Boldts' Omnifarium http://www.boldts.net/blog being a divers assortment of our opinions, musings and rants en #60 http://www.boldts.net/blog/2006/05/21#60

In my last Sudoku weblog posting, I described another solving technique I recently stumbled upon. Of course, I added the technique to my program. I was initially quite pleased to see my program generate lots of puzzles that needed to use this technique. However, additional analysis turned up something. Many of the generated puzzles had the undesirable property of having multiple solutions.

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 #59 http://www.boldts.net/blog/2006/05/07#59

After doing Sudoku puzzles for about a year, you might think there's nothing left to learn about the puzzle. On the contrary, I never believed for a moment that I knew all there is to know about Sudoku. Actually, I always suspected that there was yet another solving technique to be discovered. And finally, this past week, I came across that technique.

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 #58 http://www.boldts.net/blog/2006/04/09#58

That's it, I've had enough of creating Sudoku puzzles.

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 #57 - January Web Stats http://www.boldts.net/blog/2006/02/11#57

I just looked at my web stats for last month. My web site served up a total of 27,206 PDF files. At a hundred puzzles per PDF, that's a grand total of 2,720,600 puzzles printed out during the month!

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 #56 http://www.boldts.net/blog/2005/11/11#56

In #55, I commented about the 2001st puzzle posted to my Sudoku Puzzles. I said that it was perhaps time to slow down a bit. Well, two and a half months later, I just posted the 32,900th puzzle!

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 #55 http://www.boldts.net/blog/2005/08/28#55

It hasn't been long since I started making my puzzles available in a new format. I had expected to post 10 or 20 once every week or so. But today, I just uploaded my 2001st puzzle. If you solve one of these puzzles a day, you now have enough puzzles for five and a half years!

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