The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[hazza]

Oh, thanks very much for that, what a brain bender!

Luna

Happy to help!

HaZZa

[Pi]

thanx for setting up a junior forum

You're welcome.

I did my first difficult rated one yesturday in The Times

Well done. I remember my first fiendish took me 5 hours altogether, but it was worth it.

Ive been reading some of the posts and can i ask what is xyz-wing and xy-chain is??

Whoa! Hold on a minute! As you're a beginner, there are 2 reasons why I'm not going to try to explain it to you.

1. I'm not trying to be rude, I like encouraging beginners, but you won't understand it. To be able to understand those very advanced techniques, you need to have a lot of experience with Sudoku, and you need to already have a very good understanding of logic. Also, if you were going to be able to understand it at the moment, you would have understood it already from reading Jeff's posts.

2. There is no need to use those advanced techniques with The Times puzzles, not even with the hardest of the Fiendish (I promise), you don't even need X-Wing for those. Also, those techniques are very hard to spot if you're simply doing them with pencil and paper. Not only are they not necessary for Times puzzles, they are probably extremely rare even if you could spot them.

However, good luck with Sudoku in the future. You've started young, like me, (I'm 14) and you'll be able to enjoy Sudoku for many years to come.

G

can you explain to me?

[Pi]

What do you lot think of killer? to be honest, i prefer the original sudoku.

Killer sudoku is great, normal was getting too easy, i like a puzzle that takes a while, in a way i like sudoku less now that i have got better at, i liked the days when a fiendish took 20 mins, i suppose killer will go the same way.

[hazza]

I mainly prefer the classic sudoku becuase i have not yet fully mastered it. It sounds like you have so maybe you do prefer killer.

As it happens I completed my first fiendish last night so I still have a way to go to become a real master (It took me 50 mins).



HaZZa

[Pi]

quite good for a first one

[lunababy_moonchild]

I'd say it was extremely good for a first Feindish. I've never done one in less than 3 days

Luna

[hazza]

Thanks guys. I can now do em in 30-40 mins so by christmas i should be doin them quite quickly

HaZZa

[cat66636]

hi how old r all u guys and gals?

[lunababy_moonchild]

Over the age of consent!

Luna

[Pi]

15 but i can do a fiendish sudoku in 5 mins so that makes up for my imaturity

[giggles]

thanks for the forum. in my math class i found out how to do these puzzles and am now hooked. i want to be able to talk about the puzzles i'm working on and i want to say that i am happy i can talk to other people and kids my age about these puzzles. thanks.

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[giggles]

14 but i found out a kid that's younger really is good at these!