SuDoku Challenge

L4 · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject: SuDoku Challenge

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SUDOKU CHALLENGE
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For part of my degree i have been developing su doku software. One of these is designed to produce results on the playability of the game depending on the input set used.
Could anyone and everyone please have a go at the experiment, it doesnt take that long and its fun to do.
The url is:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.warwick/Su/SuDokuIndex.html

Thanks for your time.

Phil

Ruud · Site Admin

Hi,

I have removed the extra post you made in this forum. There is no need to post anything twice in a forum, no matter how important you think it is.

Secondly, taking the challenge on your website fails because I need to logon. I have no user ID nor a password for your site. This is something thay you may want to fix.

Ruud.

rwaddilove · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject: How times have changed

>For part of my degree i have been developing su doku software.

When I was at university, we had to work, not play games!

You kids have it easy these days. When I was at university you had to submit your program to the computing department who then turned it into a stack of puched cards several days later. They fed them into the machine and about a week later you'd get a report that said "Syntax error!" Doh!

L4 · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: Works Now !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry the game previously didnt work becasue of a university firewall. It is now hosted elsewhere and will work. The url is:

http://www.sudokupuzzles.me.uk/Su/SuDoku/SuDokuIndex.html

Please have a go its really fun and doesnt take too long.

Thanks

Phil

gypsy fly · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 5:17 am Post subject:

Interesting. I'm trying the same approach on kids. For now, my goal is to help those challenged by digits to recognized their learning styles.

I'll play your challenge tomorrow when I'm at the unibersity.

jdport · Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject:

I have seen puzzles with symbols and the like before, I find them much more difficult to work on than puzzles with digits. For one thing I can't cycle through a list of symbols in my head as easily as I can numbers. Letters aren't so bad, since I can cycle through them fairly quickly but I still find numbers easier. With symbols you can't do any marking up very easily (though on these puzzles it wasn't necessary anyway) and symbols take more brain processing to identify than numbers do.

Ruud · Site Admin

L4 · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: Game

Its really interesting the kinds of feedback i am getting from people. The results suggest that using shapes is much harder than the others. Using colours however gets mixed reports, like you they find it hard to enter values as there is no obvious sequence to the values, however some people find it easier because they can spot patterns more easily.

I am about to put up a solvers assistant tool thats pretty cool and helps you answer the puzzles, will keep you all posted.

Phil

Ruud · Site Admin

L4 · Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: Multiple variables

Well the reasons why i have differing input sets and grid sizes is to try and look into whether there is a relationship between the two different variables. TO see how the grid size and input style effect the time to complete a puzzle. It will also allow me to generate mathmatic equations for predicting the average time to complete puzzles with much larger grids.

Phil

L4 · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: New Su Doku Game

OK guys you have to check out this new experiment. The program is a solvers assistant to help you complete a puzzle.
Its really interesting so why dont you just give it a try.

The url is:

http://www.sudokupuzzles.me.uk/SuAssistant/index.html

Thanks for taking part its being really helpfull.

Cheers

Phil