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Enjoy solving sudoku! My times are nowhere near the times I see posted on this forum but I enjoy the challenge all the same. After a while I became bored with the pencilwork involved so I wrote a program in Excel to do the work for me. I copy the puzzle into excel and then every cell is immediately pencilled in with every possible solution. As I solve cells I can choose to update all cells at any time.Took a long time to write the program but it was every bit as challenging as solving sudoku and as enjoyable. The program was written on Excel 97 platform and is roughly 1.7 MB in size. Would like to send you a copy for your assessment but it is much too large for an email.

Having read stryve's post I can only say that I heartily agree. If you were to give me a printout of the solution I could not fill in the digits in some of the times I have seen posted on the site. I don't understand the satisfaction some people derive from "beating the system".

I would say remove the pause feature from the program. The world won't end if somebody has to quit a puzzle. They could leave the site and resume with a new puzzle on return. Those Geniuses that solve a puzzle in six seconds do not need to avail themselves of the pause feature. In addition, if a puzzle is requested by number instead of at random I woulld not accept that time as valid. Perhaps a little harsh here but why discourage newbies with impossible target times?

I am new to this forum. I have been playing the GAME for a while and I find I do not believe the times that are turned in for extreme puzzles (1min 28 seconds; (who the _ _ _ _ do you think your kidding.) If indeed some of those virtually impossible times posted are valid (as in no pauses or other cheats) then I apologize to those brainiacs and advise them to seek employment in the rocket science sector. Personally I would like to see the administrators post an extreme game once a day at a given time and let all players attack said game at the same time and then see who can post the earliest solution and subsequent times.
I entered the above post in the ???What???s your time for extreme category??? .However I believe it is applicable to all catagories. For the record ???..my personal best for Extreme is 3 min 02secs. My worst is 18 min. 26 seconds. Let me say at this point I sometimes cheat.

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I am new to this forum. I have been playing the GAME for a while and I find I do not believe the times that are turned in for extreme puzzles. If indeed the times posted are valid (as in no pauses or other cheats) then I apologize to those brainiacs and advise them to seek employment in the rocket science sector. Personally I would like to see the administrators post an extreme game once a day at a given time and let all players attack said game at the same time and then see who can post the earliest solution and susequent times.