dailysudoku.com

[Marty R.]

I have just started looking at this feature and have a couple of questions:

1) Suppose I have something like this in a row: 24-24-345. Is there a way I can do what I'd do with with a pencil and eraser, which is to get rid of the "4" from the 345 cell?

2) I input one of the "Nightmare" puzzles which ran into a brick wall right from the git-go when I did it with pencil and paper. I solved three cells early, then couldn't even eliminate a candidate. Trying for a hint gave the message that a hint couldn't be provided because of an error or too hard or unsolvable, I can't remember the wording.

So I removed the three cells I had already solved so that the puzzle was then in its published form. Three successive hints gave me the cells I had already solved, then the same "We can't give a hint" message. On that site's forum, there is no mention of this puzzle, which I assume there would have been had it been invalid.

So what am I to make of the inability of Draw/Play to provide a hint?

[David]

I would also be interested in the first point that Marty made. I find the draw function very useful for puzzles where I am left with a lot of 'white space' after filling in the easier numbers.

[samgj]