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haba

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 9:54 am    Post subject: Puzzle collections Reply with quote

Hello!

Can anyone tell me where I can find some sudoku puzzle collections divided by classes (easy, medium, hard, etc) ? Preferably in some format, such as sdm?

Thank You very much
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 1:25 am    Post subject: Re: Puzzle collections Reply with quote

haba wrote:
Hello!

Can anyone tell me where I can find some sudoku puzzle collections divided by classes (easy, medium, hard, etc) ? Preferably in some format, such as sdm?

Thank You very much


Rating puzzles, that is sorting them by difficulty, is much harder than solving them.

Your question has no answer, except possibly to you, and you will change.Smile
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Right, but from looking around the forum, I see some people are rating the puzzles according to their difficulty by looking at the type of techniques used. I guess this is the best way so far?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

haba wrote:
Right, but from looking around the forum, I see some people are rating the puzzles according to their difficulty by looking at the type of techniques used. I guess this is the best way so far?


another not really positive answer.

The terms "easy, medium, hard" correspond to very different puzzles whether you are looking at published puzzles or really "hard puzzles", normally not published in the newspapers.

If you are looking for puzzles that can not be solved just using your pencil, then you can find a nice collection of such puzzles in the "lost so far" player's forum.

I personnally worked with the results of the patterns game, about 8000 puzzles giving a good sample of various difficulties.

Some files are available in different places (top 95 top 1465 gsf's file, tarek's file) but this is more if you are looking for very hard puzzles;

Regarding the rating, you can download "sudoku explainer" , not very good for hardest, but a well known reference

champagne
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

champagne wrote:
If you are looking for puzzles that can not be solved just using your pencil, then you can find a nice collection of such puzzles in the "lost so far" the Sudoku Players' Forum.

I personnally worked with the results of the Patterns Game, about 8000 puzzles giving a good sample of various difficulties.

Regarding the rating, you can download Sudoku Explainer
-- not very good for hardest, but a well known reference.


rated puzzles from Patterns Game # 106
have now been posted at
http://www.setbb.com/sudoku/viewtopic.php?t=1918
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