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Difficulty: Easy Sunday, May 28, 2006

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CHAT LOG for Sunday, May 28, 2006

12:01 am
Penguin

Hello Spazzy and all
12:02 am
elara6

Nice icon, Penguin :)
12:02 am
Penguin

Thanks Elara,
Yes, I finally broke down and coughed up a little money.
12:08 am
orb

Wheee
12:08 am
Penguin

Hi Orb
12:09 am
orb

a new icon
12:09 am
elara6

Hiya, Orb. Was that a "I'm done" whee or a "hi!" whee? :)
12:09 am
orb

That was my done...
12:09 am
elara6

Someday I'll be as fast as you. ;)
12:10 am
orb

What is really funny is that I'm actually faster here now than I am on paper
12:10 am
orb

at first I always printed out and worked on paper
12:10 am
elara6

Any clue why?
12:10 am
orb

couldn't stand the interface
12:11 am
elara6

Yeah, but why would that make you faster here now, wouldn't it just be equal?
12:11 am
orb

my handwriting is messy, and the UI will tell you if you make you make an obvious mistake
12:11 am
elara6

oh, true :)
12:11 am
orb

(use the same number in a box/line)
12:12 am
orb

I don't usually do that, but being 100% sure I haven't messed up lets me go faster
12:12 am
orb

what I do *REALLY* wish we had here was keyboard entry. I'd love to be able to use the arrows to move between boxes and key a number from the keyboard instead of the mouse
12:13 am
orb

click click click is too painful
12:13 am
Penguin

I have to agree with you, Orb. A keyboard entry would be much easier for me.
12:14 am
orb

the really nice thing about here is that the when you do click on a box, you are centered at exactly the same place, so you kind of have that keyboard like muscle memory even with the mouse
12:14 am
orb

so bonus points to the good doctor for giving us that :)
12:15 am
Penguin

Finished! Tonight's "Easy" really was.
12:15 am
orb

hooray
12:16 am
Penguin

I would still prefer a keyboard alternative. On the other hand, IronSudoku is the best interface I have found so far.
12:16 am
elara6

Yay, done here too :)
12:16 am
orb

It really does grow on you - many of the other online sudokos are painful to play
12:17 am
orb

so painful that I stick to the non-web ones
12:18 am
Penguin

Congrats Elara.

Well, it's time for me to find my shower and then my bed. Good night everyone.
12:18 am
orb

on the other hand, if someone knows of something good out there, I'd love to hear about it
12:18 am
elara6

Night :)
12:19 am
orb

see ya tommorrow
1:07 am
sprite

morning all
1:08 am
elara6

Morning, sprite :)
1:17 am
chebuctonian

hi all
1:22 am
raggedyandy3478

hey all, is this one easy like yesterday? lol
1:22 am
sprite

So far it is very easy. And I am almost done :)
1:22 am
raggedyandy3478

sweet
1:22 am
elara6

Hiya Raggedy & Chebuctonian :)
1:23 am
raggedyandy3478

how ya doing elara?
1:23 am
elara6

Good, just trying to catch up on some old ones I'd never done. :) You?
1:24 am
raggedyandy3478

tired, just got done watching the godfather part 1, but refuse to go to bed w/out finishing my sudoku
1:25 am
elara6

*grin* :)
1:25 am
sprite

Great feature, that archive that remains accessible :)
1:25 am
raggedyandy3478

haha, well im a college kid that is still wondering how i am going to pay for my next tank of gas, i dont need to add that to the mix
1:26 am
elara6

Where do you go to school? (and are you taking summer classes, or working this summer?)
1:26 am
sprite

lol
1:26 am
elara6

And yeah sprite, sure is :)
1:26 am
NJL

Hi all
1:27 am
elara6

Hiya, NJL :)
1:27 am
raggedyandy3478

I go to Georgia Tech, but taking summer classes(english 1 and 2) at a small college(that can transfer to GT), and I am working simultaneously, at least trying to
1:28 am
elara6

Cool. And nice to get some of those extra credits out of the way during the summer
1:29 am
sprite

Done, just one logic step after another the whole puzzle through. This one lives up to its rating. Off to babbleland :)
1:29 am
elara6

See ya, sprite
1:29 am
raggedyandy3478

definitely, plus i got a much nicer professor! than the one i had at GT(and dropped)
1:30 am
elara6

The right prof. makes all the diff.
1:30 am
raggedyandy3478

oh goodness yes!, i caught on to how to true that was about midway through my first semester of college
1:31 am
elara6

Just nice when you can actually manage a choice. :)
1:32 am
peternl

hi all
1:32 am
NJL

oops made a mistake on an easy one
1:33 am
elara6

Hiya, Peter :)
1:33 am
peternl

nice icon
1:34 am
elara6

Mine? It's the logo for Sweet Adelines (intl. women's singing organization. There are choruses in Aus. too :) )
1:35 am
peternl

They should be big in Adelaide ;-)
1:35 am
elara6

*grin* :)
1:38 am
NJL

gotta go, the kids want me to play with them
1:41 am
raggedyandy3478

done
1:42 am
raggedyandy3478

now i can finally rest in peace, gnight all!
1:42 am
elara6

I'm outta here too. Night, folks :)
2:41 am
helenkeller

go
2:49 am
helenkeller

done
2:54 am
GingerUK

hyu7uu2iqVAC sw
3:12 am
GingerUK

SORY, THAT WAS MY KIDS GRR
3:13 am
GingerUK

so was the caps lock :/
3:13 am
GingerUK

and they've restarted the game for me!!! Anyone want 3 under 8's?
4:23 am
Atalante

nope! they are allllll yours, ginger!
4:38 am
moedog

gooooood evening / morning / whatever, everyone!
4:38 am
MaW

hey
4:39 am
MaW

and I just finished!
4:43 am
moedog

woo hoo!
5:10 am
Linda

the problem with the easy ones is that they're over too quickly!
8:02 am
peternl

Done
8:02 am
peternl

But ... there is a non-unique rectangle :-(
8:04 am
peternl

Ahh, but one of them is solid, ok, never mind.
8:21 am
yul

good morning everybody
8:43 am
yul

done with no greening
9:53 am
EvilBernd

ello
10:06 am
EvilBernd

done
10:11 am
Grace O'Malley

Hello Everybody
10:13 am
Grace O'Malley

well better go bye all
12:03 pm
bigshow

ho hum
1:16 pm
Limer

GRACE
3:26 pm
scribble

hello
3:26 pm
twstedangel

hello
3:26 pm
twstedangel

hello
3:26 pm
twstedangel

damn double postings
3:27 pm
scribble

hehe sounds like me with F11...i HATE F11!!!
3:27 pm
twstedangel

haha
3:28 pm
scribble

this is simple
3:28 pm
twstedangel

yeah i did it earlier this morning... i'm on may 12th now
3:29 pm
SeedyV

Anyone have that auto-fill green numbers Java code handy?
3:29 pm
scribble

ummm....what is that?
3:30 pm
twstedangel

that was going to be my question too...
3:30 pm
Douglas

it's javascript!
3:30 pm
Douglas

no
3:30 pm
scribble

explain?
3:32 pm
SeedyV

Someone said it was in his/her profile, oh well I'll ask again later
3:32 pm
SeedyV

Oh wait, chat archives.....DUH
3:32 pm
Douglas

:-)
3:32 pm
scribble

mmmkay...well if you find it please tell us what it does and how to do it if you wouldn't mind... :)
3:33 pm
Douglas

scribble: it inserts all greens, then removes all the ones which are obviously false
3:33 pm
Douglas

though imo it's cheating :)
3:33 pm
twstedangel

ditto on that request :-P
3:34 pm
twstedangel

not really... it makes it more easy... i mean cheating isn't cheating unless you have the absolute correct answers sitting right there in front of you.
3:34 pm
SeedyV

I would ask you use this only as a last resort, but here you go
3:35 pm
SeedyV

Copy and paste the following into the Address Bar and hit Enter, and voila
3:35 pm
SeedyV

javascript:for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value == '') {ClearTinySquares(i,j);}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value != '') {var tmp_value = grid[i][j].value;for (k=1; k<=9; k++) {for (l=1; l<=9; l++) {if (grid[k][l].value == '') {if ((Math.ceil(i/3) == Math.ceil(k/3) && Math.ceil(j/3) == Math.ceil(l/3)) || i == k || j == l) {grid[k][l]['mini'][tmp_value] = -1;}}}}}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) { for (j=1; j<=9; j++) { if (grid[i][j].value == '') { for (k=1; k<=9; k++) { if (grid[i][j]['mini'][k] != -1) grid[i][j]['mini'][k] = 1; }}}}for (i=1; i<=9; i++) {for (j=1; j<=9; j++) {if (grid[i][j].value == '') {for (k=1; k<=9; k++) {if (grid[i][j]['mini'][k] != 1) grid[i][j]['mini'][k] = 0;}}}}PopulatePuzzle(grid);void(0);
3:35 pm
SeedyV

VVVVVV NOT MY WORK
3:36 pm
scribble

thank you seedy....i promise to only use it if i really need too. :)
3:36 pm
Douglas

the crux being that you never really need to, because the script does nothing you couldn't do yourself ;)
3:36 pm
SeedyV

Exactly
3:37 pm
SeedyV

My shift key is forever in debt to that code snippet
3:37 pm
scribble

exactly so theres really no point...
3:38 pm
SeedyV

Actually if you already made some advanced elimination via unique pairs and whatnot it hurts you by throwing those possibilities back in
3:38 pm
scribble

whats a crux?
3:39 pm
Douglas

Dictionary
crux (krÅ­ks, krÊŠks) pronunciation
n., pl. crux·es or cru·ces (krū'sēz).

1. The basic, central, or critical point or feature: the crux of the matter; the crux of an argument.
2. A puzzling or apparently insoluble problem.

[Probably short for Medieval Latin crux (interpretum), torment (of interpreters), from Latin crux, cross.]
3:39 pm
Douglas

http://www.answers.com/crux&r=67
3:40 pm
scribble

aha i learned a new word today! :) thx douglas!
3:41 pm
Douglas

np :)
4:17 pm
scribble

Done!!!
5:19 pm
Douglas

Wow
6:18 pm
Limer

Nailed that puppy!
6:18 pm
Limer

Rank me, baby!
7:45 pm
caffeinatedelf

btwrt, are you there??
7:45 pm
caffeinatedelf

BTWRT!!!
7:46 pm
caffeinatedelf

*sigh* *goes away disappointedly*
10:02 pm
angus_prune

lo all
10:02 pm
EasternBlue

hello...
10:02 pm
angus_prune

How do I get the icons
10:03 pm
EasternBlue

you have to go "pro"...I can't remember the cost - it's a one time fee...you also get 'checkpoints' (I think they're free the first 2 or 3 weeks...)
10:04 pm
angus_prune

I've done that
10:05 pm
EasternBlue

go under "my account" and then you can upload a picture (it has to be a gif or jpeg)
10:06 pm
angus_prune

K, thanks
10:10 pm
angus_prune

It didn't work
10:10 pm
angus_prune

I'll sort it out later today
10:11 pm
LeslieAnn

i find it easier to do it through the url, angus... just find a picture you like online, copy the link and paste it in
10:12 pm
LeslieAnn

sorry, copy the url... now you see why i like what's technologically easiest :)
10:12 pm
angus_prune

Ta Leslie