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LloydB · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Skagit Co., WA USA

Truly a challenging puzzle. Finding the x-wings among the clutter was tough.
An x-wing on 8
An x-wing on 7
An xy-wing on 5,7,8
And finally another xy-wing on 1,4,5 broke it.
Maybe all those weren't necessary.

sheryl · Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Posts: 64 Location: New York

marty,

i went back to the last post of 1/24. there are several grids. PRAKASH's grid looks right, all others look squirrely. i know you don't know why, but if anyone does, i'd love to know.

nataraj · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

sheryl,

I think I know what is going on.

The effect you see comes from the browser trying to wrap the lines. That happens when you either look at this forum through a small browser window (remedy: xx to full screen) or maybe use a large font (use normal size font).

I just tested this effect with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Usually I use Mozilla/Firefox and Mozilla does not show this behaviour but rather hides the rightmost part of the forum when I re-size the window.

You can see prakash's grid allright because it is more condensed.

Hope this helps so you won't see squirrelly puzzles any more. They are bad enough as they are...

storm_norm · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 1741

sheryl,
(and anyone who can't fit my grids on the screen)

I make my column width the same regardless of the number of candidates in the cell.

I only do this so I am not changing the size of the grid everytime I post a new one.

if I were to reduce the column width per the number of candidates then some of my grids might be visible in smaller window sizes. or as nataraj pointed out, with larger font.

a higher screen resolution size might help also. you probably won't be able to view my grids in 800 X 600 res. you might get away viewing at 1024 X 768 on a 15" monitor but I haven't tried it.

you will have to set the resolution pretty high so that the entire web page fits on the screen. the catch is that everything will look smaller.

storm_norm · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 1741

if you are really ambitious you could copy my grid and paste it into notepad using "courier" as your font.

although, if you really wanted to get fancy, I would ask nataraj about posting those cool image grids, and any of the images he has posted.

nataraj · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject:

sheryl · Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Posts: 64 Location: New York

well, i do keep my screen on a pretty low resolution because if the resolution is high the images are small and then i can't see them comfortably, so i guess i just won't be able to see some grids. oh well-too bad for me
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Glassman · Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 50 Location: England

ravel · Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 536

The "triple x-wing" is called swordfish. Its not very popular here, because its hard to spot (at least if you cant highlight single numbers, as i do in my editor). So maybe you like the swordfish puzzle i recently posted here.

Glassman · Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 50 Location: England