01-07-2005, 00:43
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Sudoku
It's a number puzzle where you have to fit the numbers 1-9 into every row, column and 3x3 sub-square of a 9x9 grid.
I'm absolutely hooked on them- is anyone else?
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02-07-2005, 02:07
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Re: Sudoku
I've tried them and while they do test the old grey cells, I can't see why people get so excitable about them.
I much prefer the crosswords without clues - the ones where each letter is substituted by a number.
Still, each to their on, I guess....
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02-07-2005, 15:53
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Re: Sudoku
Agh. It seems pretty much every newspaper - broadsheet & tabloid - now has Sudoko.
Much prefer cryptic crosswords.
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02-07-2005, 15:57
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Re: Sudoku
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Agh. It seems pretty much every newspaper - broadsheet & tabloid - now has Sudoko.
Much prefer cryptic crosswords.
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Give me a crossword anyday  Hopefully the sudoko craze will fade away soon.
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02-07-2005, 16:41
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Re: Sudoku
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Agh. It seems pretty much every newspaper - broadsheet & tabloid - now has Sudoko.
Much prefer cryptic crosswords.
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Give me a crossword anyday Hopefully the sudoko craze will fade away soon. |
/reaches out and hits paul and matt round teh head with big sudoku book
I love them- they're a good logic test and I'm sh-te with words  so cryptic crosswords and those number things are pretty much out. Can do general knowledge crosswords though...
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03-07-2005, 00:54
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Re: Sudoku
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I've tried them and while they do test the old grey cells, I can't see why people get so excitable about them.
I much prefer the crosswords without clues - the ones where each letter is substituted by a number.
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I agree with the "what's the big deal?" comment, although I prefer doing the Telegraph cryptic crossword to the "crossword without clues" type.
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I love them- they're a good logic test
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Yeah, but if I wanted to solve a Sudoku puzzle I'd write a recursive algorithm and let the computer get on with it whilst I did the crossword! 
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03-07-2005, 10:42
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Yeah, but if I wanted to solve a Sudoku puzzle I'd write a recursive algorithm and let the computer get on with it whilst I did the crossword! |
There's no need!
http://www.sudokusolver.co.uk/
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03-07-2005, 11:15
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Re: Sudoku
Sure this has been done here before ... will look into it
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A search by name revealed nothing, I'm sure its here though 
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03-07-2005, 22:19
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Re: Sudoku
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Yeah, but if I wanted to solve a Sudoku puzzle I'd write a recursive algorithm and let the computer get on with it whilst I did the crossword! |
There's no need! |
Yeah, but I'd do it myself anyway, just to prove I can!
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03-07-2005, 22:32
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Re: Sudoku
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why would you need to cheat? wahts the point. Must admit i like to spend 5-10 mins doing them if i get time.
This one was interesting http://www.sudoku.org.uk/PDF/Dion_Cube.pdf
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03-07-2005, 22:34
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Re: Sudoku
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Yeah, but if I wanted to solve a Sudoku puzzle I'd write a recursive algorithm and let the computer get on with it whilst I did the crossword! |
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Yeah, but I'd do it myself anyway, just to prove I can! |
Still a touch on the sad side though.
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Re: Sudoku
I've discovered them
At first, I was just bunging in numbers at random, and quickly ending up in a mess. Frustrated, the puzzle would be torn to bits, stamped on, and put in the bin. But the defeat gnaws at you. So I went online and discovered that it's about logic - nothing to do with guessing or even mathematics <spit> And now I can do them
At my time of life, I have to be thinking of dementia whilst I can remember what dementia is and think of it. Keep the old grey cells ticking over.
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08-11-2006, 22:39
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Re: Sudoku
kin'ell GC, that's a hell of a bump!
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08-11-2006, 22:41
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Re: Sudoku
Well it's them that shall be obeyed - only likely to end up in trouble for starting a new thread, or the older and new threads merged
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08-11-2006, 22:47
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Re: Sudoku
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Hehe.
Wear the award with pride... I don't give it often unlike them most helpful fings.
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