dailysudoku.com

I am very sorry to hear that Marty is no longer solving Sudokus.

That means for all practical purposes that this forum has no admin or moderator, right?
But Sam - the owner - will take care of th ...

Prdarby,

the latest version of Helmut's Sudoku Helper does just that: import a puzzle (Draw/Play - Ascii - copy- paste) then select menu option DO IT YOURSELF

see post: [url=http://www.dailysud ...

It's been 4 1/2 years since the announcement of "Helmut's Sudoku Formatter" as a replacement of the "Nataraj Formatting Tool."

- the WHERE is the Helper ?

DRAW/PLAY:

The S ...

The Sudok-o-Rama at my site

http://sudoku.saueregger.at

offers five puzzles per day:

EASY, MILD, HARD: every day
ADVANCED: Thursdays and Saturdays
VERY HARD: all other days of the week

S ...

Marty,

assuming that by "this site" you mean the dailySudoku, I tried it 2 minutes ago with today's "easy", worked just fine (Draw/Play, ASCII, copy/paste).
Perhaps you acciden ...

Pattern Based Sudoku Generation - Final Report

Finally, found some time to take the new pattern based strategies from the test bench and integrate them into the Sudoku Farm. As a (for my needs) rea ...

Could not find the story about the Oxford scientists. But this one is about the same theme:

"Service Call", published 1954. I found it in vol.4 of the Collected Stories, titled "The ...

...
However there are occasional messages
to the effect that there is an inability to explain some hints. Does this
involve a "psychic" approach??

...
Alan

Psychic approach .. I li ...

Patterns Puzzles - interim report

Finally, this being Saturday and all, I got around to work on the patterned puzzles.

During that process I searched for old design documents, and lo and behold ...

diagonality is recommended

Ah, that may be the case in the Patterns Game.

Myself, I'm thinking more like: How can I create a Hanukkah Menorah pattern for Dec.6 or a Christmas Tree for Dec. 24 ? ...

sweet, a <3 for Valentine's Day Smile

Now I think I want to experiment with patterns after all. Not for competition, not necessarily for the daily Sudok-o-Rama puzzles, but for a Special Edition ma ...

thanks!

but perhaps someone (keith?)
would try it without "pencilmarks"?

Laughing

I pity those who try.

Except the ones who can play five simultaneous chess matches without even ...

Hi Pat !

Thanks for the link to the Patterns Game on the New Players Forum. I signed up there only a few days ago and have not had time to look into the various sections. Good to know the Patterns ...

Keith,

throughout the whole process, there are many places where the way to go is not obvious at all. When I began to think about generating puzzles myself, I thought about my emotional reaction to ...

Good to see everything works smoothly.

Discontinuing the close monitoring. If there are any problems, email me.

Take care
Helmut

Frequencies of graded Sudokus in test run

The number of sudokus requested was:
- 61 each for Easy, Mild, Hard
- 44 Very Hard
- 17 Advanced

The "Farm" creates at least 50% more than ...

Are there any statistics on how many of say 1000 generated fall
into which categories?

Not off the top of my head, sorry.

I remember that the critical path is the creation of Very Hards. The ...

How do I create Sudokus ?

The process of creating Sudokus is much closer to farming than it is to engineering.

How do you create a grade 1 / class A carrot?
Answer is: you don't.

All you do ...

Five years ago, in 2010, I started the Sudok-o-Rama project.

October 2010, the puzzles were generated for a daily serving of one "easy", "mild", "hard" and either &qu ...

Dear all,

I'll be moving my webspace to a different webserver a week from now. Everything is set up and working fine, but in order for the new site to go live, the domain will have to point to a di ...