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gohast
Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: Raising the bar? |
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Hi
The recent decision to make the Hard and Very Hard puzzles more difficult has made me go away and read up on the X wing etc. It's rekindled my interest in Sudoku. I'm wondering, are there any more "upgrades" like this in the pipeline? |
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David
Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 58 Location: Bedford, UK
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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I think you will need to wait for Sam to comment on this, but unless my memory is playing tricks, I seem to recall that he was going to step it up again at some point and that he was going to use strong links in the solving repertoire.......... so I think I will sign off and do a bit more 'revision'. |
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samgj Site Admin
Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 106 Location: Cambridge
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Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: Raising the bar? |
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gohast wrote: | I'm wondering, are there any more "upgrades" like this in the pipeline? |
Hello gohast
Eventually yes -- unfortunately all dependent on me getting down to it! I keep getting distracted by things like this:
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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A2. Slices in a Trivial Pursuit "pie"
A4. Faces on a tetrahedron
A5. Spikes on the Statue of Liberty’s head
A7. x in 7x+3=59
B1. Blind mice
C1. Gallons in 1 peck
C2. Binary 111
C5. Small step for man
C6. Balls in an over
D2. Quavers in a crotchet
D4. Paper
D9. Little girls sitting in the back seat
E1. x!=120
E3. Pink ball in snooker
E7. Remaindered dalmation
E9. Rock from the sun
F1. Mean of 3, 7, 8, 10
F6. Stations on a Monopoly board
F8. Cube root of 8
G4. Strikes and you’re out
G5. Gold rings
G8. Deadly sins
G9. x in Pascal’s triangle: 1, 4, x, 4, 1
H9. Furlongs in a mile
I3. Wheels on my wagon
I5. Seasons
I6. Shakes of a lambs tail
I8. Square feet in a square yard
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Printable version:
http://www.dailysudoku.co.uk/sudoku/pdf/cludoku_eg.pdf
Nice thing about this is that the more answers to questions you get, the easier the puzzle gets. If you don't know a couple of answers, maybe that doesn't matter -- you'll just have to work a bit harder with the Sudoku.
Sam |
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gohast
Joined: 26 Sep 2006 Posts: 18 Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Sam
I can see how that would distract, a nice variation on a classic Sudoku. Meant to say as well that the new Draw/Play page is great, and reduces the environmental impact of my obsession nicely
Graham |
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skmoejoe
Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 4
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't attempted to solve the puzz;e yet but I am almost finished with the clues.
I don't get the reference to Paper for D4 and in I3 Ifound two references to "wheels on my wagon" one with Burt Bacharach and one by Fluke.
I guess I'll try to solve the puzzle with these two missing links. |
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