ok, smooth - 2 minutes, I bet!

lol here we go!

crap! I screwed up... starting over

done!

oy!

I don't know what went wrong at first. lol a 4 went somewhere it should, and I didn't catch it till much later

*shouldn't*

done

good job! :)

race you to babble!

done

Difficulty score 15. Cross hatching does the trick.

Good morning, all. Very pleasant. Shift key for greens have a day off.

go

done, no greens

no, this looks real easy

easy hey

go

whoops. done.

piece of cake

What is the auto fill?

No answer? Nice forum

autofill?

after using no greens or reds, much to my amazement I finished this one. Thought I even blew it a couple times.

done!

dahduke - it isn't personal most players come in here, complete the sudoku and go.

dahduke - it isn't personal most players come in here, complete the sudoku and go.

go

done

autofill - a couple of days ago, a member (krys10) mentioned a piece of javascript that she has in her profile - which will autofill the greens for an in-process sudoku.

if you dont know what that means, try holding the shift-key and hitting an empty-square. instead of a "normal" number, you get a little-green-number. you can use these to "track" your solving-process. (see the instructions)

ooh, it's like magic

the autofill is like magic. it makes it a lot more fun for me when I'm stuck. :)

yeah - i tried it for the first time yesterday-i-think and it was interesting. normally, i do the greens-by-hand. they get kinda distracting when theres too many of them, imo.

I used to think so but then I read this page and it's been fun to try some of their techniques. http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/hints.php

ill have to check it out - thanx.

you're welcome :)

that explains why ive always had trouble distinguishing naked vs hidden pairs. i usually determine a pair (either naked or hidden) without having pre-filled the greens, so i dont track whether it was naked or hidden... hmm.

i didn't really understand the concept when I first read it but now that i've used autofill i have.

i found that autofill changed-my-approach... normally i do a lot of stuff in-my-head. only using greens when i cant-keep-track. it also explains why reds are useful as negatives (in help) which i didnt get before...

wellp, nice meeting you moo - i need to jet for a bit... take care.

i still don't really use reads. i found their naked triple and quad rule helps a lot. I never thought of that on my own. and their conjugate pair technique has really helped.

Thanks for the website, I look forward to checking it out. Yesterdays puzzle really stumped me.

nice meeting you too.

:)

go

done

bull shit