The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[ghfick]

We have stte, lclste and btte for the end of a solution path. Almost always, there is a start to solution paths for puzzles that is not interesting. For most puzzles, we could have puzzle lists where the puzzle starts with the first 'hard' step and we can skip with etn -Easy Till Now. Of course, almost always, these puzzles are not minimal. No matter.

[dobrichev]

etn can be thought of as comparing a beautiful lady when she's in the office to when she's on the beach. Some beauties only inhabit the beach and we call them Pencilmark Sudoku. They're not as popular, but some of them, minimal or not, are much more exotic.