"Deadly" Killer 23-12-05

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"Deadly" Killer 23-12-05

Postby CathyW » Fri Dec 23, 2005 12:35 pm

55 minutes! They are having a laugh - nothing deadly about this puzzle at all. Took me 10 minutes - let's hope we get some properly deadly or even tough ones in the Christmas selection being produced tomorrow.
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Postby Bigtone53 » Fri Dec 23, 2005 4:39 pm

let's hope we get some properly deadly or even tough ones in the Christmas selection being produced tomorrow


Agreed. There seems to be nothing between these rather straightforward Deadlies and djape's unbelievably hard ones.:(
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Postby Pi » Fri Dec 23, 2005 8:19 pm

13:30 for me

24.54% of the recomended time

My best ever was 8:41on a 40 minute puzzle

21.7% of the recomended time

maybee oneday the times will give us a nemesis that really takes an hout
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Postby nd » Sat Dec 24, 2005 10:00 pm

They have got to be kidding. This one is only a step away from fill-in-the-blank.
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Postby Pi » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:00 am

On christmas Eve there was a 60 minute puzzle whicxh i did in 8:42. They really need to give us harder puzzles
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Postby SammyJ » Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:28 pm

I think they are fairly hard. I've been doing them for ages and they rarely take me longer than 15 minutes, and usually under 10. But for someone new to them they are definitely hard enough.

As we've seen with normal Sudokus, they have found it necessary to give an easier one and a harder one each day, as they cater to newer and more experienced audiences that way.

I think they would have trouble finding a lot more space for two Killers a day, so they have to find a medium.

It would be good if they found some very hard Killers (having worked out how to rate them properly) and published them on a particular day.

I'm hooked on these Slitherlinks now, and have found a decent site from which to get them.
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