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Difficulty: Hard Monday, June 11, 2007

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CHAT LOG for Monday, June 11, 2007

12:51 am
WHB

Done
1:33 am
himuran

done
4:58 am
sprite

strange indeed, easier than yesterday's easy. No greens, no problems.
6:57 am
smooth_pappa

go
7:04 am
smooth_pappa

done. No greens
7:45 am
ypsigirl

done..........easy!
8:16 am
drwho

Difficulty score 22. Naked and hidden pair analysis needed.
8:34 am
PuttPutt

Done but had to use greenies
9:09 am
spellacked

go
9:10 am
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
9:23 am
OrangeSlice

First time I've used an xy-chain without greens. Granted, it was totally unnecessary and didn't make any difference whatsoever.
9:24 am
UnikeTheHunter

You improve little by little.
9:24 am
spellacked

extremely easy with greenies -- nothing sneaky here
9:26 am
OrangeSlice

Indeed; storing pairs and conjugates in your head leads to some interesting things.
9:26 am
PuttPutt

Hi folks, is there a way of getting the greens entered without having to do them one at a time , please ?
9:26 am
PuttPutt

I find its very time consuming
9:27 am
OrangeSlice

Copy the javascript from UnikeTheHunter's profile into your address bar and hit enter.
9:27 am
UnikeTheHunter

I'll give you my autogreens. Plug it into the URL getting field of Firefox and click the green triangle.
9:28 am
UnikeTheHunter

javascript:for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value == '') {ClearTinySquares(i,j);}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value != '') {var tmp_value = grid[i][j].value;for (k=1; k<=9; k++) {for (l=1; l<=9; l++) {if (grid[k][l].value == '') {if ((Math.ceil(i/3) == Math.ceil(k/3) && Math.ceil(j/3) == Math.ceil(l/3)) || i == k || j == l) {grid[k][l]['mini'][tmp_value] = -1;}}}}}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) { for (j=1; j<=9; j++) { if (grid[i][j].value == '') { for (k=1; k<=9; k++) { if (grid[i][j]['mini'][k] != -1) grid[i][j]['mini'][k] = 1; }}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value == '') {for (k=1; k<=9; k++) {if (grid[i][j]['mini'][k] != 1) grid[i][j]['mini'][k] = 0;}}}}PopulatePuzzle(grid);void(0);
9:29 am
UnikeTheHunter

It works with Firefox, not with Internet Explorer.
9:30 am
PuttPutt

ok thanks will try it,
9:30 am
OrangeSlice

There's a workaround for IE, but I don't have the code on hand.
9:38 am
PuttPutt

I must be real dumm I'm not getting it
9:39 am
PuttPutt

Yeah I have, wow thanks a bunch
9:39 am
OrangeSlice

You can save it as a bookmark and just click on it to run the greens script as well.
9:40 am
PuttPutt

wonderful thanks, so much
9:40 am
UnikeTheHunter

Clever.
9:50 am
UnikeTheHunter

Does anybody have an autogreens that doesn't put back in greens that you've already eliminated by hand?
9:55 am
OrangeSlice

Seems possible to do, but I don't know of one.
10:12 am
UnikeTheHunter

27 and stuck. I exploited one pair, no greens.
10:14 am
spreadeagle

Cool! No greens! Finding a "4" was the key for me.
10:14 am
UnikeTheHunter

Got all my4's. But it didn't open up.
10:16 am
spreadeagle

I don't know what to tell you. With 27 filled, it should just be a matter of crosshatching from there.
10:17 am
UnikeTheHunter

Maybe I'm missing an easy crosshatch.
10:18 am
UnikeTheHunter

Oh, yea. Found an easy block crosshatch.
10:23 am
UnikeTheHunter

Done, no greens. Only one pair exploited. First no green "hard" for me. Feeling great!
10:31 am
spreadeagle

WTG Unike!
10:59 am
RodeoRogue

go
11:05 am
brianarn

Grats Unike! That's cool. :)
1:54 pm
Minski

Done! I used greenies but not everywhere, more to organize my thoughts than anything else. Pretty easy though for a hard.
6:00 pm
Zugzug7

go
6:05 pm
Zugzug7

done. not too difficult
6:11 pm
helenkeller

go
6:27 pm
helenkeller

DONE
6:27 pm
helenkeller

used greens, i think i made it harder than it needed to be
7:05 pm
andy99

oh no, I've got 4 left to do in the top right, no checkpoint, and wrong
7:06 pm
andy99

never managed to do that before
7:06 pm
andy99

never managed to do that before
7:26 pm
Andy

99 eh? Does that make me 0? :)
7:32 pm
hurshy

all i ever wanted was a spoon, a spoon
7:36 pm
kittybat

for the ice cream?
7:36 pm
hurshy

i don't know... it's a song
7:37 pm
kittybat

ahhh. but it's hot here, ice cream sounds nice
7:37 pm
hurshy

ok
8:04 pm
Andy

I just had ice cream. And now I have a sudoku puzzle to do...
8:05 pm
Andy

ahhh... a hard one... Let there be Go
8:19 pm
Andy

Done
8:19 pm
Andy

Not too bad. Used greens because my brain hurts.