The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[roger888]

Many thanks.

I stopped watching the programmers forum when most of the action moved over here.

But as you can see, I'm a bit behind the game!

[apatt]

Hi Angus,

Many thanks for this brilliant sudoku freeware.

Just one question, I don't understand what "possibles locked in a row" means. Question I tried studying the yellow coloured cells but can't really decipher the meaning of this remark.

Kindly elaborate, thanks.

[angusj]

Many thanks for this brilliant sudoku freeware.

Thanks .

I don't understand what "possibles locked in a row" means.

Try this : http://angusj.com/sudoku/hints.php#locked_candidates_1

[apatt]

Completely understood now, many thanks

[normxxx]

Thanks for a perfectly lovely program!

Maybe I am dense, but how do you access the SS menu which has been mentioned? It doesn't seem to be in any of the dropdown menus.

P.S. I am very new to sudoku.

[angusj]

Maybe I am dense, but how do you access the SS menu which has been mentioned? It doesn't seem to be in any of the dropdown menus.

I'm not sure which menu you're referring to?
There's the main menu (File, Edit, View & Help) and a context sensitive popup menu which appears when you right-click on a cell.

[normxxx]

There's the main menu (File, Edit, View & Help) and a context sensitive popup menu which appears when you right-click on a cell.

I am dense! I guess I was talking about the context menu- I thought there was a more elaborate menu, judging by the way people were talking about it.

Thanks. Maybe when I get to the more advanced puzzles I'll ask about the "pencilmarks" that has been referred to?

[Yul]

(First, sorry for my bad english)

I'm using your fantastic software por two days and (maybe for my inexperience) I think that could be useful (because in the hard puzzles the forest of candidates don't let you see the trees easily) that the pairs filter makes that for cells with "up to 2" candidates. For the same reason, you can add a new filter "up to 3" candidates, helpful to find triplets.

Greetings from Spain.

[apatt]

Hi Angus,

For the puzzles keyed in manually, after a few moves, sometime the program suddenly shows the puzzle’s rating (easy, hard etc) on the bottom right hand corner of the screen, sometime it doesn’t. How do I get the program to show the puzzle rating?
Thank you again for this great software.

[angusj]

For the puzzles keyed in manually, after a few moves, sometime the program suddenly shows the puzzle’s rating (easy, hard etc) on the bottom right hand corner of the screen, sometime it doesn’t.

Well, it's a bug if it does suddenly show a rating since a rating should only be given to puzzles made by SS.

[apatt]

Hi again Angus,

Sorry to keep pestering you. Got another question. Some puzzles (not SS generated) can only be solved so far in SS and then I get SS's indication "no hint possible".

Does this mean the puzzle is faulty? (it seems some Daily Telegraph ones are like that).

Here is an example.

Given:
...|96.|15.
.86|...|...
...|2..|7..
-----------
2.5|.16|83.
...|.9.|...
.47|35.|9.6
-----------
..2|..1|...
...|...|38.
.54|.37|...

got as far as:
723|964|158
586|173|...
419|285|763
-----------
295|416|837
368|792|...
147|358|926
-----------
.32|.41|.7.
671|529|384
.54|.37|...

Then "no hint possible".

Thanks again.

[angusj]

Sorry to keep pestering you.

I won't promise to keep answering.

Some puzzles can only be solved so far in SS and then I get SS's indication "no hint possible". Does this mean the puzzle is faulty?

No. Faulty puzzles are those with either no solution or multiple solutions (and SS will warn you about those before you start solving). If you search the sudoku forums you'll find some clever but reasonably obscure solving methods which SS does not implement. There are even some puzzles which require trial and error (ie make a guess) to solve.

[danielwww]

Hi Angus,
Great program, the best Sudoku program I have tried! Fast, excellent interface, small size and off course free

Some things to make it even better:
1/ When I use the key-pad to enter the numbers, It’s a bit confusing when the candidate numbers in the program are presented in:

123
456
789

and the numbers on the numeric keypad are arranged in

789
456
123

Would be great if the program also could present the numbers in the same format as the numeric keypad.


2/ A high score list would bee cool to have:
One per puzzle difficulty and order by:
first number of hints,
then number of errors and
last the time.