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Tarek, again thanks a lot for an excellent Apprentice level puzzle.
I enjoyed solving it.

Here a mini-mini Walktrough:

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I'm glad you liked it Børge ....

I've been lagging behind in terms of solving Samurais .....Will try to catch up...

Do you know how many are reviewing our puzzles ?

Will try to optimize my solver to genrate better NOVICE puzzles in the upcoming weeks.

tarek

From the rating I knew that there would be at least one X-Wing and I saw it and another one (that later dissolved) much earlier than I actually decided to deploy the one I posted in my Walktrough. I first wanted to see how far I could solve using N/H-Singles, Intersections and N/H-Subsets only.

My puzzles:    currently none.
Your puzzles:  one person, me.

From the number of views, I would say that around 20-30 people are viewing and probably also solving our puzzles.
I interpret your question that you as I are a bit disappointed about the lack of feedback.

I must say I envy the Killer group a bit. They are a group of around 10 people, which review each other's puzzles and take turn creating them.

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I'm reviewing them, but I just can't get through them very fast. I save the puzzles you and Børge and others post and put them in my to-do pile, though.

I'm not into the killers, so I appreciate the samurai, clueless, kazaguruma, etc. that are being posted here. I have several friends whom I refer here for puzzles, as well, although I haven't yet heard back on whether they have completed any. Most of them are still pretty much beginners.

Do I understand correctly that "Apprentice" puzzles require nothing more difficult than an X-wing? I can handle that. I hate having to set aside an unfinished puzzle until I have the time to learn whatever new technique it requires.

Thanks enxio27 & Børge,

As Børge mentioned, I think that from time to time, it would be nice to hear something from someone just to make sure that an interest is present.

I agree that the views number next to the thread name indicate that somebody does read these pages.

I would suggest to Børge what I'm starting to do which is to generate as many puzzles in advance & keep them as backup for posting in case a desire to generate more puzzles doesn't exist.

Yes, anything that has the word apprentice attached to it requires nothing more than subsets &/OR X-wings to solve .... to me this level is similar to the "Superior" level sudokus which Pappocom used to publish.

tarek

I did have a 3-4 weeks stock of puzzles, but used it up during my holiday in July. Since then I have been so busy that I have not been able to make a new one, so now the puzzles are made just minutes before posting. If things then do not go as planned, this can cause problems, like yesterday, forcing me to postpone the Regular Clueless Explosion #20 Master puzzles until today.

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