W00t

I'm done.

yay

i beat you!

i beat you!
i finished 3 minutes ago!

i beat you!

:(

:(
pwned

Hiya Good Luck All!

Thanks you too!

(all except for Darth... he's gonna get pwned)

whats this good luck stuff? back luck everyone... i want to win :oP

:D

lol

as you wish <snarl>

haha that's more like it

i gave you your small chance, mortal--- now sing Tiny Dancer as you DIE!!

hahhaa

Tiny Dancer? wtf lol

I'm done....... :)

damn, congratz

lies!

ty Mot

im almost there

hahaha\

I aint lying... I've finished...lol

show me a screenshot of your finished board then!

She's on Britain-time... unfair advantage with the never-setting sun :)

;)

lol

haha isn't darth the meanest? i can't wait till he loses more :P

He just don't like being beaten by a woman!....lol

i didn't get beaten... you never finished :P

well... from what i've heard he _does_ like being beaten by a woman

Well I'll re-phrase that cos he might!

but sudoku usually isn't involved ;)

snap...lol

I'll leave you all to it....... Hope you get finished soon Darth... need any help?.....lol

:P

lol

haha burrrrn

I meant on sudoku!

i hope so

Have fun... start of a new day here. Sweet dreams to those about to go to bed.. Take care, be happy & smile.. Lifes too short (((hugs)))

It says Easy but seems harder than those Medium and Hard ones

you have to do it upside-down

does your monitor swivel?

pmsl

i'm doing mine at a 45 degree angle to add to the challenge!

w00t

Just admit it Darth... you've been beaten.. AND by a woman.....lol

Darth is a woman?

He is?

she is... i know her ;)

Oh.. sorry...lol

haha

I thought it was a bloke.. sorry...

whatev... have a nice day Debs :)

Cheers Mot and you.. Take care :)

durp

done

wat abt u ppl

morning all :)

Morning sprite!

morning

This easy one lives up to its name so far :)

ur in 4 a treat

A treat like a nice and fast one on a busy day, or a treat as in a surprise after the easy start? ;)

both at once.

Lol :)

hey, they changed the save function!

Dr_God is as good as his word, as ever :)

Efficient and elegant... god I love the way he works things out.

morning Sprite :)

Ha Ginger :)

hi everyone

that's a messed up handle

uh, is my board right - it says easy but shows only 4 #'s in all of the boxes (four 8's) is that right?

nope, there are a bunch of numbers

refresh

well where the heck are the rest of my #'s - LOL

i think you need more powerful glasses... if that would even help

ahhhh, that's more like it

lol motive!!!

how do u play... braile monitor?

no, i just let the dog go at it

i want one

oh w0rd

this one lookseasy enough... is it?

nope

yea... i finished it three times since it opened

he finished Deb40ish three times since she opened

but not the puzzle

:-P pwned.

booyah

since when is England a red plus sign? I've never seen that before

it is the flag of St George MotiveForce

is that an Island or something?

it's a saint

the Union Jack is the flag of the British Isles/United kingdom.

cuz the name of the image was "England" or something ... confuses me

oh c000l

what's the diff between "England" and "Britain" anywho?

i win!

what did you win ?

Debs promised to give him loving

hrmm

pt

outta here

Much love to my homies *pours the malt liquer or... the Mt. Dew*

bye MF

hmmm this is going to well!!

oh no ... not easy again..

thought so... WAS going too well :( :)

This was easy...

I think i screwed up on the 1's, was going well1

good morning everybody

good evening.

evening

evening?

yeah, evening.

Sydney Australian here.

here (in germany) it's almost 10 in the morning

ok then good eve to down-under :-)

ta

friday is nearly over for us down under. roll on the weekend.

this is pretty tough for an 'easy'

yeah

Done - once you get thru the hard part, it flies

easy very

i finished it within 1 hour. sooo easy

morning

evening ;-)

it should take under 10 mins to solve an easy

easy my foot

morning

hi bubbles : )

Your foot plays sodoku??

how are you?

lol!! yeah! didn't I tell you?

good thanks, bubbles. you? : )

yeah extrememly tired.

how come? work?

sorry can't spell today!!!

know the feeling (I'm tired too) : /

Whew, done. Had to do this one by hand. =P

work and decorating

I just found a juicy number...... :D

well that was exciting while it lasted. :/

*glares at definition of 'easy' in the dictionary* } /

absolutely!!!

*takes dictionary and throws it out of window*

hang on..... get past the impasse and it starts to fly......

put all your potentials in..

and remember your twins...

wow.... done

you shouldn't have to guess.

this isnt working

it might be because im half asleep on te keyboard

wtg Babs : )

lol - I've been awake since yesterday! beat that! :D

thanks, Anj :D

what time is it where you are

10am

4am

I've done 4am

and ive done my fair share of staying up for days

fair do's. I'm on yet another myself... : )

i called it high school

i called it high school

oops

I call mine insomnia

lol my mom swears i have a sleeping disorder

Done :) For once, "easy" meant easy.

where's that dictionary, Anj??

good going, Sprite! ;D

Have I got the same puzzle?? : (

it took me about an hour, Anj. (but I had no sleep)

Lol Anj ;)

woo, done it (about 45 minutes for me)

you probably slept

And I am never fast, it took me all in all 45 minutes too.

including one false start...

yeah I did, is that cheating? :)

Lol @ cheating = sleeping

hyeah!!! no false starts here *beams*

only one point?

I know. a lot of work, huh?

ya

later

laters

bye babbler

I was saying laters to flarfu

Just debating Babble.... hmmm

ohh right, sorry

i must admit defeat

im too tired to sit here for 1 pt

did you put all your potentials in, santa?

night...morning...evening...take you pick

prop not lol

prop not lol

hmm, ok, it's been fish-whacked on 45 mins but it didn't seem easy... : /

you got the 9 in the bottom right square?

good going Anj! :D

this one i got

put all your potentials in to see which ones are one their own in a region

*on their own...

Yeah so now I have a very green square with lots of possibles :p

yup - now go through it systematically. They're all definite numbers today

me too.

i've now realised that no matter how hard you hit the computer it still doesn't help!!!!

lol bubbles! : D

pooouuuh i got it

i feel this one harder than the one yesterday

this is not so easy, i think.

yes, i agree... harder than yesterday's. & difficulty was medium?

Phew. Right once I got those 3s in place it all fell into place.

yesterday's difficulty was medium.

done, huggie?

This is awful! x-x-x

hahaha i pressed "save as checkpoint" when i wanted to do "return to checkpoint"

Oh no! Lol that sucks! x-x-x

i give up maybe i give it later a try

Don't give up!

08705991111

:S

sorry for strange post, my 5 year ols son decided to try sudoku on the PC and I am on the laptop!!!!!

Lol I wondered what that was all about!x-x-x

I see we have some new features...

i'm not finding this one easy at all. and yesterdays was a nightmare!

hi all

hi chebuctonian

how's it going this morning?

ummm... slow!

yeah... it took me a minute to find a place to start this one... crazy. the one yesterday was much easier to get into on account of more complete lines and squares.

very slow, indeed

ok, the 6's are a good start

the starting point is always hard.... bottom right 9 is my most complete square at present, 6 of 9 numbers

I have 7 of the 6's

same

I just noticed the bottom right corner too... that line was 3,5,7 which means only 4,9 fit in that square

I have that one

woot! now there's some easier ones to pick off :)

this is not an easy one! it's more like a medium!

well. i have ALL my possibles in, and i don't have any doubles or singles that i can take out or anything. what now?!

look for triples? :)

I've never got that far in learning sudoku rules, what do you do with them? i have two boxes with three numbers in, but not three boxes with three, i don't thinl.

have you taken a look at the wikipedia page on sudoku?

nope

normally for an easy puzzle, you shouldn't have to use those advanced strategies!

exactly! i've played these things alot, but i seem to be out of my stride lately. can't see the numbers properly.

oh god... I've made a mistake :(

I hate that!

going great guns and then suddenly a double number!!!!

lol, well that's par for the course. I don't always put in all the possibilities, and on websudoku I use a tick to indicate just partial possibilities

i had that twice already -- having to start al over again

I have started over once

ok, so far there's two squares that are relatively easy to start on... the top middle and bottom right

actually I know the solution, because I made the error on a point where there were only 2 possibilities

Chebuctonian, Have you placed a 1 in the far right row yet?

which row?

column I mean!

the last one, column 9

I haven't.

hmm 2 possibles... not sure yet which to use LOL

well done Mr O

i'm completely stuck. i hate these stupid things, they make me so mad when i can't do them!

lol miametro

at least with babble you get recognised for completing a puzzle part way. this way, you only get points if you finish.

shall we work through it?

i've only got 8 numbers placed so far.

Ginger, did you move recently? :)

first left column, do you have the 1 placed?

how can we do that without spoiling it for others chebuctonian?

yes, I do

yes

meh, if people don't want the chatter, they'll just use websudoku, or -- just ignore my rambling.

why GHaxored?

and the 7?

no, not the 7 yet

:-)

oh the flag! it's the flag of St George, ENgland! rather than Union Jack for UK

Ahh, that's better

NO SEVEN

oops, sorry

lol

only 1 spot where the 7 will go there :)

got it

i have three spots it can go in.

only 1 point for an hours work :-(

oh no there isn't, i'm an idiot! lol

:)

aaah, bit by bit I'm placing numbers there. after the 1,7 there's a 4 that's easy. a double appears in the top left corner, which makes the 9 easy to find in the bottom left one.

you've lost me completely.

i have two places the four can go in.

ooh, then you don't have the 4 in the middle right. try that first :)

me too

yes, i do.

heh. and the middle left.

the two places are in the bottom left.

we should really number the squares, it'd be so much easier, lol.

I was about to say that! squares 1-9, counting top to bottom, left to right?

yup, good idea.

or go the map route

so, i have two places for the first row's 4, both in 7.

A-I 1-9

G-9

you sunk my battleship!

along the corridor and up the stairs!

LOL

ok, do you have the 4 in squares 4 and 6?

ok, you just lost me!

yes

not with map refs

and the 4 and 7 in sq.1?

no

i have a double for them

ok. that's all I have too. but that means you know where the 9's can go. now look at S7, there's only one spot for 9 left

rewind... did you place the 4 in column A cheb?

AHH, so there is.

couldn't see that for looking.

we're lettering the columns?

um.. pass!

or column 1 then!

miametro: if you have a double with 4,7, the three numbers left are 2,8,9

I only have a 4 in S4, with a double in S1 (4,7)

s????

square :)

squre

ohhh

I would letter columns

ever used microsoft Excel?

yeah, got that, lol.

yup, but a hAx0r should be using openoffice :P

i've placed the 5 is s7, but i'm not sure it's right...

oh no, yes i am.

ol

מה נסגר?

no confidence in my own abilities.

ma nisgar?

I don't have iut there

well there is one aspect of openoffice that I regularly practice with microsoft products

I don't pay for them

:)

oh hey

I didn't notice the start over button. sweet

anyhow, gotta run to work

:-)

miametro- the 9 in the second column has to be in S1

I know I'm wasted today, but "easy"? I had to start over twice, and I never do that :)

balker- I usually finish a medium or evil in half the time this one took me. this is definitely not easy

Does it? oh :/ then i'm wrong.

oh jesus! this chat is getting too confusing, you said s1 and i read s7!! blimey.

so just to clarify, i was right, lol.

i have 4, 2 and 8 to place in S7.

yup... same here... now I'm back to picking off individual numbers I got a 2 on row 9! yay!

me too

oh, two doubles in S3! :)

i have 2 and 8 to place in row 9.

hmm... I'll add another programming project to my list

a sudoku solving tutor :)

how did you get your 2 in row 9?

sorry, column 9

I haven't got it yet

ah well, i have four places for 2 in COLUMN 9! lol.

my bad... if in column 9 (C9) you place the 2, the 3 in S3 becomes possible

chebuctonian: please don't give hints or answers

dplass: a/s/l

he's helping me and ginger uk, dplass.

chebuctonian: w/t/h?

seriously, if we're not going to use a social feature to help each other, that's what we're going to be talking about :P

you can always click on who's online if you don't want to see them.

???

it's become accepted etiquitte here not to discuss actual answers or hints

since when?

how else are we supposed to help each other?

er, always since i've been here

miametro, ginger_uk have been here at the same time every morning for 3-4 in a row

I don't give exacts, hints are ok though

we're not supposed to help eachother

it happens on babble all the time.

i dont like hints, too

so, dplass, what do you talk about then?

it feels like cheating

maybe the rules are different at different times of day, but every time I've been here hints were unacceptable.

lol

so don't read them, or don't use them.

hints aren't answers...

shoot, every time I've been here someone's saying guessing is unacceptable.

unnecessary

it's usually me

well its a game for one person

guessing and giving hints aren't the same thing... you never need to guess!

so is babble!!

well, if you never need to guess, then you shouldn't need hints either.

errr... it's a game for one person, with a social chat... if you want to play by your lonesome... you could beat websudoku

oh, I totally feel like a cheat in babble

I think the point of hints is to reveal the logic so that the players can learn

hokie: hints are sometimes meant to convey solving strategies

heh, what caderoux said :)

we can't all do this naturally

cheb isn't using hints, they're (sorry don't know if you're m or f!) helping us by giving them.

but then revealing the logic is better than just giving the answer

revealing logic is very helpful

ever heard "can't teach an old dog new tricks"? that's how I feel. If my brain can't logically figure it out, I'm not going to learn now. :-)

giving answers is not really on, it takes away self satisfaction!!!

I'm 43 and learning the logic!!

ps - I wasn't the one complaining. I was merely backing up dplass that that has been unacceptable in here before.

and done.

42 actually, not 43 till next tues ;)

s'ok Hokie carla!

well, happy early birthday! I will be 33 in a couple of weeks.

cheb, how did you place the 2 in c9?

hokie carla thx

miametro... you'll have to take a look at those 4 spots one at a time

it is a bit cold tonight

hi

hi aray

g'day

first time

oh, i really can't get this at all. i've got too many little green stupid numbers and no bloody answers! lol.

good place

I have a love/hate with the green & red numbers.

me too, helpful for a while then I have to get rid of them!

I love to put them on the grid, but I hate how they never actually help me.

a "remove subscripts" would be nice

yeah!

cheb, i think i'm going to give up. it's not worth it for 1pt!

would be nice to have 1 point, haven't finished one yet!

well, there are only 15 hours left and i don't know if i'm going to make it! lol.

the very first day I was here was an actually easy "easy". I even finished a 10 pointer pretty easily one day, but the last few days I've really been struggling. something must've happened to my logic.

lol

-BANGS HEAD AGAINST WALL-

done

good

crap

finally

having more problems with this one then I did with yesterdays...

Danno: same here. it took me 10 minutes for yesterday's, probably 30 minutes on this one!

and 1 miserable point. LOL

che - yea trying not to just guess.... but getting frustrated :)

there's got to be a way to sort these puzzles by complexity based on the algorithms humans will have to use to solve them

yea I'm starting to wonder about the criteria used to decide difficulty

where is god when you need him

maybe it's a her. you could be looking in all the wrong places!

touche. Very sexist of me

eh, I'm just a contrarian. it's nice to wonder if things are the opposite of what everyone else assumes/believes.

This one is not easy.

FINISHED.

and I'm the guy that just doesn't care either way :)

how???

once i got the c9 2 out of the way the rest of it just fell into place so damn easily i could strangle myself.

hi

hi everyone

erm i dont seem to have any numbers!!! surely this cant be an easy!! lol

you should be able to ge 5 in the top middle set

ah ha there they are

and the 1

its not

wow, this is actually challenging. how refreshing :)

the lack of 2's makes this challenging ...

hi bubbles

hi mate

what you doing on here... thought you done it

no that message you got was from yesterday

oh might of been.... i got a message from you today saying done it! i sent you back saying rock on

and i sent back eh?

yeah thats it lol did you send that message yesterday then

yeah

your phone is crap

ha ha.. how bad is my network

terrible

i got a text today from Marc, which he sent me yesterday

easy? someone is throwing us a bone....

im still putting all the greens in but so far it does not look easy

lol. i guess i spoke too soon!

there is a 2 ... once you get that 2 the rest falls into place.

lets hope i find that 2 pretty soon then lol

I must be missing something, cause this is the hardest puzzle yet

extra clue please

... its in a corner

chank -- can you deduce that 2 with certainty?

or are you just guessing?

i finished the puzzle ^_^v

it was difficult for me too, until I filled out all possible numbers then it became pretty obvious... took about 10 mins to get there, 2 to finish it out

in a corner could either be a corner of the whole grid or in a corner of a box!!

well i dont want to just give it away lol

yeah, this is definitely solvable

spoil sport lol

I must have overlooked something as I went through ... time to double-check my work :)

don't worry about the 2s until you've handled all other possibilities... it's impossible to deduce the 2 at the beginning

dave speaks truth

dave: yeah, but I'm stuck in a 50/50 here ...

it probably should have been medium difficulty, it required a few "extra" algorithms in places

i so hope this baby doesnt wake up lol.. I'm busy

hrm i dunno about that. it actually took me longer to do yesterdays than this one. once you find the key tile its pretty free flowing

agreed, the first half was difficult, the second half was a breeze

agreed, the first half was difficult, the second half was a breeze

duh, I see what I missed - haha, thanks :)

i finished yesterdays in half the time

hmm, interesting double post...

and I am still trying..

how many of you are using guessing as a means to solve these?

i don't guess

didn't need to guess

i dont guess either

but I haven't sloved it yet

done

just wondering ^_^v. I use the same algorithm everyday and always get it within 10-45 mins

there are many algorithms for this

algorithms?
math talk makes my brain hurt!

an algorithm is just a recipe, steps to follow.

you don't have to guess...but i'm sure that is an algorithm some people use. :)

this is definitely NOT a math based puzzle

I don't care how Al Gore does it ..

lol

Al Gore invented Sudoku

He did

lol

I invented Al Gore

He never said he invented the internet

darn... baby awake now!!!good luck everyone.. bubbles ill call you later

He said he helped make it possible

And he actually did.

well I wish he hadn't!!

lol

good morning all.

I finally got the break through, and it was with a 9

i'm finished now, good luck to the rest of you still trying

Stupit question : how do you play sudoku?

read "how to play" at the top

Not a stupid question but the best answer will be in the "How to Play" at the top.

ooh thanks

does anyone else's sudoku puzzle flash with the chat area?

it's getting pretty annoying

not here.

no... what browser are you using?

not sure what you mean aces...so im guessing no

not on safari that i can tell

I'm on firefox (on mac)

using safari with no problems.

Got it!

1 more point... I am begining to like this thing of sudoku!

might try safari and see if you still have a problem.

2aces - I've heard you made need to upgrade your firefox

may

AUGH

damn, I'm on the verge of guessing....

starting over

I'm not going to start over just yet, but I'm sure I'll be there soon.

done and done, not too bad

ugh

wow. that was more challenging than yesterday. But I got a whole point. Whew.

finally

most challenging one I've had yet I think

Agreed ... this one definitely seemed harder than an Easy category !

well, I finished. but I'm not going lie to you, I had to take one leap of faith. (rest was pure logic, I swear!)

carla.... are you sure just one? :)

Oh good, an easy one. At least I can get my points one at a time.....

are you calling me a liar, Mz???

did I say that? hehehe

alright, I gotta get moving. later!

crap

Easy? PAH!

Lies I say!

phew, finally solved it... blah. :)

Hi Rachel

i agree this generator for the grid is not telling the truth im thimking its taken me all of this morning to solve it

hi matthew :-)

hi matthew :-)

this is not easy!

hi guys. i agree this is not easy i have a few but i'm stuck!

one key is lower right corner, I think...

that started off really hard then when i got one number sussed it was dead easy

All that for 1 point. Oh well. It's fun, right?

should tie the scoring to time taken to solve

yeah, I hear ya kneestabber!

How about a better method for determining difficulty

Right now, I'm guessing it's directly tied to the amount of numbers you start off with

Becayse in this case, the numbers given at the start don't help very much

even though there are quite a few

no arguement there, haxored

not finished yet Haxored?

I haven't had much time to concentrate on it

I'm at work right now :)

ditto

just sort of had the window open though

lunch

which is why scoring based on time wouldn't be such a good idea

ditto

I'm not done either

anyone know how many obvious numbers there are to start with?

not sure what you mean, GingerUK

it's ok Limer

I'll be alright

"Are there any numbers right from the start that are easy to fill in, that I might be missing?"

I'll be alright

I think?

thanks Haxored... are you bored LOL

No :)

Nailed that puppy!

Rank me, baby!

wd Limer

Keep pluggin' GF

tx

all that for one point

haxord, how deep is the snow out in MN?

Not so much anymore. It's melting

It was up to about 10 inches in some places

I used to live around the TC

worked in St Louis Pk.

In Ohio now.

take 2

No snow

man, im on a roll! (thats a first) :-)

Matt?

yes?

hi!

Beat it yet?

I still haven't gotten it. I think I screwed up early on. So I'm starting over

ok

*mwa*

the rankings don't seem to match the difficulty, that was not easy

done! Whoo, that was a tricky one for awhile

Psh I give up. It's not worth the point

aww

done

woot

I got it done but I had to make a guess

this one was not easy (at least for me)

Done! That one *was* easy... for a change

you can't be serious

ugh. never attempt a sudoku--even an easy one--without coffee.

why do the easy one's seem harder?

because they are. Its a sick trick played on us by the creators

i have to agree with you guerro...been working offline on this one all day!

way harder than yesterdays (imho)

i still only have the one 2 that was given in the beginning ugh

same here

maybe i had too much beer and pizza last night

maybe you didn't have enough?

that might be the problem!

;) its 79 degrees here right now

looks pretty sunny here too!

where's here?

Chandler, Az

rocky mts.

cool, good skiing/snowboarding?

it's nice in LA

i guess we are going to start on our next 142 day streak without rain

hah

overcast in nyc

around mid40s, but it's nice

yeah there wasnt too much snow until last week here but now there is

cool

why is tom Cruise such a dork?

don't you hate when he gets mad? like in mission impossibel?

cause he likes to jump all over furniture on national television

i hate when he acts like a total nut job with all the scientology and cradle robbing and just being a general ass

yeah i missed that one

ya hah

he's just got a huge ego

dito

some reporter squirted him in the face with a squirt gun while doing an interview with him haha i thought that was pretty good

are there still people out there who actually like to watch his movies and think he is not totally nuts ?

have you seen war of worlds. single worst movie ever made!!!

dtan: it was a dildo squirt gun shaped like a penis

haha even better!

yhou could probably find the video online

he got his pearl necklace that day

ya probably

have any of you gotten any new numbers lately?

i got one 6, tha'ts it

out of the whole puzzle

ya pathetic

dang a tortoise that was over 250 years old wow

it just died though

woot, now four numbers total!!!

i totally give up so i'll be going...

bye

that tortoise die?

yeah, liver failure

damn

damn alcoholic tortoises!!!

it was brought to india from islands in the 18th century by British sailors

damn that's a loooong time again

ago*

yes it was alive before the USA's independence

well, i am going to play some poker and come back to this later

that, for once, was somewhat easy, but i can definitely see how someone would think it is hard

its a hard easy

true, its nothing like the 'easy' on the websudoku, but it was definitely a lot easier than the hard puzzles here

well, I am gone, good luck to all!

nice to see an easy one today. let's see how long it takes?

seems harder than an easy to me.

they all seem hard!

:)

that's why it has a difficulty level of easy ... because it IS, in fact, difficult ...

fair enough, btwrt.

they should just measure the difficulty by how many doritos you eat while you solve them

hahaha! cute idea!

*stuffing face*

drinking brandy and ginger

it's a lot more difficult than the easy in the Daily Mail

too right doogie

oo ha

i can't do it!!!!

lala

smoking ciggarettes and watching captain kangaroo

don't tell me you've nothing to do...

anybody got the sore throat and compulsive dry throat?

sorry meant sore throat and compulsive dry cough -

hi all

hi

i've put in all the green marks and still can't work it out. am i really that useless?

no

i have the sore throat but no cough *yet*

i did some guessing - it didn't work. no way is this easy! i give up

who is responsible for the difficulty??

octopus!

for real. i am so stuck.

who is octopus??

i've resorted to random guessing on paper to see if i can eliminate possibilities...

when you found a second 2 gimme a call

hello all

hello

i feel like 1 number / hour

oh my first row - i have a streak

i just feel like i am missing something obvious

i did it

now back to the porn - j/k

EvilBernd really isn't 'j/k' hehe

pst - don't tell

hah

you are, british

i think once i get my second 2 then it will be faster

don't mean that in a rude way

damn..no tone of voice to know how I meant that

i figured, and once it hits me, I'll be smacking my forehead

it's all good

its okay. on the internet all you have to do is put a ";)" after everything you type and it makes everything okay

anyone know how they decide if easy, medium or hard?

everybody ok and enjoying friday evening?

evening? its only 217pm

;)

guerro - here too

where are you? I m in wales and it is 21.20

i don't want this to be the third day in a row i can't figure out the sudoku ... *sniff*

AZ = 2:30 pm

2:20

what is the weather like? It's really cold her in Wales at 21.30. Please ell me where you are so that I can feel really envious

sunny, blue skies- about 75degrees

pthomp where are you?

Tucson, Arizona USA

mon dieu mon dieu you lucky person

like this most of the time til summer when it can be 115 degrees. We had snow in the area last weekend now 75

have you ever experienced fog and ice and yukky don't want to get out of bed days

thats every day in New Jersey!

yes lived in SEattle for a while - not my favorite

its 79 and clear here

guerro - where are you?

Az

is that Arizonna?

yep, you guessed it

how cold is it in winter then where you are?

finally! i had to start over twice 'cause i kept screwing something up.

see u all later!

can get to 20 sometimes but up north it snows and rains all year

guerro is that -20 C? are you really serious?

guerro, you've got to be up north. we had no rain for 4 months till last weeekend

i have enough filled in, that i don't want to start over, but can't get past where i am

doogie: 20 F pthomp: i never said I was up north, nor idd I say it has rained here in the valley of the sun. In fact we went 142 days without rain

ah, PHX

;)

chandler actually

i have to work at 5 and I kinda want to finish this thing before I go in

argghh

done. later folkser

done. later all

guerro don't understand your message. what is pthomp? I think you have misinterpreted my message or, like me, enjoying relaxing on Friday night?

doogie: when you see a sn with a colon after that means I am addressing that person just like with your name in this message

pthomp: later

you are not making sense

is English your first language ? You may not be understanding my perfect English

did you not see that user with the name "pthomp" ?

c'mon where's the wink? ;)

be nice...

I left it off because I intended to be cheeky

;)

forget it!!

lol

that means laughing out loud. It describes what I am actually doing right this moment

ok back to the puzzle

cheers to all - no hard feelings ok?

Why is this puzzle called "easy"? Its frickin not.

cheers to that

Don't worry doogie, it made no sense to me either

doogie: you would be the only one with those. I certainly have none! w00t

are we connecting around the world? I am in wales and it is 21.48 Where are you all?

4:48

I've been wondering what w00t means. Guerro, could you explain? Doogie, i'm in Scotland

michigan USA :)

New Jersey, US

w00t is an interjection used to express joy

yo caffein! ... i'm florida, USA

lol, btwrt! you live right by my sister!!

u r too funny

sorry to hijack the chatterbox for our personal amusement. btwrt IS my sister. :)

florida is a very large town

i hate this fracking puzzle :P

cheers

i get the hard ones no problem, but this "easy" one is kicking my ass

me too

me too

yeah this puzzle ... ouie. i wish i could ask those people who won (who are probably gone by now) if they had to guess to arrive at the solution

snap

me four

3.49pm is showiing on my clock but I it is actually 22.00 where I am in Wales

no its not!

you dont need to guess. There is just one logical move that is eluding you ;)

i've always wanted to go to wales. is it nice?

ok i will persevere :) thx

its 21.52 same as me

?

doogie: I think there is one central clock on the website so that the puzzle will refresh based on that time and not everyone elses time. So in essence there is only one 24 hr period when the puzzle is available

wales is is gorgeous. Although it depends where you are. it has a gorgoeous coast line and lots of country areas

ahh :) maybe someday ...

God me so dumb - i forgot to check the vertical columns for the last 10 mins - getting there now

wonderful beaches, surfing can be good, unexplored

THANK GOD

finally it is finished

this thing has been plaqueing me all day

lol plaque

lol

clearly it's taken all my verbal abilities with it

w00t w00t w00t!!!!!!

That was NOT easy

But its done :) <pats self on the back>

1 measly point...

congrats stef

and marciikeler

yay finally...i think now i have 2 points to my name!

i v made it

only by intuition

this is not an easy puzzle

defenitly not easy

is there any CIVILIZATION out there?

PORTUGAL.....................................
.

hióó´hióóó

what the fuck's goin'on round here

I"m confused. did you finish?

yes

blitzkrieg: you really should put a wink after all that or people may get the wrong idea ;)

wel this is the hardest easier puzzle that i solve

guerro did you finish the puzzle?

clue line one 597314682

aw, cut if out!

yah, don't do that!

çine 2

line 2

just kidding

not funny :-p

maybe

c'mon

let us feel like idiots on our own...stuppid "easy" puzzle

*stupid

well but its wrong by saying that this puzzle is easy when is not. only a average or hard puzzles can be solved ONLY by intuition. this puzzle can be OLY be done by intuition too...so i must say that they canot put a puzzle like this one saying that is an easy puzzle

its wrong

I think we've all seen puzzles here where the difficulty rating doesn't seem to correlate with the puzle at all

most of teh "medium"s I've done here are harder than the "hard" and "expert" ones

yes is true..

Today's puzzle took me around an hour, while a "Hard" one from about five days ago took me 15 minutes

good name

so you say that an easier puzzle here = an hard puzzle out there?

this is crazy

im putting the solution

line 2 : 281697345

line 3: 634258971

stop

line 4 : 968475213~

stop

stop

please

i figure if I type enough it will clear the screen

let us work in peace!

line 5 : 143962857

blitzkrieg is an arse

no more madness

yeah i was thinking that too (clearing the scren)

line 6 : 725831469

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

g

g

g
g

g

g

i'm having a very hard time with this one today, but if i do manage to solve it i want to do it without help

line 7: 859143726

g

g
g

g

g

g

g

g

g

g
g

if you do get the solution from somebody else, it's not a victory at all, it's just cheating. please blitzkrieg, don't

line 8: 372586194

a

no

no

e

no

no

s

no

no

everyone, if you dont' want to see, just hit the "who's online" tab

u rock, thanx

wow, good call

don't want to live in fear of fascists

fuck you

hee hee

blitzkrieg, really, it's not cool. Any of us could go to a solver and get the solution without working it out if we wanted to.

reap what you sow

fuck you stef

be nice

what a pathetic cry for attention

im being nice

im being nice

no you're being antisocial

ok

ta

you too

good luck

whit this ridiculous puzzle

its only worth one point anyway

well THAT was ridiculous, lol

this seems to have been going on all day ... people arguing about revealing hints and whatnot

it's not cool

to reveal, i mean

Yeah, I emailed Dr. God about maybe making all the puzzles worth the same and taking out the difficulty ratings, since we never seem to agree wtih them anyway.

Things'll even out :) Everyone have a good day and enjoy your weekend(s)!

thx :)

u too!

i think its useful to discuss strategies, just don't go giving away the answers.

if people want clues (ones that others may not want to see), they should talk somehow so that we can't all see

agree

i guess i'm a purist, i don't really want hints at all

Start an IM chat or something...

notes via carrier pigeon

makes me feel like i didn't do my best

i'd never heard of a naked pair (not in the sudoku sense anyway) until i came to this site and i've become much better

it really has to be a solo effort

I've gotten some good pointers toward strategies, that's for sure. But it's hard to give hints here without giving away too much.

ok, really leaving now :)

g'night

naked pair ?

Yeah - if two cells in a group contain an identical pair of "candidates" on their own then no other cells in the group can have those values

Check out http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=bbfm2k
df5zzzv for hints - its really good

this one is easier compared to yesterdays, by a longshot

make sure there aren't any gaps in the address when you paste it

Stef-
The gaps are put there automatically to keep URLs from going off the side of the chat log.

You should still be able to copy and paste the URLs, however

In Firefox at least, it discards text after the line break

use tinyurl then :)

tinyurl can present security issues

really? i didn't know that.

learn something new every day ;)

well nothing special - just the fact that tinyurl completely masks the URL

AH. i see what you're saying.

so if you click on it you're being blindly redirected to another site

i suppose you'd have to trust the person giving you a link, then

a better solution I've seen involves parsing the inputs for URLs and automatically creating links

so when someone types a URL it shows up as "[link] www.url.com"

where "[link]" is actually a hyperlink

does everyone here use notes to solve these? I never use notes. but this one link says one cant get far without keeping notes ?

that's an interesting way to do it, texel

notes? like written down, you mean?

I use them way too much... in fact at some point I have to clear them all out because they get cluttery

i just use the unbelievably great wee green numbers

notes are good for when ur a beginer, but once uve done a few u can just spot them

me too, stef

green numbers?

yes - when you go to enter a number, hold shift

it lets you keep track of the possibles

im using a mac, it doesnt seem to work

spot naked pairs, naked triples, hidden pairs and a thing called an "x-wing" that i haven't figured out yet

try the option key - that should make red numbers

hold it down while you're clicking the actual number in the box

red is supposed to be for impossible numbers but i've never used it

on a mac just click it normally. Then press and hold the option key while selecting the number you want = red number

red and green are functionally equivalent - just different colors

anyone out there actually know what the x-wing thing is?

the same but using the shift key will yield a green number

finally..for 1 point.!!

ok how can i get all the way down to only having 5 empty boxes and have something wrong ?

omg i have 3 boxes left and its messed up

no i have 2 boxes left and its not working how can this be ?

its the most dangerous point - i usually kak myself on the last few boxes

stef - I know how to recognize an x-wing but I have no idea what to do with it :)

have you checked out:

:)

http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=bbfm2k
df5zzzv

but how could i get all that way if it was messed up ?

http://www.simes.clara.co.uk/programs/sudokut
echniques.htm

http://www.sudokudragon.com/sudokustrategy.ht
m

yeh i'm working my way through it slowly but some of it is incomprehensible to my feeble mind

guerro - did anything flash pink while you were working?

meaning you had a conflict?

no pinks

thanks Kris10 for the new sources - the SadMan one is really good

i just got down to 2 empties and a 4 and 8 left to place but i get a conflict in both boxes

Stef - np
G - I hate that! Go back to your last saved checkpoint in the hopes that the error was made later rather than earlier?

i saved only about 10 moves ago

i already tried must have happened a while back

did it with two lucky guesses. yay

bummer. that happened to me a few days ago - ended up starting over

well I guess i will miss out on this one then. no time to start over before work

Krys10 - what is your icon?

Err. I just had an involuntary reset.

did u click on anyones profile? casue i did that and it did that to me

Nope. Just happened all of a sudden as I was staring at it.

AT LAST!!!!

Involuntary reset?

This one took me a while...

Are more puzzles available if I sign up for a Pro account?

i'm just making good guesses at this point or so i hope

nope guess my guessing failed

CONGRATULATIONS!

You have completed today's puzzle

1 point has been added to your Ranking

(A new puzzle will be available at 12:00 midnight CT)

woo

How long did it take and how many people to build this? This is great!

im going to play babble now, bye

This is an Easy puzzle?

Sudoku difficulties are highly subjective. :-)

The Hard yesterday was easier than this, imho

I happen to agree.

But then, I'm more distracted today than I was yesterday...

yay 1 point!!!

That was the hardest point earned EVER

this is a lot of work for 1 point

I'd have gotten it a lot quicker if I hadn't kept missing obvious ones.

oh man i am in a friggin bind and a half

GRRRRRRRR!!!!

Lol me too!x-x-x

Ding....

Ding....

That was painful

Ding...?

MMO terminology for level-up... I just finished the puzzle

Lol well done. Now if I could only work out and put in the last million numbers...

W00t!!! I'm done!

wow did i ever earn that point

i just finished and i guessed a LOT

damn, I have a mistake anda m too tired to fix it.

starting over.

helllo...why is it flashing up?

grisham2107-
Upgrade to Firefox 1.5

thks Dr. God

its annoying..giving me a headache.

There's something I'm missing here. Right?

I got a few off the bat, then I didn't make headway on this one until I entered all the green numbers. Then it all fell out - but slowly.

I think I have all possibilities entered.

Testing...

Yay go me ;)

I don't think there's a flag for my country

david mitchell! i'm reading a book by you.... unless there happens to somehow be more than one David Mitchell!

just sayin....

=)

Griffums?

hi mab!!

eb you're looking very furry today!

thanks...I reused an old pix from 'babble land'...

Hi EB! I've never done a sudoku; just copied this one and will see if I can figure it out. Logic is not my forte. Hi LeslieAnn!

mab - I've done most of the online ones here...and quite a few on paper...but certainly not an expert - but I'll be happy to help in any way i can : )

hello

the ability to add the superscript numbers (by selecting the box and then hitting shift-click) really helps!

Thanks Eastie, I will let you know. I've read the Wikipedia piece, so now I'll play with it a bit. Doesn't rosy sound familiar?

dunno...that post was almost an hour ago...

dunno...that post was almost an hour ago...

leslie - how are you doing?? : )

good... well, not in the puzzle yet... just started

I started earlier, but I'm trying to finish it...haven't had a chance to touch babble today!!

it wasn't that hard, but 172 words. i just finished

ooo...don't think I'll tackle that tonight - esp. since I still need a bunch o' numbers here!!

hey leslie, auntie, you guys still working on this?

off and on

hursh - yup...I'm just not seeing where I've got an opening...plus, I was watching a hockey game : )

i can help if you need it

I think I just found my 'stopping' point - I hadn't removed a small 9....I'm starting to see the light!!

mmm, ice cream cake

is that my reward when I finish?? 8 )

sure, i can share

I spoke too soon...

i'm still here if you need anthing

i've licked my plate clean :)

my kingdom for a blasted 2 (but not quite yet!!)

etiquette schmetiquette

ice cream cake is too good to waste

well, you are a cat, it's expected

lol

this is my cat marty, leslie

ok, take 3

he like carrots, as eb knows

(as in, 3rd time's a charm)

shredded! : )

i wonder if it is because he is orange, and they are orange

well if you hadn't licked it clean, i'm sure he would have

not if mitten had gotten there first (which she would)

wouldn't that be cannibalism??

lol

but he doesn't like oranges.

i don't think cannibalism extends to adjectives. if it did, a big person could not eat a big anything, which they obviously do.

there you go with that logic again! : )

oops

now, if he played the violin, that might be sketchy. not quite cannibalism, but verging...

anybody know of any other good sudoku sites?

www.websudoku.com

Hahah I think WebSudoku gets brought up at least once an hour here.

yeah...!!!

this is so annoying

What is?

point

stupid 2's...

i can't do sudokus

I think there needs to be a common sudoku rating system.

why is this an 'easy'?

So that easy is easy is easy.

off to view babble....

agreed

good luck!!

last week i got an 'expert' in less time than the subsequent easies and mediums

wth?

you done, eb? good job!

starting over

yup...tricky 2's....hang in there...!!

ok, nice empty board

ooh i just got another box that i never got before

ok, stuck again :-(((

has anyone used the script for greasemonkey?

me too, dp

i must be mising some key sudoku solving technique if i'm having so much GD trouble on these

(missing from my brain that is, not nec. missing from today's board)

lol i feel the same way

i need some 3s and some 2s. "Go fish"

the reason it's hard to solve is that every freaking box *could* be a 2

or an 8

all right, time to guess

This is a freaking mess.

ok, i think i've just about made it (through guessing)... so if someone is stuck on a box i could suggest a number to go there...

Gyeh, I'll take a hint x.x Is the one in the top row in the middle or right box?

bah

middle

Thank you <3

yw

sweet. that was my first attempt at a puzzle, and i finished it! good luck all & goodnight.

*sobs*

so freaking close

anything i can do to help, dp?

please dont' give clues or answers :(

vvv is what i always say vvv

damnit

ok. well i'm out. g'night all.

hmm, leaving this one a bit late - I'm glad its an easy one

that was close

done