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- Mon 09 Aug, 2010 10:37 pm
- Forum: General Puzzle Discussions
- Topic: Numberlink and Uniqueness
- Replies: 13
- Views: 22336
Re: Numberlink and Uniqueness
One thing to catch the unwary is you can't simply state "all squares are used" as part of the rules, because it's critical to solving them at a reasonable difficulty level that you don't need this - otherwise lines bending back on themselves would be fine! So our rules are wrong. I've written more a...
- Mon 09 Aug, 2010 4:10 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: LMI August Sudoku Contest
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36775
Re: LMI August Sudoku Contest
Well I got 10 points less than Steve because I simply could not do the fourth puzzle in the first round! In fact I still can't do it now (I mean, I could of course do it fairly quickly by guessing since there are only so many possibilities, but I don't want to do that. ;) ). I also went wrong on the...
- Sat 07 Aug, 2010 11:41 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: LMI August Sudoku Contest
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36775
Re: LMI August Sudoku Contest
Oh, and the odd-pair bits were the best part. 

- Sat 07 Aug, 2010 11:40 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: LMI August Sudoku Contest
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36775
Re: LMI August Sudoku Contest
A great selection of puzzles, and particularly nice when printed out in colour too. :) I'm definitely not competitive at Sudoku solving, ably demonstrated by the fact that I spent half the total time on the first round, then did the next three rounds in the same amount of time. :) I didn't get onto ...
- Sat 07 Aug, 2010 11:38 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: Qixi Festival Sudoku test
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9174
Re: Qixi Festival Sudoku test
Definitely gibberish. 

- Wed 28 Jul, 2010 3:33 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Competitions
- Topic: LMI August Sudoku Contest
- Replies: 22
- Views: 36775
Re: LMI August Sudoku Contest
David's puzzles are often on the easier side (which so far as I'm concerned is a good thing when it comes to Sudoku and variants!) - although not always - so it will be interesting to see what the actual competition is like! It certainly looks very jazzy, and I'm flattered he's included my odd-pair ...
- Sat 26 Jun, 2010 3:56 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Links
- Topic: Sudoku Xtra magazine
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11703
Sudoku Xtra magazine
Sudoku Xtra features the widest range of Japanese puzzles of any magazine outside Japan itself. With typically well over 100 puzzles per issue, and a thriving 'community section' featuring puzzles from a wide range of contributors, it has a huge variety of different puzzle types in, including many d...
- Sat 26 Jun, 2010 3:50 pm
- Forum: Puzzle Links
- Topic: PuzzleMix
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6219
PuzzleMix
http://www.PuzzleMix.com/ offers 1000s of Japanese puzzles across a range of types complete with intelligent rescaling players that work in any browser without requiring plugins. You can compare your difficulty ratings and times against thousands of other players, including detailed solving time di...