I have been involved in so many development issues that blogging was sort of forgotten.

The release of version 1.2.0 of SudoCue went like a train. No single bug report has come in while I noticed several hundreds of people have already downloaded this version. Without any initiative from my side, the program is now listed at a dozen or more freeware download sites. Seems that sudokumakers are not the only people stealing stuff from the competition hehehe…

Clueless 3 has been released. These puzzles are immensely popular. Site visits have almost doubled since I started publishing them. This #3 is a naughty one. There are optional clues. Another first in sudokuworld.

New batches have arrived from SudokuGo, my little maker. About 20 of the 60,000 generated puzzles are Nightmare-worthy. The bar is very high.

Had an interesting discussion on both the programmers and the players forum about finned fish. Devised an algorithm that can find them all, regardless of the presence of vertices. My fellow programmers are a bit reluctant to follow suit and need more proof. I’ll give it to them soon. But then my solver is the first to catch any fish in a sudoku.

Lots of forum discussions going on. Especially on the player’s forum it is hard to focus on productive threads. You gotta read a lot to pick up the nice pieces.