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[lunababy_moonchild]

It is with much delight I announce that today I solved my very first Very Hard Pappocom Sudoku (created by the software).

I've been doing Pappocom Sudoku on and off since March 2005 (I won't bore you further with how I remember that!) and I promised myself that I would progress - or not! - with techniques that I figured out by myself.

I started at Fiendish level under the illusion that because I had been doing The Daily Mail's Codenumber (as it was then called) since November 2004 that I must be at Pappocom Fiendish level. It never occurred to me that since I was taking 3 days to complete one puzzle that I might want to drop down a level, I just kept on with it. I certainly was not prepared to learn new techniques because I wanted to solve by myself. As a result it's taken me this long to progress to Very Hard level and I have only solved the one puzzle - tomorrow's may well stop me in my tracks altogether, all part of the fun for me - but, I'm chuffed to bits.

I just felt that I had to share that with you.

Luna

*I'm back to solving with paper and pencil, disappointing only in that a wee tune is not played when I finally solve the puzzle.*

[Bigtone53]

It is with much delight I announce that today I solved my very first Very Hard Pappocom Sudoku (created by the software).

Hi Luna, I say congratulations even if the others are all tied up at present.

[lunababy_moonchild]

Thanks Bigtone

Luna

[MCC]

Looks like you've got your wings Luna

Wee tune for Luna.


MCC

[Pat]

I promised myself that I would progress - or not! - with techniques that I figured out by myself.

Looks like you've got your wings Luna

we may call it wings -- especially, X-wings -- but if she's figured out the methods by herself then she'd be naming them herself too, not using any "standard" terminology

~ Pat

[MCC]

_ _ _ _ _ _ A person who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet (1595) act 2, sc. 2, 1. 43

MCC

[Bigtone53]

...and of course

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

[Pat]

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds

yes, it must be my foolish search for consistency which causes me to mis-understand the definitions used by simes

~ Pat

[lunababy_moonchild]

Looks like you've got your wings Luna

Wee tune for Luna.


MCC

Thanks very much MCC.

I'm not very good with techniques - which is why I don't use them! - but I'm pretty sure that the only one that's necessary for the Pappocom Very Hard is x wings so I may have used that

in the event that :

a) I remembered that this was a technique and

b) I remembered how to use it

but that would be all. I certainly didn't invent any new ones!

Luna

[Hud]

Before I discovered this site, I used to call x-wings magic squares.

[udosuk]

_ _ _ _ _ _ A person who insists on strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view

This link pops up from a google search. I found it a pretty precise (and fair) description of my own character.