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June 30 "very hard" medium at best

 
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nataraj



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:34 am    Post subject: June 30 "very hard" medium at best Reply with quote

Don't know what happened.

The puzzle practically solved itself. So many freebies at the start, rarely a house with less than 5 or 6 solved cells later.

Just as fast as my fingers could write ... Not even a second coffee!

I could not believe it.
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andras



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree - I had exactly the same result, except that in my case it was the second cup of tea that I didn't get! Very Happy

John
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storm_norm



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yep, definitely a mistake in the difficulty categorization for this one.
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George Woods



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:34 am    Post subject: wasted remote pair Reply with quote

I had to do it twice to persuade myself that the first time wasn't a fluke. Second time I didn't need the remote pair that I noted with glee first time, but later as the solution emerged, it seemed as if that remote pair was not a help!
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nataraj



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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yep, definitely a mistake in the difficulty categorization for this one


... so I went back to check this weekend's medium and hard on the off-chance that there might be a true very hard hidden in them. No such luck.

I agree that something must be seriously wrong with the classification, since the "hard" did not require anything more than naked tuples. So what makes it "hard", then?

Today's puzzle at least required a few box/line interactions. In that respect it was indeed more difficult than the latest "hard" ... Rolling Eyes
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cgordon



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll have to do this again because I needed a Type 4 UR on <16> to remove the <6> from C1 Box 4. Easy after that.
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cgordon



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes: You guys are right ! I did it again and this time I spotted the naked pair of <6> in R4 Box5. Didn't need no clever stuff.
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storm_norm



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

conspiracy theorists might assume this is a omen to another server crash??
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nataraj



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

storm_norm wrote:
conspiracy theorists might assume this is a omen to another server crash??


Nah, don't think so. If servers crashed just because of wrong information stored on them, the internet would look like it did in the 1930s.

More likely, Sam taking all puzzles offline until the error is found.

Please don't, Sam!
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