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Difficulty: Expert Tuesday, November 13, 2012

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CHAT LOG for Tuesday, November 13, 2012

12:24 am
drwho

Difficulty score 40. No green.
12:25 am
drwho

Easier than yesterday's hard.
12:26 am
drwho

Oops, I didn't do yesterday's. The hard I referred to was Sunday's hard.
12:29 am
WHB

Done, one good guess
1:51 am
eyeman

Did it. Simple enough with one green.
4:43 am
kixx

go
6:21 am
tincup

done... pretty easy for an "expert" level
7:25 am
GreyDragon

Go!
7:44 am
GreyDragon

Done.
9:45 am
sinjinn

of th 8 iterations of each array (usually assymetric) some iterations may be easier to solve than others uggestionsdue to brain orientation functions...just a
9:48 am
sinjinn

I am find a significant percentage of the 'easy' puzzles tedious to solve...whereas some of the 'hard' / expert versions are very smooth flowing...those are rare tho
9:51 am
sinjinn

so as an experiment one could 'reorient any puzzle to the other iterations and may find it easier to resolve...which may be going on brain-wise aanyway...brain juggles the image...orientaion is both l/r and u/d
9:52 am
sinjinn

and reverse
11:14 am
hurshy

oh dear, i'm so much happier when i don't look and see that it's expert.
11:29 am
Ed-was_here

Go
11:30 am
janet

The problem is that experts announce themselves--they always start with a clickathon which suddenly grinds to a halt. So when I'm merrily clicking away, it has to be either a very easy-easy or an expert.
11:32 am
gman

21filled in and slowing down
11:32 am
hurshy

right and i was thinking easy, and then looked.
11:36 am
gman

25 filled and stuck--save for later...greens, maybe
11:38 am
janet

I wonder if there is something intrinsic in the expert metric that requires them to have a significant number of spaces filled by cross-hatching. Or is is just Dr God showing his mercy by not having to scratch out a toehold to start the puzzle, only to have it turn into an expert with every box susceptible to five or six possibilities.
11:41 am
Ed-was_here

I believe this is the first expert I've ever done w/o greens. Seemed very easy to me.
1:06 pm
helenkeller

go
1:20 pm
helenkeller

done
2:06 pm
UnikeTheHunter

19. Taking a break.
3:23 pm
UnikeTheHunter

25.
3:41 pm
UnikeTheHunter

DING BOG
8:28 pm
Doll414

go
8:28 pm
PandaBear

go
8:35 pm
Doll414

done, ng
8:48 pm
PandaBear

done with a guess, but no greens!