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What file format is that? I was trying to find a website that does a better job explaining how to read those, and what the various numbers signify.

No file format involved!! The puzzles are straight from the Patterns Game results page, for game 0016: http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/post60198.html#p60198 - I simply take all the puzzles submitted in that game, insert '0016' in each line - that's enough info to show a puzzle's origin!

[Pupp]

What file format is that? I was trying to find a website that does a better job explaining how to read those, and what the various numbers signify.

No file format involved!! The puzzles are straight from the Patterns Game results page, for game 0016: http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/post60198.html#p60198 - I simply take all the puzzles submitted in that game, insert '0016' in each line - that's enough info to show a puzzle's origin!

I wasn't trying to figure out a puzzle's origin, I was trying to figure out a way to filter a collection of puzzles for Diamonds and Pearls for specific techniques, so I don't have to keep asking for puzzles for every new technique I'm studying.

I downloaded all the collections I could find on the internet, which wasn't really that many, but I do have mass quantities of puzzles.

[1to9only]

You should be able to rate the puzzles using SE and filter out the diamonds from the pearls.

To find out the techniques used by SE to solve a puzzle, you can use this:

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java.exe -cp SudokuExplainer.jar diuf.sudoku.test.Tester puzzles.txt puzzles.log


Example puzzle.log:

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Analyzing Sudoku #1
59 Hidden Single
1 Naked Single
1 Direct Hidden Triplet
1 Pointing
2 Naked Pair
1 X-Wing
9 Hidden Pair
4 Naked Triplet
7 Swordfish
4 Hidden Triplet
2 XY-Wing
1 Aligned Pair Exclusion
1 Bidirectional X-Cycle
2 Forcing X-Chain
2 Bidirectional Y-Cycle
Hardest technique: Bidirectional Y-Cycle
Difficulty: 6.9

Analyzing Sudoku #2
59 Hidden Single
1 Direct Hidden Pair
1 Direct Hidden Triplet
2 Naked Pair
1 X-Wing
8 Hidden Pair
2 Naked Triplet
7 Swordfish
5 Hidden Triplet
2 XY-Wing
1 Forcing X-Chain
1 Bidirectional Cycle
Hardest technique: Bidirectional Cycle
Difficulty: 7.0

Finished.


Tester is in SudokuExplainer 1.2.1.3 (as used in the Patterns Game) - For some reason, it's been removed in SukakuExapliner.

[mith]

You can still get that, it's just in the GUI.