| Author | Message | 
  
	|  Topic: Embedding URLs | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Site help   Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 2:11 pm   Subject: Embedding URLs | 
  
	| Thanks Pat, I've just noticed this.  Very clear! - I'll try. | 
  
	|  Topic: Menneske6905337 | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:14 am   Subject: Menneske6905337 | 
  
	| PS 1.  Hi Tim, thanks for pointing out the mistake.  I see that you too use Andrew Stuart's excellent program!  (It's maybe a bit lazy, but I often use it to dash through the basics, print out that sh ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Menneske6905337 | 
  
	| ffred 
 Replies: 14
 Views: 89583
 
 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:46 am   Subject: Menneske6905337 | 
  
	| Many apologies for the mistakes.  I was copying from my 'post-basic' sheet & (a) forgot that a couple of 4s had been filled in (b) very carelessly left out a 3. (I promise that if I post again I'l ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Menneske6905337 | 
  
	| ffred 
 Replies: 14
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 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 11:35 am   Subject: Menneske6905337 | 
  
	| +-------+-------+-------+
 | . . . | . 8 . | . 4 . |
 | . 5 . | 3 4 . | 9 . . |
 | 7 . 4 | . . . | . . . |
 +-------+-------+-------+
 | . . . | 2 6 . | . . . |
 | . . 9 | . 5 . | 7 3 . |
 | . . . | ...
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	|  Topic: Swordfish challenges | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:51 pm   Subject: Swordfish challenges | 
  
	| JC, as I said in another post, that's seriously clever. 
 I'm going to work through your solutions, though they're at or beyond my limit of understanding.  Anyway, thanks!
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	|  Topic: Embedding URLs | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Site help   Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 8:47 pm   Subject: Embedding URLs | 
  
	| Thanks, I'll try that. | 
  
	|  Topic: Embedding URLs | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Site help   Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:48 pm   Subject: Embedding URLs | 
  
	| I think I've seen people using URLs embedded in a word.  I've read the Sticky that says how to get the URL for a particular message, and managed that, but I can't figure out how to embed it in (for in ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Swordfish challenges | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:36 pm   Subject: Swordfish challenges | 
  
	| Keith suggested posting puzzles that seemed to need a swordish: http://www.dailysudoku.com/sudoku/forums/viewtopic.php?p=31626&sid=3efa30cb40f3a2f3285828d231a16763#31626
 
 This is Menneske 69125 ...
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	|  Topic: Locating swordfish patterns | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Solving techniques, and terminology   Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:18 pm   Subject: Locating swordfish patterns | 
  
	| Marty & Keith, I'm glad I'm not the only person who dislikes complex swordfish patterns - I thought I was a bit wimpish.  Soon after the sudoku craze started (04, 05?) I was given a book of puzzle ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Another M I | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 10:13 pm   Subject: Another M I | 
  
	| Thanks JC & Ronk.  Both seem good, but since I'm all for brevity I'll probably go for Ronk's, which matches what I do myself when I'm writing down moves: I write a subscript UR under the =. 
 Daj ...
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	|  Topic: Another M I | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:35 pm   Subject: Another M I | 
  
	| Or, using the UR (AUR?) 28, r14c79:- 
 3r4c7 = 1r4c79 - r6c89 = (1 - 3)r6c5 = r6c3; r4c1 <> 3
 
 (Yes, I know I should stick the letters UR or AUR in there somewhere, but I haven't yet quite fi ...
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	|  Topic: Eureka help | 
  
	| ffred 
 Replies: 18
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 |  Forum: Solving techniques, and terminology   Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 7:06 pm   Subject: Eureka help | 
  
	| Keith, thanks for the lesson.  I should have known this (maybe did at the back of my mind). 
 Ronk, thanks for the turbot fish idea - very pretty - I'd never have thought of that.  But I don't think  ...
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	|  Topic: Eureka help | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Solving techniques, and terminology   Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:39 pm   Subject: Eureka help | 
  
	| Many thanks.  Well, I'm still a bit befogged, but it's given food for research.  (You're talking concepts that are unknown to me. Well, I had heard of turbot fish but, perhaps wrongly, assumed that th ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Menneske impossible | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:33 pm   Subject: Menneske impossible | 
  
	| You guys are fast workers! 
 I used the ALS pair A = (6,7)r1c5 , B = (3,4,6,7) r3c356, doubly linked by 6 & 7.  r3c8 <>3, r12c4 <> 6. Followed by a UR type 1: r2c4 = 4.
 
 I'll study  ...
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	|  Topic: Another M I | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:28 pm   Subject: Another M I | 
  
	| Another Menneske Impossible 'that ain't' 
 +--------------------+------------------+------------------+
 | 5    469    1      | 346  7      3469 | 28    69    28   |
 | 8    24679  2469   | 2456 1256 ...
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	|  Topic: Eureka help | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Solving techniques, and terminology   Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:43 am   Subject: Eureka help | 
  
	| I guess I'm being silly. I didn't want to post the complete puzzle because my sheet is so scribbled over that I thought I'd wait until I got home & restart.  But here it is, hopefully correct.  (I ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Menneske impossible | 
  
	| ffred 
 Replies: 9
 Views: 77144
 
 |  Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:14 am   Subject: Menneske impossible | 
  
	| Hi. I introduced myself in the theory forum & said that I'd post a few Menneskes.  Before going on a short trip I ran off some post-basic sheets of Menneske 'impossibles', and here's one. I can't  ... | 
  
	|  Topic: Eureka help | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Solving techniques, and terminology   Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:01 am   Subject: Eureka help | 
  
	| Thanks Ted.  Unfortunately, I didn't explain properly - my fault.  The 6s in r2 & r9 aren't strongly linked. Perhaps I should just have put up the whole puzzle. 
 This is an atypical example. I'v ...
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	|  Topic: Eureka help | 
  
	| ffred 
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 |  Forum: Solving techniques, and terminology   Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:54 pm   Subject: Eureka help | 
  
	| Hi. Several years ago I was persuaded to try this site & quickly got hooked.  But I was very busy at both work and home & reluctantly gave up after a while. (I wish I'd joined then, and persev ... | 
  
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