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[Timbo]

What is up with that lol

Timbo

[zetec]

I'm only going to say this once:

SUDOKU IS FUCKING GAY

Can't this fad die already?

[Spectatrix]

I prefer Kakuro. At least there's some math involved there (barely).

[hodge]

logic puzzles are fun, at least we have a fad that makes people think.

[kcroxyoursox]

i like sudoku. my book comes with some cross sums which are slightly more mathlike, and then some nonograms which are so difficult i cant even figure out the directions using the example as a guide. i like exercising my brain while my professors seem to want to turn it to mush

[Spectatrix]

i like sudoku. my book comes with some cross sums which are slightly more mathlike, and then some nonograms which are so difficult i cant even figure out the directions using the example as a guide. i like exercising my brain while my professors seem to want to turn it to mush

I have a computer program that does nonograms I could send it to you if you'd like.

Edit: It's located here if you wanna download it: http://students.cs.byu.edu/~hec23/logicpaint.zip

This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Apr 18 2006, 12:34 PM

[kcroxyoursox]

i just dont even know how to do them

[Spectatrix]

i just dont even know how to do them

It's not too hard once you get used to it. For instance, say you have a row 15 spaces long and the # for it is 10. You know that the middle five spaces have to be blacked out because no matter whether the 10 starts at the left end or ends at the right end, those middle five boxes are gonna be covered.

[zetec]

you're all gay

[chook]

you're all gay

[Timbo]

I'm only going to say this once:

SUDOKU IS FUCKING GAY

Can't this fad die already?

Correct.

Timbo

[kcroxyoursox]

It's not too hard once you get used to it. For instance, say you have a row 15 spaces long and the # for it is 10. You know that the middle five spaces have to be blacked out because no matter whether the 10 starts at the left end or ends at the right end, those middle five boxes are gonna be covered.

ok that part i get but what if its like



9 1 5 7
5 3 4 6
1 2
4

5

6 9 3

4 7

2






psst i made those numbers up but yeah where its stacked like that

[kcroxyoursox]

but what if its like this one



where they are stacked on top of each other

[Spectatrix]

but what if its like this one



where they are stacked on top of each other

Ok, I didn't do that one, but I created one in LogicPaint on "normal" mode with the same dimensions (10x20).

It's easiest to start with a row or column that has a large number in it. So for example, here:



So what I did with row 4 was start from the left. I put in 6, 1, 1, 1, 3, and 1 with just a single space in between. Now notice there are 2 spaces left on the far right. That's the max that everything can move over. So I remove 2 marks from the left of each segment, like so:



Now I do the same thing with column 2, starting from the top (ignore that random mark in the top row--I guess I clicked there accidentally before taking my screenshot):



Now note that in row 3 and row 9, the first # is a 3. There's a tick in the 2nd column for both of those, so you know that they're either going to have ticks in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd columns or the 2nd, 3rd, 4rd. Either way, there's gonna be a tick in the 3rd column, so I mark the spots at (3,3) and (9,3) as well. In row 5, the first # is a 1 and there's a tick in column 2 already... can't have ticks to either side or it'd be a 2 or 3 block in that row, so I mark (5,1) and (5,3) as spaces (right-clicking in LogicPaint). All this results in the following:



And so on and so forth... make sense?

This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Apr 18 2006, 06:30 PM

[zetec]

no.