Introduce yourself

[JBL]

Feel free to post a little presentation about yourself, how you discovered Sudoku, why you like it, and what you like about it.

I am from France, and I discovered the Sudoku in a Word Games magazine in February 2005. To tell you the truth, I was first attracted by the name ... but I quickly became addicted, and even if I am not very good, there is something hypnotising...

Your turn now

[Jarda]

Last Friday, I have found SUDOKU in a local newspaper (Czech Republic, Europe) during lunch.

Later on I started thinking about it. I spent half ot the weekend (to a great disapointment of my honey, although she has a PhD in maths as well) staring up the ceiling, mindbrushing in order to discover an efficient algorithm to solve it generally.

During hands-on training, my personal results went from 6:30 (easy) to 15:00 (hard), with +100% overhead proportional to the nuber of drinks I've had there.

Today, after work, 3 hours in the backroom of a silent bar with my blue-collar shovel, there exists an alpha solving correctly. 120 ms on 1.6G IBM Thinkpad as an average.

My first assumption was that my shovel has to solve any of these under 1 sec. Is this an NP-complete stuff? Imho not, as the results tend to show, it seems to be a P-hard problem. Is it so? Does anybody know?

I'll be back asap, btw using not C++, but an old-fashioned Delphi 5 (Pascal, in fact).

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Gonna sleep

Jarda

[Guest]

Sudoku looks nice!!

[kinxofmetal]

when i'd been an 8year-old girl i saw sudoku in a book of my grandpa. i tried it but didnt really understood.

3 or 4 years ago it appered in a very acquainted magazine.
6 months ago i was bored and everything seemed to be oh-so-boring to me. then i got a paper in my hand with a sudoko on it. i tried it - just for fun and i enjoyed it very much!
last month i got a sudokobook with about 1000 sudokus in it and now i play from time to time.
it's awesome! but i have to say i am not very good...

[lynn]

Hi, I'm Lynn from US.

I got hooked onto Sudoku after my best friend introduced it to me a few years ago.

To me Sudoku is a great game puzzle. In a way, I find it challenging and fun. I am quite into it and have even set up a site at www.SecretSudokuSolver.com.

Looking forward to sharing ideas with all.

[kalyan]

Hi every one
I am kalyan from India

Its been an year since the sudoku crazyness caught me.
I became so mad it that it compelled me in creating a website dedicated to sudoku's - AnytimeSudoku.com

If you are also a sudoku die hard fan, the just enjoy sudokuing. If possible please dont hesitate to become my friend

[earthworm]

I am probably addicted to this game - things could be far worse...
I must find some stratagy(sp) info...

[clilian]

Hi,

I am a french games developper, and I discovered Sudoku two years ago.

I'm not an expert player though, as I don't have enough time to practice. But I enjoy Sudoku enough to have created my own game, grid generator, and solver !

Lilian

[aimien]

Hello Sudokers. I'm new and shy a little bit .