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[Ruud]

This is MOAG.

You should treat MOAG with some respect, for she is the Mother Of All Gattai



MOAG has 61 constituent Sudoku grids, 4041 cells and 36369 initial candidates.

The given numbers for each grid (in order of appearance):

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Here is MOAG's solution:

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Enjoy MOAG.
Ruud

[underquark]

Very,very good. Guess I can't use this one to time the boiling of an egg.

Any way of listing it as lines with separators so that it can be pasted into a spreadsheet? I'm currently tackling it in Paint Shop Pro but it's cumbersome. Also, do you have any plans for GMOAG (Grandmother...) with 9 grids across/down each edge (linked together by 8) and each centre cell forming part of a Sudoku?

[udosuk]

Any way of listing it as lines with separators so that it can be pasted into a spreadsheet? I'm currently tackling it in Paint Shop Pro but it's cumbersome. Also, do you have any plans for GMOAG (Grandmother...) with 9 grids across/down each edge (linked together by 8) and each centre cell forming part of a Sudoku?

UQ, I suppose if you're willing to take a few minutes to set up the spreadsheet you can copy-and-paste your way to create this grid.

A few tips:

1. The mid function is useful: e.g. mid(A81,5,1) retrieves the 5th character of the string in A81 onto the cell.

2. When copy-and-pasting remember to use the $ feature to "fix" the reference. For example, when I try to create a 9x9 grid from an 81-char string, I first put in the numbers 1..9 in the cells D1 to L1, the numbers 0..8 in the cells B3 to B11. Then, with the 81-char string in cell A14 (pre-formatted as a text cell), I can set up D3 as "=mid($A$14,$B3*9+D$1,1)", and then copy-and-paste this formula to all grids from D3 to L11. For this MOAG grid you need to work a bit more (after all, it has 6x6=36 of "main grids" plus 5x5=25 "interlocking grids" which you only need to take care of b24568).

3. After you get all the cells as function results, you can copy-and-paste the whole thing to another application such as Notepad and then copy-and-paste it from Notepad back to another sheet. Then you will get the whole grid as a large bunch of data.

4. You can easily change all the 0 cells to blank cells by using the "Replace All" command (Ctrl-H) and replace all appearance of 0s to nothing.

I'm sure you know most of these things. Just a matter of whether you want to spend your effort for this thing. It should take me less than 15 mins to set it up but hey, I don't have the subsequent 100 hrs to solve this monster.

BTW, there is another one of these available in here:

http://www.djape.net/sudoku/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1162

So your set-up spreadsheet can at least work for 2 puzzles.

Not sure if Ruud has posted more elsewhere though.

[JL]

Am currently aware of only this and (now) the one on DJApe. The one here is the same as the one on the SudoCue forum.

These puzzles get any bigger and I may have to look for a plotter to print it out!

[underquark]

One year on and I still haven't finished. Determined to do so without pencil marks or PC.

[udosuk]

underquark, I admire your perservance.

[enxio27]

One year on and I still haven't finished. Determined to do so without pencil marks or PC.

Without pencil marks?!?!?!? You're braver than I am!

When you finish that one, here's a whole listing of Ruud's other specialty puzzles:

http://www.rcbroughton.co.uk/sudoku/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13

[underquark]

Life being too short (and eye-strain setting in) I have relented and created an Excel spreadsheet that allows me to pencil-mark.