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August 26, 2006
Killer Sudoku online
After a month's development on the Sudoku generator extension, we can now generate accurately rated Killer Sudoku puzzles!
Posted by Nahoo at 12:26 AM | Comments (1)
August 21, 2006
Better visual confirmation for phpBB
I configured PHP with font support so that I can finally stop those pesky robots junking my phpBB forums. The standard VC is next to useless as it is very easy to circumvent.
If you want to spend a minute to install this new visual confirmation Better captcha from Paul Soheir, I have compiled a drop-in for all clients running phpBB 2.0.18+.
You can download a drop-in copy of Better captcha from my blog. Just extract to the main forum folder, only line 102 of profile.php has been changed from the original.
Posted by Nahoo at 05:05 PM | Comments (0)
August 17, 2006
Samurai Sudoku in The Times
We had our very first Samurai Sudoku published in The Times this Saturday. It will be the first of many of our Sudoku related puzzles that appear in The Times and Sunday Times.
Some of the new features in these puzzles include: the requirement to solve the puzzle as a whole (previously, this was rarely the case) and the letters: A, B, C, D are now the last possible squares to be solved in each of the 4 outside grids. The guide to the solving time now represents the likely time of the average player (not just a complete guess like before) and there are finally some ratings present.
Stylistically, there are colours to identify the four squares and the solutions will have the given values highlighted to make it easier to read.
We will feature regularly in the Times on Saturday in the Books section, so please have a go at our puzzles!
Posted by Nahoo at 02:41 PM | Comments (0)