Comments on: Picture sudoku http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/21/picture-sudoku/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:42:59 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Osner http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/21/picture-sudoku/comment-page-1/#comment-114303 Jeremy Osner Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:19:07 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=3959#comment-114303 I am pretty sure that "being solvable by algorithm" is a requirement for a valid Sudoku puzzle. I am pretty sure that “being solvable by algorithm” is a requirement for a valid Sudoku puzzle.

]]> By: ogmb http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/21/picture-sudoku/comment-page-1/#comment-114015 ogmb Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:15:52 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=3959#comment-114015 I'm wondering -- Are computer algorithms good at solving those puzzles? I’m wondering—Are computer algorithms good at solving those puzzles?

]]> By: Becky http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/21/picture-sudoku/comment-page-1/#comment-113555 Becky Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:10:21 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=3959#comment-113555 Heheh, I apologise if it's <em>too</em> much of a time sink. ;-) Becky (the inventor of Flickr Sudoku) Heheh, I apologise if it’s too much of a time sink. ;-)

Becky (the inventor of Flickr Sudoku)

]]> By: John Quiggin http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/21/picture-sudoku/comment-page-1/#comment-113440 John Quiggin Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:04:02 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=3959#comment-113440 Definitely more of a time sink than numbers! Not sure whether to say thanks or not - do bloggers need time sinks? Definitely more of a time sink than numbers! Not sure whether to say thanks or not – do bloggers need time sinks?

]]> By: Steve Reuland http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/21/picture-sudoku/comment-page-1/#comment-113319 Steve Reuland Sat, 22 Oct 2005 03:25:48 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=3959#comment-113319 Thanks for the new addiction. I really needed that. Really. Thanks for the new addiction. I really needed that. Really.

]]> By: Jeremy Osner http://crookedtimber.org/2005/10/21/picture-sudoku/comment-page-1/#comment-113246 Jeremy Osner Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:03:27 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=3959#comment-113246 I haven't quite figured out yet, whether Sudoku is fun. I worked my way through about a book's worth of them a few weeks ago and I kind of get the point, but it seems like mostly I was just able to solve them or not able to -- there wasn't any middle ground where there was a real challenge. Once in a while I would hit on a new solving rule which was kind of fun when it happened -- but I can't really imagine that continuing to happen with any regularity over a long period of working the puzzles. I was looking for there to be a kind of chess-like (or "paint by numbers"-like) thing on the harder puzzles, where I would make a putative entry mentally and then work ahead to try and find a contradiction; but could not seem to get it to work out. I haven’t quite figured out yet, whether Sudoku is fun. I worked my way through about a book’s worth of them a few weeks ago and I kind of get the point, but it seems like mostly I was just able to solve them or not able to—there wasn’t any middle ground where there was a real challenge. Once in a while I would hit on a new solving rule which was kind of fun when it happened—but I can’t really imagine that continuing to happen with any regularity over a long period of working the puzzles.

I was looking for there to be a kind of chess-like (or “paint by numbers”-like) thing on the harder puzzles, where I would make a putative entry mentally and then work ahead to try and find a contradiction; but could not seem to get it to work out.

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