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by Glyn
Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:44 pm
Forum: Samurai Contest
Topic: No Number 31
Replies: 18
Views: 17201

Hi Lynn

I'm sure Ruud will post it when he gets back from the day job, the one that pays the bills etc. Hang on and have a go at the addiction cure ones if you're desperate. Have another look in the afternoon your time, I recall there was a wee problem with the Explosion last week as well.
by Glyn
Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:22 am
Forum: Samurai Contest
Topic: Ronin
Replies: 4
Views: 7367

Ruud It was incredibly hard, I think it could be left as a long term project. I think that either some players may have missed it as it wasn't posted on the variants page, and others may have tried solving entirely without bifurcation in which case I think they will need more time. (probably a lot m...
by Glyn
Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:20 pm
Forum: Samurai Contest
Topic: Ronin
Replies: 4
Views: 7367

I wonder how everyone is getting on with this beauty, it did everything that Ruud promised.

I have solved it by bifurcation, it was a mammoth effort, and there really is only one solution. Now to find a simpler route.
by Glyn
Tue May 29, 2007 10:44 pm
Forum: Weekly Assassins
Topic: Assassin 52
Replies: 25
Views: 15421

Thanks for your wishes Cathy, she has Alzheimers' so things can be fraught, my dad had it as well. Para As for the 50V2 JSudoku can do it from where I've got it, but the fan on the laptop still goes ballistic. If you carry on with T&E on the two cell cages round the edge you can slowly pick them...
by Glyn
Tue May 29, 2007 8:05 pm
Forum: Weekly Assassins
Topic: Assassin 52
Replies: 25
Views: 15421

Hi All Sorry I am not able to participate much at the moment in the tags, as Ed knows I have quite a few problems with my mum which are getting worse so I might not be able to chip in as much. Hope to catch up soon with the ones I'm missing. With that in mind my efforts on the V2 of Assassin 50 have...
by Glyn
Mon May 28, 2007 9:07 pm
Forum: Texas Jigsaw Killers
Topic: Texas Jigsaw Killer 30
Replies: 7
Views: 7555

LoL Pincer sounds a good name Mike, blame me for the LoLR pun. Gets my vote if Ed approves.
by Glyn
Thu May 17, 2007 10:41 pm
Forum: Weekly Assassins
Topic: Assassin 50
Replies: 18
Views: 13792

Thanks to Para and Cathy. Both much more elegant offerings than the hodge/podge of T&E that I have been using on the other one.
by Glyn
Thu May 17, 2007 12:45 am
Forum: Weekly Assassins
Topic: Assassin 50
Replies: 18
Views: 13792

Hope to finish V2 tomorrow. Many steps on scrap paper. No more placements yet. Sumocue can still not complete it with pattern checking!
by Glyn
Wed May 16, 2007 6:23 pm
Forum: Weekly Assassins
Topic: Assassin 50
Replies: 18
Views: 13792

Specially for Cathy. Tryfurcated Walkthrough of V2 up to the first block of placements. JSudoku can solve from here if you wish or carry on yourself, I have removed the main blocking cage combo. But there is still much to do.:shock: My goal was to solve the complete perimeter of the puzzles given th...
by Glyn
Tue May 15, 2007 11:45 pm
Forum: Puzzles
Topic: Puzzles with only 18 clues.
Replies: 3
Views: 5273

If you have a look over at the Players Forum you'll find an ongoing discussion about 17/18 clue puzzles under General/Puzzles. Gordon Royle and others are posting info on that forum so you can fill in a bit more on the techniques that Ruud mentioned and the latest findings.
by Glyn
Tue May 15, 2007 7:20 pm
Forum: Weekly Assassins
Topic: Assassin 50
Replies: 18
Views: 13792

Is anybody having any luck with the V2, without extensive 'tryfurcation'? I may be able to use this method again to crack it, lots :roll: of scribbled notes to write out neatly.
by Glyn
Sat May 12, 2007 5:01 pm
Forum: Weekly Assassins
Topic: Assassin 50
Replies: 18
Views: 13792

Thanks for the V0.2 Ruud, I did it before I had the beer though. I thought I would point out a little discussion that's going on over at Djape looking at Killer Wings and Loops. You'll find under Other as '3 vanilla techniques: Y-Wing, XY-Wing and XYZ-Wing'. Three of you will already know about it, ...
by Glyn
Sat May 12, 2007 12:02 pm
Forum: Support
Topic: Clueless Helper 1.1.1.0: Paste function.
Replies: 2
Views: 4888

The Paste facility only works for the Samurai, so it's useful if you have a puzzle from somewhere else. The Clueless are, I think, unique to Ruuds' site. To load a Clueless (and this will work for Samurai as well) select menu option 'Game' then 'Sudocue.net'. The drop down menu let's you pick any of...
by Glyn
Sat May 12, 2007 2:36 am
Forum: Clueless Explosions
Topic: Explosion 44 - Blue Puzzle not "center dot?" varia
Replies: 4
Views: 5976

Hi Amy The only grids which are centre dot are the 9 outer ones. The blue one is solvable by standard techniques. On the Explosion page Ruud quotes each of the 9 Sudokus is also a Center-Dot Sudoku, because the 9 blue cells must also contain digits 1 through 9 Note he didn't say ten grids. On the bl...
by Glyn
Sat May 12, 2007 12:40 am
Forum: Weekly Assassins
Topic: Assassin 50
Replies: 18
Views: 13792

Hi Cathy I guess that's right, I am struggling with it here. Tried making a huge implication chain round the outside, knocks out a few candidates but nothing worth reporting. Think I'll have a look at the standard first maybe I'll get some inspiration from that. The cage patterns are the same. All t...