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Difficulty: Expert Saturday, July 12, 2008

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CHAT LOG for Saturday, July 12, 2008

12:00 am
trueheart11

go
12:15 am
trueheart11

done. no greens
1:50 am
Anne

found this easier than yesterdays easy
2:25 am
MrOoijer

one simple coloring solved it
2:55 am
eyeman

Done - not bad today. Have a great weekend, all.
4:22 am
angieplumptit

Mercy me!
4:24 am
tropiske

done, no greens but 1 wrong guess and then 1 lucky right guess.
4:54 am
Phil

start
5:03 am
Andy

oh my
5:03 am
Andy

Let us begin
5:03 am
angieplumptit

Done using the Bezanzon-Zwicker diagonal flip,and my guardian angle.
5:04 am
Andy

That methodology was shown to be unreliable to Hirschenbaumenheimerschmidt and Klom.
5:05 am
Andy

Then again... Klom then showed Hirschenbaumenheimerschmidt to be both unreliable and a bad tipper.
5:08 am
Phil

done, very easy then got stuck and had to take an educated guess
5:09 am
angieplumptit

Concentrate, Andrew. Don't let me interrupt your train of thought.
5:11 am
Andy

I don't need to concentrate. I have Fiddleman's Inverse Wiffle Method at my disposal.
5:23 am
Andy

Done
5:23 am
Andy

Fun puzzle.
5:24 am
Andy

Good day all!
5:34 am
kixx

go
6:18 am
kixx

done, no greens, pretty hard at the end
6:38 am
yul

Hello everybody
6:39 am
yul

congtats to kixx for not greening an expert
7:10 am
yul

ha!
7:11 am
yul

done. ho green, ho chains, no guesses: just two unique rectangles :)
7:12 am
yul

have a great day everybody
7:26 am
brittlefish.com

go
8:01 am
brittlefish.com

done. auto g+r.
8:24 am
Inge

done with greens
9:13 am
ypsigirl

done..........finally
9:38 am
smooth_pappa

start
9:53 am
smooth_pappa

done. No greens. This one didn't seem all that bad at all
9:53 am
smooth_pappa

for an expert, that is
11:05 am
Poochie

Done, no green, first time done that with an expert
11:09 am
Poochie

G'day Angie
12:13 pm
sandbox74

wow.. 2nd expert of the week... commence
12:27 pm
drwho

Difficulty score 47. No green. Two applications of AI chains at the end did it for me.
12:42 pm
sandbox74

terminate... no greens...
12:46 pm
sandbox74

my solving technique at the ended required using a unique rectangle twice
12:49 pm
Dave

Wow, it's been two years... have a lot of puzzles to catch up on!
4:20 pm
katmama

hmmm...why do i seem to be having a harder time than everyone else? feeling stuck at 29 filled...
4:30 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Go.
5:17 pm
UnikeTheHunter

31 NG. Stuck.
5:29 pm
UnikeTheHunter

Going again. It's an invariance principle. The minute I write "stuck" I find a breakthrough. Eerie.
5:31 pm
UnikeTheHunter

DING. First no green expert for me. Nothing too bad, just unique rectangles.
7:26 pm
sadie

hello all, may i ask what is going to sound like a very silly question?
7:29 pm
katmama

hey sadie - what's up?
7:30 pm
sadie

i think i answered it myself lol grid flashes pink when you are wrong correct?
7:30 pm
sadie

first time playing this grid
7:30 pm
sadie

er game
7:30 pm
katmama

:D
7:30 pm
katmama

that is absolutely correct
7:30 pm
sadie

ety :)
7:30 pm
sadie

does it flash anything if its right?
7:31 pm
katmama

nope!
7:32 pm
katmama

not sure if you know this, but i find it really helpful...if you hold down the shift key while you enter in a number, it enters in a little subscript number to help you keep track
7:33 pm
katmama

some people don't need that...i tend to need the little green numbers on puzzles that are hard and experts (and sometimes easier, depending on the puzzle!)
7:34 pm
sadie

is that what y'all are talking about green earlier??
7:34 pm
sadie

i didnt know that thanks
7:34 pm
katmama

yup! i tend to use that as a marker - if alot of people are saying no greens, it means i stand a chance :)
7:34 pm
sadie

lol
7:35 pm
katmama

:)
7:36 pm
sadie

oh cool now i got a bunch of green numbers in same box sheesh lol
7:37 pm
katmama

i never use this, but you can also hold down the alt key while putting in the number, and it puts a little red number in the box. i guess if you want to mark one color if it is a possibility and another color if it couldn't go there...i think that would get too confusing though
7:38 pm
sadie

I agree and i am easily confused hehe
7:38 pm
katmama

me too...i don't need any help with that
7:38 pm
sadie

looks like a Christmas tree or something
7:38 pm
katmama

ha!
7:39 pm
sadie

I'm one of these just has to try stuff cause it's there
7:39 pm
katmama

well, no other way to tell if it'll be helpful to use in the future, right?
7:40 pm
sadie

true
7:47 pm
katmama

ahhh....FINALLY done - gave in to greens and then needed two guesses. still working on getting good at those experts
7:47 pm
katmama

good luck, sadie! and welcome to ironsudoku!
7:50 pm
sadie

ty kat for all the tips and the welcome
8:47 pm
Limer

Expert, two in one week?
10:16 pm
helenkeller

go
10:36 pm
helenkeller

done with green at the end