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marblevolcano
Posted on: Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:07 am
Posts: 279 Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 2:17 pm
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Re: Blind spot
Here's a really silly moment: I was doing today's 4x4 easy and I started pressing all the keys, but nothing was showing up on the screen. The number pad worked... but not the keys. So I was thinking of reporting it in Bugs and Errors, and then I realized: I WASN'T PRESSING THE NUMBER KEYS!!!!!
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jaek
Posted on: Mon Jun 05, 2017 11:08 pm
Posts: 300 Joined: Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:15 pm
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Re: Blind spot
I was blazing through my timed 8x8 today. I was going to finish in under three minutes - easily a top 100 time for me. And I would have too, if only 4, 7 and 8 was a legitimate factorization of 112.
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paulv66
Posted on: Tue Jun 06, 2017 12:28 am
Posts: 959 Location: Ukraine Joined: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:03 pm
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Re: Blind spot
jaek wrote: I was blazing through my timed 8x8 today. I was going to finish in under three minutes - easily a top 100 time for me. And I would have too, if only 4, 7 and 8 was a legitimate factorization of 112. Been there, done that!
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marblevolcano
Posted on: Tue Jun 06, 2017 1:44 am
Posts: 279 Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 2:17 pm
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Re: Blind spot
One time (I can't remember when) on a certain puzzle (I can't remember that either ) I got stuck on a certain factorization of a certain thing (GAH) and I COULD NOT SOLVE IT and I was CONVINCED that the puzzle had no solution. I almost emailed Patrick about it... Oh! It was puzzle A2V2 a while ago, and I thought the 1890X cage was only 189 Yeah... Zero doesn't exist
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beaker
Posted on: Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:28 am
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Re: Blind spot
NO BLIND SPOTS TODAY on the timed 5x5 with a best time of 39.089 seconds !!
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paulv66
Posted on: Sun Jun 11, 2017 12:34 am
Posts: 959 Location: Ukraine Joined: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:03 pm
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Re: Blind spot
Well done beaker! I had a really stupid blind spot in a book puzzle (a2z12), where I got totally stuck because I had 236 as the solution to 3:. When I changed it to 126, I solved the problem fairly quickly, then went to submit it online just before midnight CET. Unfortunately, by the time I loaded the page, it was changing over to June 11th and I ended up submitting it around 30 seconds too late. So, no book puzzles submitted yesterday and only 1 more possible today.
Last edited by paulv66 on Sun Jun 11, 2017 10:13 am, edited 1 time in total.
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marblevolcano
Posted on: Sun Jun 11, 2017 1:31 am
Posts: 279 Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 2:17 pm
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Re: Blind spot
HRMMM I was rocking all the timed puzzles for today (two sub-10 second 4x4s - one of them my 6th best - and two sub-30 5x5s) and then I failed the first puzzle. Then, when almost done with the second, I pressed the reload key or something and it was gone. It was so infuriating, especially after such a good start.
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paulv66
Posted on: Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:40 pm
Posts: 959 Location: Ukraine Joined: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:03 pm
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Re: Blind spot
Another classic blind spot for me today. I kept getting stuck on the difficult 9x9 and went over it again and again. I had worked out that the numbers in a particular multiplication cage must add up to a particular total and had one combination in mind that turned out not to be the only possible solution. When I figured this out, I finally managed to solve the puzzle, but I figure I spent well over an hour in total working on it.
Which brings me to a question for Patrick. My total time for the puzzle was shown as just over 39 minutes. I'm pretty certain that I spent a lot more time than this working on it, but some of the time I quit out of the puzzle without saving it in order to go back to an earlier saved version. It occurs to me that the time spend on these attempts may not have been included in the total time shown. Is that correct and, if so, is there any way of changing that s so that actual total time spent is shown?
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marblevolcano
Posted on: Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:14 pm
Posts: 279 Joined: Sun May 22, 2016 2:17 pm
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Re: Blind spot
4x cage: 1,5. OH YEAH
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pnm
Posted on: Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:57 am
Posts: 3305 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: Blind spot
paulv66 wrote: Which brings me to a question for Patrick. My total time for the puzzle was shown as just over 39 minutes. I'm pretty certain that I spent a lot more time than this working on it, but some of the time I quit out of the puzzle without saving it in order to go back to an earlier saved version. Yes, I'd need to save the time taken so far separately, not only when you save a puzzle. I'll look into this..
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