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hockeyfish · Guest

I was just coming in to suggest something to do with askew or skewed (suduku askew) because of the similar sound and rhythm but I read the skewedukos post and think that might even be better

Frosted · Guest

I built a solver for these in Excel.

I know, it's cheating and missing the point and all that. However, my twisted mind derives greater joy from coming up with such a solution that it does from Sudoku. Pity me, if you must.

http://sgt.cc

mother superior · Guest

gerrymandered ... that's a good one

I was going to suggest "Catty Wampus"

RogerC · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject: New name for Squigglies

Who cares what they are called - they're great!

What was it Shakespeare said? Something like "Rows by any other name"

Laughing

john bm · Guest

stone · Guest

How about "Spider"?

or more classic one, "irregular"

mother superior · Guest

How about pseudoku?

Monster Man · Guest

I say the name should be

addicted · Guest

Jigsaw or Puzzle

Snoop Dogg · Guest

Squiggle Nizzle

Guest · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:01 am Post subject:

They are "shaepely" or "curvy"

Guest · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:02 am Post subject:

They are "shapely" or "curvey" sudokus.

Rod Montgomery · Guest

Self inflicted killers that they are and in keeping with the Japanese name, how about

Seppuko Sudoku

sudoku · Guest

Guest · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject:

How about "9x9 Sudoku with iregularly shaped boxes and an unimaginative name"?

Guest · Guest

Maybe "Nonominoes Sudoku," the boxes look like pentominoes but with 9 squares... Confused

Guest · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:27 am Post subject:

"sexy sudoku"

Guest · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:27 am Post subject:

Unboxed Sudoku's

eubielicious · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: Skewedokus

I personally like the Skewedoku name. Anyway they are great.

I prefer them to all the others, although some of them are really mindbending the only ones I really don't like are the 16x16 ones, when you have F's and 0's in the box, it's hard.

On the Squiggly front, I tend to deal with them on a row by row, column by column basis, by finding the numbers which are present in greatest number and working out in which rows/columns they need to be placed, then trying to work out the possibilities for each of those rows/columns. Then I look at each of the shapes in turn where I have more than, say, 5 numbers and try to work out which are missing and so on...

Then I have to resort to writing in the possibilities!!!

But - keep up the good work! The only grumble I have is that Bradford Council have blocked it on their intranet!!!!!! Now what will I do in my tea breaks!??!?!?

Euan

guest · Guest

Thanks for supplying us with a daily dose of those! I do not really mind whatever name, as long as the challenge stays the same!

One thing I do find helpful is marking somehow differently with a pencil the numbers in cells that do have to go in a row or column or, for example very softly, those which just have to be somewhere in a certain area, but have differnet options. Consequenty you can remove a lot of possibilities and the squigglies get a lot easier. I like the hard or very hard ones, although I must admit they do take a little longer than the square ones and I do make mistakes sometimes since they are more confusing somehow. But after doing a few of those the square ones seem a little too straightforward, almost boring. Solved the very hard on April 3rd in a few minutes...