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by **CathyW** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 1:32 pm

Best laid plans and all that ... :!:

How am I going to find time for everything else with 67 puzzles to do? Perhaps I'll let my husband do some of the easy ones

by **ChrisT** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 2:07 pm

What's this? Are there 67 puzzles coming with the Saturday Times tomorrow?

Unbelievable. I have a three hour train journey to do tomorrow! Nice timing.

Chris

by **PaulIQ164** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:08 pm

Yeah, there's a supplement of 67 various sudokus (Killer, Samurai, normal) tomorrow. I guess it's because, unusually, they don't have a free DVD to give away.

by **ChrisT** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:21 pm

Sweet.

by **PaulIQ164** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:27 pm

And there'll presumably still be the Samurai and the two regulars on the back page of Books, so that's 70.

by **possum** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:44 pm

by **CathyW** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 3:57 pm

possum wrote:<makes mental note to wait near letterbox and collar paper boy if supplement is missing>

Ditto - my Times 2 was missing today so had to collect it from the paper shop and the assistant had to search through three copies before he found one - seems like there was a batch without their T2s - but I had to have my sudoku fix before I could start work :!:

by **boaz** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:26 am

well, it arrived this morning.
I went direclt to the last page for the "most difficult killer so far".
target time was 50 mins, so I thought I was in for a challange.....
17 mins later ... done it

I hope there are some others worth doing..
:?:

by **Bigtone53** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:54 am

I went direclt to the last page for the "most difficult killer so far".
target time was 50 mins, so I thought I was in for a challange.....
17 mins later ... done it

Agreed, it seemed run-of -the mill but there are a goodly number of fiendishes to occupy the time.

by **Lardarse** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:05 am

I don't really want to mess up on the Samurai this time... But I have 3 chances to now

Which one is easiest?

by **domt** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:10 pm

I quite agree. Took about 20 mins. I didn't think it was any more difficult than their 'tricky' ones midweek personally. Classification's a bit wonky i think!

Dom

by **PaulIQ164** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:34 pm

Yeah, 11 minutes for that Killer for me. I guess it's hard to rate them because there are just so many tactics you can throw at it. There weren't any nice 45-rule boxes you could fill in or single-cell cages, but it was still quite quick for that.

Edit: just saw Killer puzzle 58, with the big 45-cage taking up all of box 5. Genius!

by **CathyW** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:36 pm

You beat me Paul - 15 minutes was my time on so-called "Deadly". It didn't even need many candidate entries. Think I'll have to stick to DJApe's website for more challenging Killers!

As for the puzzle with the 45 cage for box 5 - that was the last box to be filled in when I did it but it was straightforward enough.

Think I'll try a few of the ordinary Fiendish now.

by **PaulIQ164** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:46 pm

Notice that we're al mentioned in The Times today? Page 14:

Around the Globe in Numbers
...
3163 - Number of forum members at www.sudoku.com

by **PaulIQ164** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:25 pm

Also, am I just being dumb today, or is the first Samurai puzzle really difficult? I've not been able to solve it.

Edit: I tried a solver I found on it, and it hasn't been able to get any further than me (aside from a couple of numbers that I've now got, which don't help). Can anyone confirm that it's possible?

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