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by Tomi
Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:43 pm
Forum: Daily Sudoku Nightmare & Archive
Topic: n00bs & daily nightmare sudokus (Sept. 15th)
Replies: 10
Views: 23503

Thanks guys. I've studied some of the techniques. I just completed today's (23rd) Daily Nightmare without ANY guessing. I don't know which of the advanced techniques I used, but this time I made a whole bunch of small numbers in the columns whenever I got stuck. Helped me a lot. It took 50 minutes t...
by Tomi
Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:45 pm
Forum: Daily Sudoku Nightmare & Archive
Topic: n00bs & daily nightmare sudokus (Sept. 15th)
Replies: 10
Views: 23503

Ruud wrote:
When you do not check the alternative, you are guessing, which is even more frowned upon by the Sudoku community.
Okey-dokey. Thou shalt smite me and I shalt not guess numbers anymore. :wink:
by Tomi
Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:52 am
Forum: Daily Sudoku Nightmare & Archive
Topic: n00bs & daily nightmare sudokus (Sept. 15th)
Replies: 10
Views: 23503

Re: Maybe we can reconstruct it ...

Hello again, Tomi! I looked at your picture, but couldn't really make much sense out of it. So I thought I'd take a slightly different tack. I started the puzzle from the beginning and applied all the "elementary" techniques that you described. After a bit I get to this point. *----------...
by Tomi
Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:00 pm
Forum: Daily Sudoku Nightmare & Archive
Topic: n00bs & daily nightmare sudokus (Sept. 15th)
Replies: 10
Views: 23503

Hi Tomi , Many players often use advanced solving techniques without knowing their names. Yeah, I actually thought about this, but then again, those techniques and methods sounded so complex, I thought that maybe I was using use some of the techniques without knowing it or their names. I wouldn't r...
by Tomi
Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:05 am
Forum: Daily Sudoku Nightmare & Archive
Topic: n00bs & daily nightmare sudokus (Sept. 15th)
Replies: 10
Views: 23503

n00bs & daily nightmare sudokus (Sept. 15th)

Hi guys, The daily nightmare site says: "Puzzles found on this page are extremely difficult and require the full arsenal of techniques available". So, the thing is, I really don't know any of the advanced techiques and in fact, I visited this site today for the first time and tried to read...