rcbroughton wrote:
Well - it's kinda working as I am getting better.
Very nice!
Just don't abandon us, please!
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Unfortunately, I can't look inside JSudoku - it doesn't have source code and I'd be uncomfortable reverse-engineering somebody else's work (even if I could do it).
I understand--I was hoping that perhaps the .jar file (which can be opened with WinRAR) could tell you something. I don't know anything about Java coding, but I thought that maybe, just maybe, the puzzle types are in that file and could be expanded/added to.
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I'll drop by those other sites you mentioned - see if anything clicks.
The Players' forum seems to be the busiest, although that is relatively speaking. It's nowhere near as busy as even the smaller forums were back in sudoku's heyday. Right now they seem to be focused on collecting classic sudoku with specific patterns, although ArkieTech has been generating some interest with his series of puzzles, as well.
If you can get tarek's or simon-blow-snow's attention (perhaps via email?), they have some experience with generating multi-grid puzzles. Among other puzzles, tarek created the
Bank Holiday 1108 Sumo, and simon-blow-snow devised some puzzles he called
Ninja and Kunoichi (the latter he made expressly for me). tarek also contributed a
Clueless Special and several Kazagaruma to the Gattai forum, as well as numerous Samurai in the regular Samurai collection here.