Hi All, I am another fan of Sudoku/Soduko and I concur that there is no guessing in Sudoku. I usually look for the places where they give you enough numbers in the grid so you can fill in a square and then move on. There is a US magazine that has been publishing Sudoku for 4 or 5 years and I did those puzzles over and over and over again so I've gotten pretty good at them. (I don't wake up fast in the morning so I read and do puzzles for an hour or so to get the brain working and I pull out puzzles at other times of day too.)
I was thrilled to find out they'd become so popular! I've got two books by Mark Huckvale, Sudoku Puzzle Editor of the Independent (UK). I also love the jigsaw ones and all the other variations. I did have to look at the hints they give at the beginning of the books because I was having trouble with some of them. The book suggests writing in the squares. After photocopying I can do that - the books are printed on paper that only takes two erasures before disintegrating. I get confused if I've got two many tiny number written so I usually mark in two or three squares where a number goes and then the pattern emerges later. Anyway, I looked at the URL Sue Babbs sent and said OH BOY!!! It's 11 - 9x9 puzzles connected. A variation I've done is two 9x9 squared sharing a 3x3 corner so it's just a bigger variation on that. I had to take up the challenge! So far it took me over an hour and a half to get one 3x3 filled in, another hour and a half to get the second 3x3 filled in and a total of 3 hours 45 minutes to get one 9x9 filled in <G>. The whole grid is covered with tiny numbers now and I'm being extra careful because I'll be screwed if I make a mistake now! The set-up with the common corner square does give extra clues as to what numbers will be in the rows. Now to go work on it a little more <VBG>. Oh, I also take a time out when I get stuck or look at a different area of the puzzle and I can tell I'm too tired or brain-drained when I can't figure out where any numbers go! Obsessively yours, Jane in Vermont, USA where the temperature has plunged! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
