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expert...

this one was hard

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pretty tough

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11 filled, stuck.....

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Difficulty score 33. Not very hard for an expert, but perhaps should get a higher score than 33.

easy with greens and 1 guess

relatively straightforward without sweating. One green.

more like a medium

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hello everybody

hi yul

morning

done

definitely used greens

bah, 10 in, still staring blankly :)

:) it's not an easy one today.

I love finding hidden triples without green

no grins

no greens either. hidden triple was enough to finish

still waking up still blurry

walk through the columns on the left

Bummers. Expert.

took a while to unravel. seemed to solve starting at the left edge.

at the most part yes with the left

but the answer is a 6 that does not belong

but i won't say where is don't belong

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You pulling my leg, caveman?

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10. Stuck.

Nuts for now. Gotta take my daughter to school.

yeah, I'm at 10 too.

Unike: try an X-wing

I got the first 11 without green, then immediately saw the 12th when I filled in the green. After than there was a 6 and a 4 that took some tricks to find and then everything fell into place.

ok, I have 12 also. and how did you place those 6 and 4 you speak of? the usual tricks, or a guessing chain?

I used alternate inference chains.

'kay thanks

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done!

done. with greens.

hello fellow suduko heads!

because I consider you all experts in this field...how do you pronounce "sudoku"?

sue-DO-ku

my brain must be seriously fried

i've greened up twice and used forcing chains starting from a cell with 2 numbers and both ways i got contradictions, BOTH TIMES

i am Irked

i thought at least if i messed up the initial greening, re-greening would fix it

what's "green up" mean?

grrrrr

it means i marked the possibilities in the cells using shift-click

wow? never knew you could do that :)

you can use alt-click for red numbers too.

helpful in doing forcing chains

I've been printing them out and using pencils

unless of course you are, as i am, violating Hurshy's #1 Rule of Sudoku

what's the #1 rule?

SUDOKU MUST ALWAYS BE DONE ON A CLEAR HEAD

this is mondo maddening. but what else am i going to do for the next 45 minutes?

this must be what it feels like to be stupid.

no offense out there to all the stupid people who may be ordering duck with mango salsa

ROAST duck with mango salsa, excuse me.

thanks to Krys10 for the hint about the x-wing

krys probably did sudoku on a clear head.

not sure my head could be ever described as clear (or perhaps it's all-too clear...), but I imagine it helps

it so does. i wish i could make mine clear but it just ain't gonna happen right now. i'll just have to hope for clear enough.

good luck with it - the experts can be maddening!

usually they're fine, it's the mediums i end up doing over and over

*fingers crossed*

aha. on my third attempt, i finally did not screw up however i screwed up the first two times! yay.

i got it on my second try!!!!!

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hi

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heya

how goes you? I gave up on babble as my stupid net is not being nice

i am very sad, my pomeranian died last week - not even 3 years old, such a sweetie, so sorry if i am not chatty

Oh im so sorry about the puppy. That is very sad :( hugs so many hugs for you

ty

Very sorry to hear about your puppy ... 3 years old is well ... I feel for you :(

tx

helen - are you still here?

man, easy expert

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must sleep

done!

and I mean done!

just finished the archives!

HARD!