Times solving tips

The Times provides some solving tips for the samunamupure....

Sudoku variations

Here's a well-written list (with examples) of all the different types of sudokus. Finally, someone explains to me what the heck the diagonal sudokus are.

I can't find a killer sudoku solver, PERIOD

There are no working samunamupure solvers out there. Prove me wrong, please!

Of course, here's my wishlist for them:

• Easy to input game
• Provides step-by-step solving
• Provides hints

In essence, it would be nice if it were as easy to use as Sudoku Solver by Logic.

UPDATE: There are some, but they are unpleasant to use!

Any good sources of daily killer sudokus online?

Ideally, of course, I want an infinite supply, not just a daily one. And graded by difficulty. (Like Web Sudoku.)

And playable online. (In this case, NOT like Web Sudoku.)

By the way, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Miniclip's Sudoku implementation. It is by the far the fastest and easiest (regular) sudoku to play online. Unfortunately, the sudokus just aren't that difficult -- I can tear through the hardest ones in 7 minutes, on average. (OK, maybe I'm slow and retarded -- I don't know how I compare -- but that's pretty fast, I find.) I wish I could have something Miniclip-like with evil sudokus only. A man can dream, can't he?

Oh, and when you print them, please make them bigger than 10 cm square? We need space for the pencilmarks. Thanks oh so much.

Sudoku dreams

I'm glad I found the samunamupure.

I was doing so many sudokus I was dreaming about them. Or perhaps worse, I wasn't even dreaming about scribbling numbers into grids, but was rather dreaming about rearranging non-numerical objects (people, animals, appliances) in rows and columns to create kabballistic designs of asymmetric harmony.

I'm a freak, I know.

So far, the killer sudoku has banished the casual sudoku from my mind. I am free, for now.

Any sudoku freaks out there want to help moderate this thing too?

Leave an email like this: somebody (at) domain (dot) com, or something.... I'll write you.

An Icky Solver

This killer sudoku solver will supposedly solve your samunamupure, but I can't get it to work. (Has anybody had any success with this thing?) It definitely gets a "D" on the usability scale: You click on the little blue lines on the left to select each cage, and then assign the cage total on the right hand side. (As the headline says, it's icky!) But if you're stuck, this is what desperation will do to you...

Oooh! Solution tips!

Nate Dorward seems to have created the first extensive how-to on strategies for solving with Killer Sudokus! They're pretty clever, although it isn't yet down to an repeatable algorithm. I just wish it would help solve the Tough example from the Times.

Samunamupure official fish

The official fish of the samunamupure is hereby the Hawaiian Reef Triggerfish.

Why? Because the fish's Hawaiian name is the humuhumunukunukuapua'a, which is the only name that makes the Engrish portmanteau "samunamupure" look good. (Its name means something like "fish who comes out of the water and sounds like a pig.")

Oh, and as the song says, the fish goes swimming by, presumably in a leisurely manner. A lot like my brain when I'm talking to somebody on the phone while trying to puzzle out a sudoku. I("I'm sorry, did you say something? Oh yeah, right, that make sense.")

Hi Everybody!

OK, I did sudokus. Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt. (Which says "I survived Ariadne's thread.")

I wanted something more interesting, and found it with the samunamupure -- the "Killer Sudoku," as the Times of London has it. They have a good summary of it, with five examples ordered by difficulty.

This blog is just a little place to aggregate best sources of samunamupure/killer sudokus, as well as the best solving strategies. Hope it helps you all out. You can always find this blog at: samunamupure.com. Why, it's so easy to type, I'm sure everyone will use it!