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by **xxl** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:39 pm

Hi there,

I'm new to all this and have been trying to finish a puzzle and can't find the solution anywhere!!

I looked on this website but it asked me for the first 5 numbers. Which first 5 numbers?!

Please help! lol

by **MCC** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:02 pm

The first five numbers are the first five clue numbers in the original grid.

by **xxl** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:36 pm

going from left to right? or top to bottom?

Thanks

by **PaulIQ164** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:15 pm

As you would read normally - left to right then top to bottom. There's a pretty full explanation of it on the site if I remember correctly.

by **Doyle** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:16 pm

Left to right starting with the top row, continuing if necessary with succeeding rows, left to right, until 5 numbers are entered. Note that there are multiple valid puzzles that could theoretically match a single such entry, but the puzzles published by Pappocom are most likely chosen so that each such entry is unique, and stored in a database.

(And how many unique such puzzles would that be?)

by **PaulIQ164** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:27 pm

Doyle wrote:(And how many unique such puzzles would that be?)

Interesting. An upper limit is obviously 9^5 (about sixty thousand), but generally the five clues in question are likely to share a lot of units with each other, so it'd in reality be much less. How much less, I have no clue.

by **xxl** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:54 pm

thanks for your help everyone

actually managed to finish it after re-starting times!!!

Took me 4 hours but got there in the end.

Thanks for the tips. I'll know for next time!

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