here is the distribution of 6x6s by clue count, and how many that were able to be converted to 9x9s
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clues, unique 6x6s, convertible to 9x9s
8 0 0
9 103 2
10 5323 1630
11 38778 19053
12 84895 49736
13 101229 64816
14 98356 68931
15 82129 61720
16 58576 46568
17 35903 29937
18 19622 16934
19 9715 8389
20 4613 4093
21 2075 1737
22 625 573
23 242 215
24 59 58
25 14 14
here is the distribution by skfr rating. note that there may be some differences between skfr and se, such as most or all skfr 6.9's being se 7+ (haven't found one that's not yet) and some 7.7's being 7.8, a few 8.2's being 8.3 and so on.
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1.7 1456
2.0 31165
2.5 1173
2.6 19633
2.8 1301
3.0 2857
3.2 3068
3.4 378
3.6 15
3.8 56
4.2 101278
4.4 6682
4.5 7002
4.6 1372
4.7 18
5.6 12372
5.7 2854
5.8 43
6.2 505
6.5 2157
6.6 102638
6.7 4603
6.8 4571
6.9 5057
7.0 3318
7.1 46282
7.2 12858
7.3 64
7.5 2
7.6 44
7.7 24
7.8 4
8.2 44
8.3 149
8.4 9
here is the distribution of top ratings by clue count. the top line refers to clue count in the converted 9x9s, the next line to the original 6x6s
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se\cl9 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65
se\cl6 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 total
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8.4 8 1 9
8.3 4 25 71 17 15 10 7 149
8.2 42 2 44
7.8 4 4
7.7 3 7 12 2 24
7.6 2 4 14 12 10 2 44
7.5 2 2
7.3 34 8 18 4 64
7.2 110 1423 3459 3019 2295 1531 686 255 58 19 12858
7.1 374 5589 11268 10186 8677 5383 2846 1257 600 60 14 46282
and finally here are the nine SE 8.4's. the top one is the 16-clue and is a (non-minimal) diamond that solves in one step. the other 8 are 12-clue puzzles that have ED=3.0 but have a much longer solve path, and i wonder if they're all basically isomorphic. numbers 1 and 5-8 are new; the others were found in the previous batch by 1to9only twice each, as there are two places to get rid of an initial single in each one.
original 6x6 format:
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1...56...1..21...5.35..13.1.6..62.1.
....5.4....3...5.1...34.3.2.1..6..3.
.2......61..2.4...61.....4.6.5.6..3.
.2.4....6...2.4...61......2..5..123.
.....64...2.23...1..5..2...61....2.4
1....6....2..3..6.6.5.4....61....2.4
..3....5.1....456...5..234....5.1...
..34...5.....3..6..1.3.234....5.1...
1...5......3...5.1...34...2..556...4
converted 9x9s:
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8...19567...7..81919785623498...1725.15..79833729856417.1.6.398.68.9.172239178456
....8.9579....7834487953126...8.9571...37.4898795412637.8.9.312.6..3.798392718645
.8....927..97..8162671893459.8...47271....689624897153.7.6.8594.9..3.768846975231
.8.9..247..7...8969264871358.9...47267....981214879563..8..5729..279.318791238654
.....89679...7.82448792613583...2719..9..7582275891346...78.691...2.9478798614253
8....9167....7.892197826345.8..9.6737.9.6.458635748921...68.719...9.7284978214536
..8...937.9.7..815357189246..957.468..5..879287496215398....3747.1...589543897621
..89..347.7....895953487126.8..9.673.3.7.821971936245889....7345.7...981341879562
8...9.157.....7893197853246...9.8571...37.984978541632..9..572878...9465562784319
a summary of hardest high-clue puzzles has been posted to my "maximum clues for each se rating" thread.
i'm not sure what to do with the remaining 167205 non-convertibles. maybe i'll leave the task of re-rating the entire batch with se-modified-for-6x6s to 1to9only to work his magic
