whee

done, w/ one guess

DONE!!

Done and I made the hot list

morning all

is this a hard expert or an easy expert??

To me, it was a hard hard haaaard exert... had to guess too many times

it was head hurting hard

i had to guess twice

Dude, it wasn't THAT hard... two words: Candi Dates

what does that mean Candi dates?

candidates

The little green thingies.

i could not solve this one without guessing

Did you not use candidates?

i do not know what you mean by that

this one did not require any guessing - altho a paper-print allowed me to write IF-xxx, then-YYY sequences until it broke-open for me...

If you use Shift while clicking on a number. It marks it as a candidate. You should read up on that. It's very helpful.

igot stuck at one point when there were only candidate pairs left and i could not find any chain of "IF xxx then etc". so I guessed. wrong. :-)

the first chain i ran had about 8 boxes before i hit a conflict. then i had a second-chain of about 4 boxes (which is much more typical)

i had never read about the red/green stuff until just now - does that work for the freebie-players too?

i think so, yes,

back to work :-)

coolness - thx - i like the paper-print cuz i can draw diagonals or horizontals to split the number-pairs and keep the IF-chains consistent tho... maybe id mark one-red and one-green to act similarly... :)

done - not sure why it was rated as expert. found it easier than some of the easy ones

Is anyone awake at this hour?

easy one 11:19@germany ;-)

hi all

hi abstract

Finished bar guessing. This puzzle was not as easy as people claim nor as migraine inducing as others claim. It's a low tier expert puzzle.

it's not that easy as Linda says. it is an expert puzzle

it's impossible to be solved without guessing

i just made a guess in the lower left section

another guess in the same section

you shouldn't have to guess twice in the lower left section, one of the pairs is in a unique rectangle set

i have no idea about rectangle sets. i haven't found a single sudoku tutorial explaining the methods in the human way :)

Yeah, it's a bit complicated but I finally got my head around it with this page: http://www.scanraid.com/AdvanStrategies.htm#U
R

cool

thanks Kukana, i will have some reading now :) i just finished the puzzle with over 5 wild guesses :)

good guesses, then :)

2 guesses for me, one right and one wrong. But it all ends well. 5 points, please.

Kukana - the methods are too complicated. i get lost at the triple stuff. i prefer to use my methods.

whoa... expert! hello, all :)

howdy

hmmmm that was interesting, very easy no guessing and I don't do that advanced stuff, so how the heck did I manage it without any hiccoughs??

Probably because it's only 2 XY-wings and a brute force, and they come late in the game.

Not a bad start... the 6's, 9's, 4's all fall into place. Must get ugly later...

Exactly!

I Can't believe I gotta start over because of a duplication! Stupid me!

bummer

hello everybody

done 1st ex guessed 2 lol

starting a small marking session...

found a conflict...

i need another one

i wish Moozey would remembered moozey's moves, so i could ask

finally finished, after 3 forsing

i meant forcing chaings

there should be a programm which records the steps of puzzle solving.

begin...eeep

Ha

Nailed that puppy!

Rank me, baby!

No green or red

Cue theme music

it's a miracle! lots of green but no guessing.

2 guesses. but i'll take it. woohoo

Help please! I've got all greens. How do I eliminate?

franebrown: Try this website: http://www.scanraid.com/BasicStrategies.htm .. It helped me out tons when I started playing. :)

Thanx sooo much. Will do. Luv your froggie nilole!

You're welcome! And thanks! It's a Google talk icon.

i give up today..............

don't give up

fihished.....but had to make a few guesses on this one to get it. :)

it's so unfair when an expert level starts out easy

*flips through thousand page sudoku manual looking for section, subsection, regulation specifying no false hope to be granted in expert sudoku puzzles*

:)

that's wierd i just found this quite easy yet i have struggled the last few easies. I think my brain is backwards

Stuck at a point where I think guessing is necessary...confirm/deny?

I guess goot. Done.

hi all

tricky - two unique rectangles and two guesses

not too many greenies

limer sez "rank me baby: (like i care)

not too bad -- it required a red-track, but everything fell out once my tracks found a contradiction.

go

go

done

finally!!

took half an hour, but done!

i think Dr God played a joke on me today and sent me a different puzzle to you, guys :)

Lordy!