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Ruud

Hi Mike,

You can disable the fancy glass filter buttons by:
- Menu: Extra / Options
- Tab: Style
- Uncheck "Show filter button images"

I will try to find a better solution for these buttons in a next release.

Ruud

PS: Your English is OK

This Transformer pattern was very fruitful. Here are a few variants: If anyone could post the pictures :salut: A68V2 (rated 2.0-3.0?) 3x3:: k:5376:5376:5376:6147:2308:5637:4870:4870:4870:3593:5376:6147:6147:2308:5637:5637:4870:5137:3593:5376:5396:5397:5397:5397:6424:4870:5137:3593:3593:5396:5396:539...

I have no comment feature on the weekly Samurai, but testing this puzzle was a real pleasure, so I'd be interested to know your opinion on this Samurai.

Ruud

Yes, it has been removed. The code that was required to update the window was slowing down the solver too much.

Ruud

I am currently developing a new format, which takes some time to create. This and other activities leave no time to create any special puzzles at this moment.

To wet your appetite, here's a sneak preview:



Ruud

Thanks for the kind responses. both a66 and a67 took me about 1.5-2 hrs to do.A "deadly" killer in The Times normally takes me about 0.5 hrs so i'ld rate both of these as significantly harder I've always considered the Times Deadly a perfect benchmark. The early Assassins were made to matc...

The rating of puzzles has always been an awkward subject of discussion, whether it's between programmers on the Sudoku programmers forum or on one of the player's forums. Objectively, the rating should reflect the effort a player has to put into the puzzle to solve it. When player A with a particula...

Hi all, the rating is based on the requirement of the most difficult move needed to completely finish the puzzle. So far, most Clueless puzzles required these moves before the blue grid was solved, but this puzzle slipped through, because it did not need any advanced moves to solve the blue grid. To...

I will leave it to others to post a walkthru, but the Vortex Lite was very enjoyable. Good work, Mike!

Did anyone notice that the outies of all the corner nonets of the original Vortex add up to 11? Is there a secret message hidden in this puzzle?

Ruud

errrmmm... not so, I think. Can't remember what I was smoking when I wrote that...

I'll try to come up with a better explanation soon.

Thanks,
Ruud

I love the interface in the Daily Lite puzzles, and wish it was available for the tougher SudoCue puzzles. It's on my TODO list. About the difficulty: I'm constantly refining my rating system, but most of these puzzles have been rated and uploaded a long time ago. With the current rating system, th...

Thanks Brian,

The program seems to mess up the synchronization between the candidates in RC/RN/CN space when you do manual eliminations. I'll try to have a fix for this early next week.

cheers,
Ruud

The new Clover-X variant is very difficult to generate. When I set the symmetry requirement to "no symmetry" and ask the program to generate an "unfair" Clover-X, it will always create one, but it often takes several minutes. Because the generator is not a background process, the...

Interesting discussion developing here. Being a moderator on the Eureka forum, I never imagined that people could also discuss this subject in a civilized manner. In my solving guide, I've written a section about Sudoku Controversies . It badly needs an update. If you want to see bifurcation in acti...