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Difficulty: Hard Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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CHAT LOG for Wednesday, June 6, 2007

12:27 am
himuran

done
12:41 am
itzie

done (finally)
12:50 am
WHB

Done
5:36 am
Andy

go
5:52 am
Andy

done
5:54 am
peternl

hi all
6:08 am
eyeman

not too easy today. Greens and red do the trick.
6:56 am
tester45

test
6:58 am
smooth_pappa

go
7:09 am
smooth_pappa

done... used greens part way through
7:14 am
herinfernallady

SMOTH?
7:14 am
herinfernallady

smooth you there?
7:17 am
Goldies

do you get clues from here about the puzzle?
7:18 am
Goldies

bye
7:20 am
yul

No way! I nearly finished and refreshed so have to start again!
7:21 am
yul

find 3 pairs, Goldies and you are sorted
7:24 am
yul

and look at the middle first
7:41 am
ypsigirl

WOot WoOt DoNe!
7:45 am
herinfernallady

hey yps
7:58 am
drwho

Difficulty score 50. Lots of hidden pairs and some naked pair too.
8:00 am
herinfernallady

ta
8:04 am
drwho

If my scores mean anything, that was the hardest of the Hard.
8:06 am
Bri413

done, one guess no greens
8:26 am
sprite

I think I prefer greens over guessing
8:30 am
herinfernallady

hey sprite
8:30 am
sprite

hey lady :)
8:31 am
herinfernallady

hey im going to bed enjoy
8:31 am
sprite

sleep well and sweet dreams, lady
8:32 am
herinfernallady

i cant get this one either
8:32 am
sprite

so far so good, but I certainly need greens
8:34 am
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
8:44 am
UnikeTheHunter

Only 4. Going green.
8:48 am
sprite

greens really help on this one
8:52 am
sprite

yay, solved.
8:56 am
Phil

stuck after 8 any ideas?
8:58 am
UnikeTheHunter

I got 10 with no ideas.
8:59 am
UnikeTheHunter

Oh, great! I see a hidden pair.
9:01 am
UnikeTheHunter

...which didn't help much.
9:09 am
UnikeTheHunter

Oh, MAN?!?
9:09 am
OrangeSlice

Easy, there.
9:13 am
lawfully

Can't say it's easy, but it's doable
9:20 am
UnikeTheHunter

It's an odd feeling, knowing there are other people staring at the same numbers as me, ready to throw something.
9:25 am
OrangeSlice

hmm, will have to finish this one later.
9:25 am
OrangeSlice

Good luck.
9:26 am
UnikeTheHunter

Bye.
9:40 am
UnikeTheHunter

Found a triplet. Not much use, however.
9:41 am
UnikeTheHunter

No, it was a quadruplet.
9:42 am
UnikeTheHunter

Oh, it WAS useful.
9:42 am
UnikeTheHunter

Very useful!
9:50 am
spazzy

i see that quadruplet, but so far it's only given me 2 numbers
9:50 am
spazzy

never mind
9:51 am
UnikeTheHunter

Stuck again.
9:51 am
spazzy

now i have 3 numbers
9:51 am
UnikeTheHunter

I think I got 3 or 4.
9:52 am
spazzy

hmm...
9:59 am
spazzy

ah! there we go....look in the more left columns
10:00 am
spazzy

adios, all. good luck.
10:03 am
UnikeTheHunter

Okay. I think I'm going to town now!
10:04 am
UnikeTheHunter

Maybe not. I put in a few and then clicked my autogreens. It put back in a lot of things I had eliminated. Now it looks worse!
10:11 am
UnikeTheHunter

Got it. Feeling quite good.
10:20 am
st31

finally...
10:43 am
moedog

Ugh
10:55 am
smdnjv

How do you click auto greens??
11:15 am
bunnyvicious

go
11:31 am
Krys10

smdnjv - click on my profile and there is javascript and instructions about how to do autofill for greens
11:31 am
bunnyvicious

done
12:55 pm
spellacked

go
1:27 pm
spellacked

aargh - stuck after 10 numbers, used greens, lots of pairs left but not enough for this to break. Anybody got a hint on where I might be missing a hidden pair?
1:43 pm
spellacked

finally got it, there were several more hidden pairs
1:49 pm
janiceb75

those hidden pairs were the pits! I did find them though and I'm done with that one!!! :o)
2:25 pm
smdnjv

Thanks Krys10....!!
2:28 pm
denglis1

smdnjv I tried Krys10's javascript and it didn't work. What did you do to get it to work?
2:42 pm
selenav

done, that was kinda hurt my head just thinking about it again
3:10 pm
Zugzug7

go. I hope this one is easier than yesterdays.
3:47 pm
Zugzug7

done. another doozie.
5:31 pm
helenkeller

go
5:31 pm
h

if you are using ie6, the javascript is too long. try the following: javascript: var script=document.createElement('script');scr
ipt.src='http://www.brittlefish.com/code/isi
e.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head'
)[0].appendChild(script); gautofill(); void(0);
5:32 pm
h

sorry hk - gl.
5:33 pm
helenkeller

tx- but i just use wetware
5:33 pm
h

:)
5:33 pm
helenkeller

:)
5:50 pm
andy99

for those people that use that script to auto-fill, do you use it several times over?
5:52 pm
h

yup - as itens fill in it is easy to hit go-again to autoupdate the items. unless of course ive spent a lot of time culling-down an unwieldy autofill.
5:52 pm
andy99

I just tried it, and it doesn't auto-adjust for your later entries, of course, so it seems to me to add clutter
5:53 pm
h

just resubmit it and it will then auto-adjust...
5:54 pm
andy99

ok, but I reckon that will take up a lot of the time it "saves"
5:54 pm
h

6 of one... :)
6:00 pm
moe

just copy the script to your computers clipboard, paste it into the browser address bar, fill in for a while, when you are ready to run the script again, simply press ctrl-r on a pc or cmd-r on a mac
6:01 pm
brianarn

You could also just paste the javascript into a bookmark and put that on your toolbar, really.
6:05 pm
brianarn

The problem with an autogreener is that it's going to be aggressive with your greens, so it'll put out too many usually. it saves speed in some ways, but, on the whole, you still wind up doing a good bit of work. That being said, I've played with 'em and they can be handy at times. :)
6:06 pm
andy99

I've cleared it again
6:10 pm
helenkeller

rats!
6:11 pm
andy99

how many rats?
6:11 pm
helenkeller

all of them!
6:11 pm
andy99

hee hee, what have you done?
6:11 pm
andy99

hee hee, what have you done?
6:12 pm
helenkeller

i wish i knew - but i had to start over :(
6:12 pm
andy99

how did I post that twice?
6:20 pm
brianarn

50 to go before I'm done! Woo! Also pushing up to expert, almost.
6:20 pm
brianarn

50 to go before I'm done! Woo! Also pushing up to expert, almost.
6:21 pm
hurshy

woohoo, a hard, they're the easiest!
6:21 pm
brianarn

Hmm - now I sent one twice. Weird.
6:21 pm
andy99

course they are, whereas I'm stuck on an easy one from April
6:27 pm
hurshy

i'm so sad i don't have geico anymore
6:31 pm
brianarn

Why's that?
6:32 pm
hurshy

the commercials are so great
6:34 pm
jawilke

go
6:35 pm
hurshy

speak of the caveman...
6:38 pm
brianarn

hehe, that's funny
6:38 pm
jawilke

done
6:39 pm
jawilke

what's up hurshy?
6:39 pm
brianarn

So easy a caveman could do it?
6:39 pm
jawilke

guess so
6:39 pm
hurshy

what's up? let's see, my mom's mailbox exploded yesterday...
6:40 pm
jawilke

wasn't me
6:40 pm
hurshy

no, i suppose not.
6:45 pm
hurshy

don't vote for fred dalton thompson for president
6:45 pm
hurshy

i don't want to lose him off law and order
9:04 pm
grama

I must admit, I don't know how to handle this grid. I usually just do the easy ones. This is way beyond my capabilities.
11:46 pm
h

i finally went pro and caught up on all the random missing days from 2007 back to oct-1 06 (which is an expert im leaving alone for awhile). just happy to be pro and able to do the archives... yay!