While I've still got those problems, I now do have a sudoku
Now that I've gotten my angry rant quota for this event done, I'm going to take a different approach for the rest of the tournament. (Sure, I could comment on asymmetric sudoku, or the lack of "free" drinks at meals at this hotel, or the fact bugs (probably let in when room service opens the windows mid-day) have bitten three of my fingers and I'll be wearing socks on my hands the rest of these nights, or how torturous dinner tonight at another hotel of much different character was, but I have gotten my cathartic purge done.)
Instead of reacting to events, I will be posting "pre-blogging" thoughts about rounds I composed before arriving and also practice puzzles I wrote for the US team. To start, I'll just post a sudoku I created over dinner tonight in Rijeka at the awards ceremony. I was trying to teach some people (a US and Greek team member) how to write a sudoku, and how to learn some things from the process. I got a suggestion for a favorite logical step, and started to construct a puzzle that uses the step a whole lot. The form I finished at the table was slightly broken (sorry!) and overly easy on a first pass as all the extra givens compromise some early logical steps. But I spent the 10 minutes to tweak and erase givens and am pretty happy with this result that preserves my intended path. This is what would be a fitting WSC classic sudoku from me, constructed over dessert. And not unlike many other hand-crafted ones I've made. And you'll find some fitting WPC puzzles over the next couple posts too. Just no more live reaction for awhile.
Instead of reacting to events, I will be posting "pre-blogging" thoughts about rounds I composed before arriving and also practice puzzles I wrote for the US team. To start, I'll just post a sudoku I created over dinner tonight in Rijeka at the awards ceremony. I was trying to teach some people (a US and Greek team member) how to write a sudoku, and how to learn some things from the process. I got a suggestion for a favorite logical step, and started to construct a puzzle that uses the step a whole lot. The form I finished at the table was slightly broken (sorry!) and overly easy on a first pass as all the extra givens compromise some early logical steps. But I spent the 10 minutes to tweak and erase givens and am pretty happy with this result that preserves my intended path. This is what would be a fitting WSC classic sudoku from me, constructed over dessert. And not unlike many other hand-crafted ones I've made. And you'll find some fitting WPC puzzles over the next couple posts too. Just no more live reaction for awhile.