Chatterbox go!

lol

aaaaand finished >.>

Hi all

...i wish

done. easier than the last couple.

done.. much easeir than the easy two days ago

definitely easier than yesterday!

Morning all :)

Done Agree with Boric easier than last few days

done too. finally a medium that's really a medium :)

this one was very straight forward... at least for me...

Wish yesterday's had been that simple

Greetz all

i have a question for the Europeans (et al)....

do you observe Day-light Savings time other places than the US?

In the UK the clocks went forward an hour last night. In October the will go back an hour.

morning folks :D ...MF - yes, we do... in the UK we have Greenwich Mean Time in the winter, and British Summer Time from March to October, one hour ahead

awesome... thanks for the info :)

(need it for a web-app i'm working on)

Morning Sherb

hi FMitch :D ...I don't feel like it's 8am yet...

Ugh, know what you mean, trying to do sudoku at "7am" afternot going to bed til 1am is not working, think I need more tea

Morning, me neither Sherb

that's a weird coincidence that I asked about that today...
Daylight savings was like a month ago over here :/

hi Ginger... good to see you again :D

The USA usually do it a week after us don't they (for Summer)?

and the same time for Winter

I hate that daylight saving bs. Really. It is cruel. We have to get up when we are not yet awake, must eat when we aren't yet hungry and must go to bed before we are sleepy. Still, that's me done for today.

Helloooo sprite good to see you, have you babbled yet?

woah... i guess i was wrong.. just googled it, it's on Apr 2nd for us

I prefer it when the clocks go back in October...an extra hour at the weekend... today, by contrast, I feel cheated...

then we end at the same time (Oct 29) as the EU

I am right with you, sherb :)

FMitch, no, not yet, have to save that for later. Now it is aikido for the kids, then a walk in the forest and then pancakes :)

gg laterz all!

Think I will go and do something less taxing too whilst I wake up TTFN

later FM... and MF... :D

motive: how late do you stay up usually?

not too bad for a Medium tonight, eh?

hmmm, that wasn't too bad... time for Babble... :D

jumping into this for the first time...

i can't see the 2's when i mark them as green.. i use firefox.. any ideas ?

OTHER than that, the diagram was very easy

hi all

hello abstract

Done. Sure wish there was more than one puzzle a day.

I'm new here .. is it a posibility to see the rating of the other people ? or to see the profils of the other people ?

Ratings will start in April :)

why ? this a rule ?

this is a rule ... :)

why hello!

hello wac.

how's it goin Onpaki?

slow... slow... but getting there.

how abt u, wac?

oh you know. . .

just having a dandy old time

i'm done!

awesome!

done also. going to be . night all

goodnight

night all

goodnight to you too

it's afternoon for me. :)

but u all hv a good sleep.

afternoon?!

where you at?

singapore

wow!

yeah, it's about 2 here

how about u? u mean 2am?

yep

utah usa!

texas?

texas?. . .what about it?

ok, i don't know my geography. never mind. :p

ha ha. . .that's alright

texas is central time

RIGHT YOU ARE

oops. . .stupid caps lock

don't mess with Texas

hi all

how medium is this medium?

seems hard to me, but this is my first sudoku ;)

and done, whew :)

only took 1.5 hours

well done

they get easier with practice as you learn the techniques

Nikola says this one is easy though - she did it in 15 minutes

yeah, my mom is the one into these things, gets me to print them out

she always thinks the ones from here are hard; then I look at the log and see someone always gets it in under 20 min, heh

Most people say the ones here are harder than other sites

brb

5 am, sleep time; I'm out

night

just finished! defintely easier than the last couple

Woo, done

that was easy

that was quite simple

done

+2 points

This was a refreshing change from the past two days

i started this before i had my first cup of coffee, so hopefully NOW i can work this one the right way

ahh sudoku... i love you and i hate you

i've been stuck for hours

Weeeeee, all done :)

done

good morning

good morning all

morning, kids

Good morning

hey david mitchell, did you get it yesterday?

No :(

i didn't know where you went

Went to dinner with a friend and we lingered

oh, well that is nice then. :)

I didn't go back to the puzzle

it's ok, there is more to life than sudoku *ducks*

:)

yeah, babble :)

Haha!

:) bunny

is it considered solved if one of my squares has a 0?

um, no

no "wilds" then... hmmm

so many silly rules!

poor jdog

is there any way to see how many points I've accumulated?

there will be april 1

Are the accumulating now, or start on the first?

they are accumulating now

ok, well that was fun

showoff! :-)

:P

done?

yes.

I agree jdog!

That was fast

it's a medium

how long do you want it to take me?

so only 3 minutes to solve. pesky "hard" takes 5!

hey, that was 15 mins, that went by fast.

just teasin

*hurshy sighs and lifts eyes to the heavens*

I've been here near an hour, now I just feel pitiful.

bunny, i have a question.

sure?????

did you spend a week doing virtually nothing but play sudoku, so that you did like a thousand of them?

I tried that version where if you put the wrong number in a square, it went red. It was alot easier than this!!

but my question?

ummm, no, I don't think so....

well then, you shouldn't feel pitiful.

is that what you did then?

yes, and isn't THAT what is truly pitiful.

no, that's nirvana

lol

lol, not really, your improving your mind!

(careful what you ask on a sudoku board!)

well, off to babble now

eh, hurshy, quit trying to make us feel sorry for you that you have so much sudoku knowledge :-D

be there shortly, I hope!

Yay, I got it

:) yay david

WTG!!

Easier than most. Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings. Off to babble now...

woo hoo, no guessing

on tho babble as well

this was easier than the "easy" one on wed or thur last week

imo

I thought I had made a mistake when I got down to the last four blanks, but I had missed a possibility

w00t! :-D

Get it?

yep :-)

Good going :)

hi : )

yay! all done

Yoink - Last

wow naked pairs is the name of today's game

please, there are children listening....

hay done! i <3 checkpoints!!!

what's a naked pair?

two cells with the same two numbers in. also called twins

thabks

i. e. thanks

y/w : )

Are the 7-4's an example of a naked pair?

there's a world of twins in today's grid (I prefer 'twins') ; )

jjc its when you've got only two possiblilities for a number (in a row, column or box)

yeah naked twins is wierd huh babble

lol !! *mind boggling* :s

cheers: TO NAKED TWINS

twins are when there are two cells with the same two numbers in a region (row / column / box)

Hello!!

Hello!!

(( EB !! )) :D

hi =^..^=

so, is this devilsh?? I'm a wee bit tired after going to the Billy Joel concert last night...

babbler!

eb!

((Babs!!)) ((Nut!!))

it's a world of twins and triplets, EB, : (

nut! :D

you missed it, we had a troll.

hmmm...twins run in my family...I wonder if that will help me?? 8 )

well lookee where the party's at

really??

troll - here? or in babble?

yeah, she really liked me - in babble

hi i'm jera's daughter from babble

a troll liked you, nut?

((hi dorg!!))

hey dorg- daughter of jera

hi dorg! say hi to Jera from me! :D

babs - sarcasm my dear

probably because i told her she was at the wrong site

she's right here

lol!! I wasn't being sarcy, but now that I re-read it, lol!! :' ) oh dear..... :D

poor nut...

less vile than some were i must say

hi Jera (reading over dorg's shoulder)

hi Jera *waves* :D

i'm ten ,btw

*jera waves back*

dorg - we know... :) your mom mentions you in our babble chats : )

yes - we know 'everything' - snicker

nut - be nice!!

lol

oh, sorry, i meant all the nice things dorg.

nut - much better dear!! : )

yes, lessons from the troll

what was the troll called?

ellaenchanted - i think she propositioned me

I say !! :o !!

i was so distraught, i had to eat a fudge sundae

hopefully that helped!! hmmm...fudge sundae.... : )

LOL!! I just found the beginning, when she arrived. How funny! XD. *leans over and puts another fudge sundae on Nut's desk* there you go, luvvie, another trauma treat : )

mmm. obliteration food...

who's the cow everyone is referring to? another troll?

no, my cows

real cows?

or i should say my inlaws cows

yes, that's what we have on farms babsy, cows, chickens, miniature horses.

cows like moo and milk?

cows like moo and flet mignon

ohhhh! a farm!! lol! (in the UK, 'cow' can sometimes be used perjoratively). I was thinking you guys had another troll and called her a cow

I've been off the scene a tad too long, huh?

no- but i think i did confuse you a way back when i said my neighbors were cows.

lol !! *utterly confused and amused* :D

my people neighbors are actually quite nice.

how very bovine of you.

well that's something I understand, and happy to hear : )

(read back in the babble log....) *hands nut a double fudge sundae with extra whipped cream & cherries on top*...poor thing!!

hey, theres a word posting troll in there now!

thanks eb

*races back to babble to see*

hola. buenas dias

my goodness! Hi guerro...

hey guerro

buenas dias, guerro

donde esta Hurshy ?

hello everybody! (in the voice of dr. ned from the simpsons)

Babble, I think

she's in babble

hiya btw!!

ahh yo mira. que bien. ya me voy a la sudoku horita

hiya Blue

*whispers to Babs* if you speak spanish, please respond to guerro...I am of limited languages!! LOL!!

lol yo habla Engles

yes

see, I am biligual

*whispers back to EB* I can understand it a weeny bit, but not sure I can respond ; )

I know some Korean also

I'm guessing that you said something about the sudoku hour...and good...

yikes - I know I couldn't even guess anything for Korean!! LOL!!

aloha allo hola

haha I said I see. I am going to do the sudoku now

babs went back to babble - i speak a little french

soo....I was pretty much WAAAAAY off!! : )

hiya harp!!

hi harp! : ) (I'm flipping between Babble and Sudoku) : )

nut - very little french for me...I took latin in h.s. to help with the SAT's...fat lot of good it does me know as no one speaks latin!!

sorry i havent chatted in a wile i was working on the puzzle then i had to get my glasses wech i forgret to put on thes moning. man thes puzzel is hard...for a ten yere old.

I know sign language tho...

dorg - it's hard for people over 10 too!! ((hug))

lol dorg

I'm two-thirds of the way done, but my remaining cells have the same few numbers in and I'm bored already! lol! :s

Babs - you are too funny!

(falls over from shok) eb i am lerning latin!

I did a year of latin at school. It helps with latin-based languages, and it helped with science. : )

dorg - it's been many years, dear...I doubt i'd be any help to you!! it does help you figure out the root of many words!!

sum - es - est...sumus - estis - sunt...

amor, amas, amat.... (is that right?)

i'm hungry

(I think it's amo)

you'll want something to eat then, guerro

guerro - me too...my hubby is talking about pancakes...I may have to join in making our brunch!!

how bout some chocolate cheese cake???

yes shall I go get something or create a dish here ?

ooo...that sounds good!!

another troll in babble. must be a troll convention tonight!

yeah it's what i've been craving for the last few weeks, but alas i don't have any idea how to make one!

cook for me, guerro! :D purrrty pleeez

*runs back to babble*

ditto to babbler's idea!

have you noticed that these puzzles hardly ever have any twos to begin?

miller...I HAVE noticed that...hmmmm...very strange!! : )

yay! another two points to miller da killer!

who here likes manga books or used to?

dorg - I'm not sure I've ever seen a manga book...!!

dorg - I'm not sure I've ever seen a manga book...!!

dorg - I'm not sure I've ever seen a manga book...!!

wow, three times

ooops...my 'enter' didn't appear to be working for a moment!

its thos books with more pecers then words oh and they come from japan.

ok, who's finished who's lurking? I need a hand.. ; )

13 squares to go. this is where it usually starts to get ugly for me.....

eight to go....

you and me both babbler.

dorg...my nieces & nephews might like them...

aaaaaahhhh.... back to my last check point.

37 to go....

what i thouth you had 8 to go harpjane wats with 37?

dorg, it turns out that one of my "educated guesses" was wrong, so I reverted back to a point where I know everything was correct. 34 to go....

27 blanks+10hours+10 yere old=slit chanch

16 blanks isn't much better

why is it so quite?

becasse I still have 25 to go...

onther "educated guess" gone wrong?

Well I have now definitely eliminated that particular educated guess. All possible strains lead to dead ends. So that's good news, more or less.

I'm at the end of an educated guess.... considering another educated guess, but debating whether to save this educated guess as a checkpoint. I'm in a muddle! lol!

is the babble troll gone? I still have 50 to go over there.

yay! i'm done

dose a retrat to a poor checkpoint relly help?

harp - the trolls are having a convention over there. : /

ten ten ten wow

why do people EVER respond to the trolls? I don't get it.

wats a troll?

I mean, if someone I don't know comes up to me in a park and says something rude, I don't engage her in a conversation. I walk away.

a 'troll' is an internet term for someone who is a nuisance. : )

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

y/w dorg : )

had enough of babble now im struggling on here too !!!!

harpjane, because it's nice to be able to be rude to someone without the guilt

me too, M3

how long should this one take???

If someone says anything less than 24 hours, I will glare at them

Dang I messed up, I was almost finished

rofl.

Zaki - I know the feeling. : /

oh well at least i have my online dating to keep me amused lol

I wonder if social scientists have done studies on this sort of thing? (the troll thing) I know that anonynimity is a key part of mob mentality for example....

M3, how long SHOULD it take? An hour. How long have I been at it? Four hours.

there is no anonynimity you can be traced. . i have just stared over !!!

on and off..... most of today.... I keep finding distractions..

what do you do when you have a collum wheth no 5sand all the rows next to it have 5s and your checkpoint has onley 12 blanks filld?

I just did it in 20 minutes, if you use the green numbers it really helps

thats not kind babbler i call my distractions children lol

good luck!

the trolls are probably equally as obnoxious in real life, harp. : /

what green numbers

ok im trying a new system now !!!!! dont i say that everyday? now this chatting is a distraction !!

push shift when you click on numbers instead of just clicking, cause than you can put in the possibles

I live in a small town. You can't be too rude to the idiot in front of you at the grocery store, even when they forget their change or drop the eggs, etc. Because they might be serving you communion next Sunday.

Zaki, save your grid, then look at How To Play, at the top of hte page. It tells you how to put subscript numbers in cells, as if you pencilled them in

alt gives you red

but that makes me feel like they are wrong...

good luck!!:)

man I just started over

I've been using red numbers as my 'educated guesses' after my earlier educated guess... :s

I hada good system and it just failed

I just got distracted again and forgot where I was at : /

no more chatting good luck everyone

i have 5 more left and a mager problome.shoud i try the fudge sundae?

yes! : )

hmmm.... I think I'm close to finishing..... !

yup! anyone need anything before I put my last number in and the whole grid disappears?

babbler no thanks but congrats

not me

well mabey a sundae?

lol!! would that be hot fudge chocolate sundae with nuts and sprinkles? on its way!! :D

yayy! I got my 2 points! :D Thanks for the chat, good luck and see you all tomorrow : D

well i had a sundae,my dad tride to help me (my dad the computer wize) and my check point when i new evrey thing was righ is gone!(snifel snifel) shoud i start over?

yes, start over. It's amazing how much you'll remember. : )

wow i didn't know you were still on! thanks! (sundae to)

just came back to log out. watching tv at the minute. deffo logging out now. : ) good luck!! : )

is eney one else on still?

hello

hey

whew i was wored i was the onley one!

My goodness i have two spaces left and somewhere I have messed up

zakiwi...ugh!!

are you a kiwi??

kiwi who?

well i have 3 left 9 hours and a mess up.

as in new zealander??

poor dorg...!! my connection has been spotty at best - I keep having to reenter even tho' i saved a checkpoint...

ok i havea clen bord half a sundae and 9 hours...not looking good.

hang in there dorg...!!

i chaned into my pjs got a nother sundae and a good leuk charm!

dorg - that's the spirit!!

my charm ish't working. :[

8th sundae. :[

*extra sprinkles & whipped cream for the sundae*

be back in a few minutes!

11 sundaes 11 blanks a shorted out charm. ,:[

i wish this was one of the gams you can cgang the lelle of difcu liy

ok i am back

see yah im loging out (it stared over im pooped)=^..^=

loging ?

big on sundaes today?

sundaes ?

YEAH!!! I finished one :-) (doing the happy dance here!)

Is it just me or was today's easier then yesterday's?

its just you ;)

done...guess it was more than a few mins. that I was gone!

way to go GingerUK

Good job, EasternBlue

is so close XP

Hurshy says you don't have to guess..... then I am stuck, stuck, stuck......

mama!

Hi nut!!!!!! I used Hurshy's "possibles" method yesterday and it worked.... today I am stuck

the problem mama, is figuring out which of the logic statements for the puzzle is true now......

just have to find ways to eliminate mama

awe, medium difficulty

I have been trying to eliminate for a long time..... there is no square that is a "for sure" now. everything has more than one choice

what logic statements, brandyjack?

you have to use boxes to eliminate rows then.

none of the 9 boxes have sure choices in them though. I have several squares that have the same 2 choices in them, but I can't figure which goes where

if this and this and this but not this, then it must be this. is a computer logic statment even though you may not think of it that way. the problem is the indeterminate states.

mama, say you have two twos in a box in the same row. they are the only possible twos in that box. then nothing else in that row can be a two.

yes, I've gotten that far

Rank me baby.

Nailed that puppy!

anybody else use a dry erase marker on their screen? typing all those little greenies in makes me crazy!!!!

you can try the red

This site should allow for user ranking of difficulty... that way it's a consensus rather than something arbitrary

finally one that I completed without making a leap of faith. either my logic skills are back or this one was easier than they have been lately.

yeah, same here

first one in several days that didn't require a guess

I did have to leave for a while & come back to it before I actually saw it, though.

sorry mama

Why sorry, nut?

wasn't helpful earlier

yes you were. It's just my brain...

can't help with that!

log in crashing safari

I can't eliminate anything and it's driving me batty

Well that's frustratimng. I accidentally hit a key an dlost my pathetic work. Oh well, off to the west wing!

finished mama - cya later

wahey

i 'm drunk what a drag :) glad to finish from the first try

moring。。。

woo! found a 7

mE TTO - THANKS

Me too - Thanks

hi there!

howdy

gettin' close... but no cigar

need some 8s

Do I have to guess at a few of these?

yay done

And I hit a wall...

finally done!!!

ok, i need some help here

i have filled in as much of the actual puzzle as i can, filled in all red numbers. Checked rows, columns and 3x3's for any number that a certain spot has to be, and can not find anything!

You sunk my battleship!

so what else can i do to figure out another number?

3478'do you have all the 4s?

tell me a how many over and how many down and I'll give you a number

the top row goes 674983125 if that helps

yes i have all the 4s

do you have all but 2 5s/

no, i have all the 5's

the second row is 293156487

well good luck gtg

please dont post answers in the chatlog -- it ruins it for those of us who want to figure it out on our own

sorry, I was just trying to help out

I won't do it again

goodnight everyone

ya, sorry, i wasnt asking for the answers, i just wanted to know if there was a way of figuring it out, that i was not aware of

you have all the answers, if you didn't make a mistake

say what?

i have all the 4's and 5's, but thats it

that we have establish

i will just walk away for a little bit, and come back to it, see how it goes, good luck to all

Is it just me or are the bottom 3 boxes real pills on this puzzle?

i got the bottom left just fine...i hope

nope, just messed up

No new one?

Ah, I see, in an hour.

Stupid daylight saving time.

that puzzle wasn't too bad

the three's were a challenge for me

eek - 21 minutes to do this!

no more talking. stupid me for forgetting.

Isn't it almost time?

got it.

13 minutes of intense focus, w00t