Medium X 9 by 9

[Aaron Helmle]

I am all rusty. Took me a while to get these together, but only because I didn't remember how. But, here goes a set of 9 by 9 medium x.

Then I put a song on to play and it just wasn't working. That happens when the speakers aren't connected.

aaron


Puzzle 1
-74 -3- 2--
68- -4- -39
-3- -78 6--

--1 --- ---
--- --- ---
--- --- 1--

--5 36- -9-
34- -5- -26
--6 -2- 35-

Puzzle 2
-75 2-- 91-
4-- --- 6-7
69- -1- --5

--- --- --6
--1 --- 4--
3-- --- ---

1-- -8- -79
2-7 --- --8
-38 --7 26-


Puzzle 3
2-- 37- --9
-1- -29 -3-
--- --- ---

-5- -1- --3
76- 2-5 -94
1-- -9- -5-

--- --- ---
-2- 75- -4-
5-- -64 --7


Puzzle 4
489 --- 3-2
--- 2-7 --1
7-- -3- --5

-3- --- -2-
--5 --- 6--
-2- --- -1-

2-- -7- --9
8-- 9-4 ---
3-1 --- 487


Puzzle 5
9-6 8-- --2
--- 4-- ---
--4 9-6 8--

6-- -89 5--
-9- --- -6-
--7 36- --8

--5 6-8 3--
--- --5 ---
4-- --1 9-6



-----Original Message-----
From: blind-...@googlegroups.com <blind-...@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Dani Pagador
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 2:44 PM
To: blind-...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [BlindSudoku] Goodbye, WebSudoku Access *crying, distraught face*

Hi, Rosemarie.
Yay. I'm so glad you're still here. It's good to have the family back.
I don't have a puzzle preference. I still haven't managed to work my way to doing evils or extremes. I was just wanting something different, but familiar, to add back in to my routine. So I guess it'd be everything up through the hards and hard Xs. I like the 9x9 grid best. Anything bigger makes my brain unhappy.

I'm waiting on my NLS proofreading exam results to come in, and am making a clandestine transcription of National Braille Association's
2016 Formats Study Guide to work through and then do a test with them to get certified for textbook transcription. I could only buy it as a pdf; they wouldn't sell a hard copy Braille version to me, so I'll make my own; but they'll sell a hard copy print version to a sighted person. Go figure. So between proofreading and fixing my transcription and working through what I've already finished transcribing, I needed a fun diversion besides YouTube, coffee, and cookies.

Off to start my day. Got housework and studying to do. Can't wait for fall. It's supposed to start tomorrow, but our fall doesn't kick in till November, and then barely.

More Later,
Dani










On 9/21/20, 'Rosemarie Grayley' via The Blind Sudoku Discussion Group <blind-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Hi Dani:
>
> Goodness, it's been a while since this list came alive. It is good to
> hear from you and looking at the inbox, I see other familiar names
> have popped up.
>
> I rarely do puzzles now. Too much difficulty with my hands.
> Unfortunately, I've discarded the thousands of puzzles that were in my
> computer a long time ago. The house lightened by quite a bit. That's
> bad news about your windows
> 10 and or your older jaws not cooperating. I'm still hanging on with
> win7 and Jaws 13. So far so good.
>
> I'm pretty much a homebody, even so it can be tiresome at times with
> this enforced isolation. And, it is dangerous to go into the kitchen
> with the friendly fridge and that troublemaking cookie jar!
>
> My Sudoku program still works. What is your puzzle preference these days?
>
> Best, Rosemarie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blind-...@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:blind-...@googlegroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Dani Pagador
> Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 3:44 AM
> To: blind-sudoku <blind-...@googlegroups.com>
> Subject: [BlindSudoku] Goodbye, WebSudoku Access *crying, distraught
> face*
>
> Hi, Guys.
>
> Hope everyone is doing well and staying sane. Covid-19 is making me nuts.
> Choosing to be a homebody voluntarily is one thing--I normally
> am,--but to be made to be a homebody is something totally else. I need
> puzzles. There's only so much YouTube a girl can watch, and cookies,
> especially my latest favorite to bake, are great for the tummy but hell on the hips.
>
> I wanted some puzzles this morning and tried to access WebSudoku
> Deluxe. The program opened, but I can't get any more puzzles. I can
> virtualize the window and copy the results to the clipboard fine; they
> paste to favorite word processor, but the graphics that we used to
> replace with hyphens no longer show up, at least with the Win10 2004
> version. I'm two or so versions of JFW behind, so that could be a problem, too. But for now, no puzzles.
> Stick to Win7 or 8 if you can, for as long as you can.
>
> Write back if you want the cookie recipe.
>
> 'Nuff for Now,
> Dani
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[Dani Pagador]

Thanks, Aaron. Will work these, or at least one of them, with my morning coffee.

More Later,
Dani

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[Rosemarie Grayley]

Thanks for these, Aaron. Medium X is about my speed these days.

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[mary...@sbcglobal.net]

Dani:

How did you do with that medium x? The reason I am asking is that I thought that first medium X behaved more like a hard x than a medium. I could not place any numbers immediately by just looking at the columns and rows. I had to look at the x and eliminate possibilities without actually being able to place the numbers. That is usually hard X territory. It was a fun puzzle.

I think I did easy puzzles for a whole year. For some reason, starting to do x puzzles helped me graduate to more difficult levels. Maybe that is because I am so spatially challenged. I think I would probably put myself in the bottom tenth percentile on that. There are people who are worse, but not many of them. So doing x puzzles was sort of a baptism of fire.

And could you please email me some of those cookies? They sound so good.

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[Dani Pagador]

Mary,
I managed the first puzzle, but had to redo it five or six times. I
tend to scroll too fast, or track wrong, so stuff got put in the wrong
place, and there would eventually be two of something in a row where
there should only be one.

I know for that first box ai was able to place the 2 and the 9 in the
third column because the 5 and 1 were out for sqs6&9, and because
there was a 9 in row 2 and a 2 in the left leg of the X. I had to use
the 1 and 5 as placeholders in sqs1&7. The rest of it is a blur.

Would love to e-mail you cookies and some dark roasted coffee. Great
stuff to puzzle with.

More Later,
Dani

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[Dani Pagador]

Re Puzzle 2 of same batch, that one has that trick thing Aaron
mentioned where if all of the four courner boxes have a number in them
but none of that number is in any part of the legs of the X, the
number will go in the middle cell of the puzzle i.e., box5 cell5. Hope
that makes sense.

More Later,
Dani

[mary...@sbcglobal.net]

I think it's fun when that happens, when a number had to be in the center square because it's blocked at all four corners.

I thought for a while that that first one was going to have two solutions, but it doesn't.

I think I'm addicted again.

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[Aaron Helmle]

I had forgotten that trick. I need training wheels.

I am stuck on hard x 1. I will look to see if that trick helps.

Aaron

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[Dani Pagador]

I'm stuck on it, too. I found a few, a v-e-r-y few, numbers. Nothing
jumps out. No ghost candidates, no direct possibilities. This one
could be evil masquerading as hard.

I dug out my board thinking having the puzzle laid out physically inn
front of me would help. If anything, it will keep Miss Quick Scroll
with the BrailleEdge from popping up.

More Later,
Dani

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