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I really enjoy tackling these puzzles but sometimes have a tough time with the tough ones. If you enjoy doing these and sometimes get stuck, as I do, here is a good page that may help you. I found it very helpful.

http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/hints.php

Sir_Galahad wrote:I really enjoy tackling these puzzles but sometimes have a tough time with the tough ones. If you enjoy doing these and sometimes get stuck, as I do, here is a good page that may help you. I found it very helpful.

http://www.angusj.com/sudoku/hints.php

Good stuff, SirG. I'm pretty sure the one in the Sunday garbagewrapper was like this:

There are some puzzles which can't be solved using simple logic and the only way to solve them is by resorting to trial-and-error.

I just about wore the paper out erasing and finally gave up and waited for the Monday solution. Once I knew for sure all the numbers in the top right box, I could finally solve the rest.

I've been doing the Hard and Evil Sudokus every day on the Yahoo Games site. I can do one or at the most two Evils a week without using the "Allow multiple numbers to be typed into each cell" feature in the Options. The other days, I have to use it.

Here's the URL just in case maybe SirG's interested:

http://uk.games.yahoo.com/sudoku.html

SportsFan68 wrote:I've been doing the Hard and Evil Sudokus every day on the Yahoo Games site. I can do one or at the most two Evils a week without using the "Allow multiple numbers to be typed into each cell" feature in the Options. The other days, I have to use it.

Here's the URL just in case maybe SirG's interested:

http://uk.games.yahoo.com/sudoku.html

Thanks, Sprots. I will certainly give it a go.

Eh, my sister Rosemary (used to post occasionally as "Rmadillo") is hooked on those things. I personally prefer my crossword puzzles with words and letters, as God & Mother Nature intended!

I don't understand why people compare Sudoku to Crossword puzzles. Crosswords are language/vocabulary puzzles. Sudoku is a logic puzzle.

Do you know a three letter word with a 6 in it? [/Randy Hickey]

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I don't understand why people compare Sudoku to Crossword puzzles. Crosswords are language/vocabulary puzzles. Sudoku is a logic puzzle.

They compare them because they look similar.

My Mom was a great crossword puzzle person. Always did them in ink. She couldn't do Sudokus. She felt at her age nothing new was entering her brain. She sat down next to me last year and watched me logic it out, evening talking me through it, but couldn't do one herself. It frustrated her. Perhaps it was her illness, and her brain wasn't functioning. She finally said, "oh hell, life's too short" and went out and swam 20 laps. It made me roar!

VAdame wrote:Eh, my sister Rosemary (used to post occasionally as "Rmadillo") is hooked on those things. I personally prefer my crossword puzzles with words and letters, as God & Mother Nature intended!

I do the daily garbagewrapper's Jumble and Crossword also. Unlike the Sudoku, which gets harder every day starting with supereasy on Monday, the other two are about the same difficulty every day..

One thing I love about the Crossword, it still uses words that Mom taught me were likely to come up -- ewe, ali, erne, eyrie, eerie, cay, ens, ems, hie, nee, obi, Io ... The list goes on. I did have one the other day that Mom never did -- a mythical tree, an Ent.

My Mom was a great crossword puzzle person. Always did them in ink. She couldn't do Sudokus.

Lily, were we separated at birth? Sounds like my Mom!

Ah, to be in Crossword Puzzle World, a sere land where serfs known as esnes sit around on their stoas watching the erns fly with their alae -- they wear obis, and save up their rials to go and visit their ruler, the Aga.

VAdame wrote:

My Mom was a great crossword puzzle person. Always did them in ink. She couldn't do Sudokus.

Lily, were we separated at birth? Sounds like my Mom!

Ah, to be in Crossword Puzzle World, a sere land where serfs known as esnes sit around on their stoas watching the erns fly with their alae -- they wear obis, and save up their rials to go and visit their ruler, the Aga.

Jeff does the Crossword Puzzles, I like Sudoku. It works well for us, we don't compete for the same part of the newspaper.

I only do Sudoku on planes. The time just flies by.

I had a flight attendant who wanted to check my work. She said no one ever does them right.

I let her.

peacock2121 wrote:I only do Sudoku on planes. The time just flies by.

I had a flight attendant who wanted to check my work. She said no one ever does them right.

I let her.

I should be so lucky.

Sir_Galahad wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:I only do Sudoku on planes. The time just flies by.

I had a flight attendant who wanted to check my work. She said no one ever does them right.

I let her.

I should be so lucky.

Just be a little bit perkier and you could get that lucky.

peacock2121 wrote:
Just be a little bit perkier and you could get that lucky.

I can't speak for Sirge but the difference between me anf Pea is a bunch more than a "little bit perkier".

Of course I also fly USAirways most of the tiem - haven't seen many flight attendents I want to get interested in anything I'm doing.