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12:09 am
SamanthaJoy
Good morning
12:10 am
SamanthaJoy
I just sailed through most of this without a pause, but now I'm broken down with multiple cells that contain 1s, 3s, and 5s that I don't see a pattern to. I didn't use greens until this point.
12:20 am
Onpaki
i am the same, samantha.
12:22 am
drwho
Difficulty score 31. No green.
12:30 am
drwho
SamantaJoy and Onpaki, when I got to the point you are at, I started looking for an alternating inference chain, and when I found 1, I finished the puzzle.
12:46 am
eyeman
Why Expert?? Clickety-click done with one pause of 3 or 4 minutes. I've seen harder Easys.
1:08 am
trueheart11
done. no greens
1:17 am
Fizzbut
Nice to have an expert, those mediums were getting hard.
2:52 am
MrOoijer
Trivial game that ends in a BUG - and if you know how to solve that, it remains trivial
4:08 am
angieplumptit
Done...with the help of my guardian angle. And. of course, the Malthausen Multiple Obfuscation Technique.
5:24 am
Phil
Haha, an expert for a change
5:28 am
Phil
only 18 left to go, ridiculously easy start
5:32 am
Phil
done, no greens. Somewhat easier than most of the recent mediums. Think we've been there before!
6:16 am
kaosangel
Morning. Go.
6:20 am
kixx
done, no greens
6:27 am
kaosangel
Done. No Greens.
6:53 am
NonoNanette
rather easy for an expert. Did have to take one guess but no greens
7:55 am
Doll414
done, no greens
8:08 am
tuco
Yes, very easy. Almost a click fest, the last 3 numbers were an easy visualization.
8:43 am
ypsigirl
easy expert! yay!
9:33 am
Krys10
Catching up after two years off-site: March 2009 is complete.
9:36 am
sprite
lol Krys10, you are much further than I! I am doing february 2008 now.
9:36 am
Krys10
Hey Sprite! Keep plugging away; we'll get there!
12:35 pm
joycecurman
I can't do most hard ones, especially the expert. Any lessons, rules or suggestions? Don't tell me to quit. I'm not a quitter. :-)
12:37 pm
SamanthaJoy
Joyce, I just had to keep practicing. You can Google some fo the "advanced techniques" that are mentioned here, and drwho has some helpful links on his site, http://sudoku.pauls-pc-repair.com/
1:33 pm
joycecurman
Thank you Samantha. I LOVE this stuff.
1:33 pm
artlady
It's addictive!
1:34 pm
lk911
clearly the easiest expert ever...
2:02 pm
K M
finished ... nice and easy
2:09 pm
Bobsta
are you sure that wasn't an easy labelled as an expert?
2:23 pm
loushka
Re: this BUG thing - I got to the point Mr Ooijer was talking about where one can use an advanced technique called Bivalue Universal Grave. The numbers I wound up having to eliminate (after having tried the other combos) made no sense at all, if my understanding of this principal is correct. Anyone else have this problem?
5:27 pm
sprite
if the numbers don't make any sense, your understanding of the principle is probably not correct yet.
6:43 pm
Gretchen
Easy expert - no greens.
7:23 pm
Prinise
done, no greens
10:20 pm
Ed-was_here
Done with one XY Wing
