The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[Jules]

If you are able to, enlarge printed grid in Times to A4 size on a photocopier (setting of 200% is just perfect) - so much easier

secondly - I colour/outline the various shapes according to number of cells/squares in each shape.

[Shazbot]

I thought some printers allow you to adjust the size of the printed output, to x% of the original size. It might be worth checking out Print Setup as well.

[nd]

Yes, I always print them out in enlarged form; ditto when devising them. Another reason to photocopy them is because it beats trying to repeatedly erase your marks on newsprint or pulp paper stock!

[emm]

A long way back someone posted a list of candidate combinations for killers. I wonder if anyone can direct me to it - save me doing the big search.

[jf27]

Em, there's one at http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sumnumberplace/18927371/

[disraeli]

I've nearly finished the Times Killer book

Does anyone know if another one is coming out soon, or if there are any other sources of killer puzzles as good as the Times ones.

Thank you

[CathyW]

More Killer puzzles can be found at www.djape.net.

Some of them are much harder than The Times offerings!

[nd]

disraeli: try here for 3 more puzzles--

http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sumnumberplace/22326860/

& there are also a couple I put together on my own site:

ndorward.com/blog/

[emm]

jf27 - thanks in retrospect for the link to the candidates. I’m a late starter as far as killers go but they have got under my skin and that list is a big help.

nd - thanks for your killer tips on your blog, v helpful - I've added innies and outies to my vocabulary! I like your site, some cool stuff there, not those wicked numberless killers though - I never want to look at them again.

[nd]

The first of the numberless <>= ones is actually not that hard, but the 2nd one I'm still working on....! (just to clarify, those ones aren't my work, I just linked to them; it's only the two ones reproduced on my blog which are my handiwork).

[CathyW]

The first of the numberless <>= ones is actually not that hard, but the 2nd one I'm still working on....!

Yes that second puzzle was a challenge - there's several posts about these <>= puzzles in the Non-Pappocom section, thread started by some woman with an addiction to Killer Sudokus!