy

done, no greens (today's)
8:48 pm
Andy

back under my rock
9:33 pm
spellacked

whew, thought I blew it, but got it
10:39 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Go on yesterday's Hard.
11:07 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Wimping out and doing greens, yesterday's Hard was really easy.