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SOMAMASTER
Joined: 29 Apr 2011 Posts: 1
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:10 pm Post subject: Dual (2)answers to sudoku ??? Is it possible??? |
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I was doing a Sudoku from a book and my answere was correct and the published answer was correct. This is the first time this happened. Is it possible to have two correct answers to a puzzle. |
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Marty R.
Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 5770 Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:57 pm Post subject: Re: Dual (2)answers to sudoku ??? Is it possible??? |
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SOMAMASTER wrote: | I was doing a Sudoku from a book and my answere was correct and the published answer was correct. This is the first time this happened. Is it possible to have two correct answers to a puzzle. |
There are people here who know a lot more about this than I do, but yes, it's possible to have two answers. However, most published puzzles have one unique solution, so it's possible that even though you had a correct solution per Sudoku rules, you didn't have the answer the puzzle constructor had in mind. |
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Pat
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 207
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 8:18 am Post subject: |
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SOMAMASTER wrote: |
I was doing a Sudoku from a book
and my answere was correct
and the published answer was correct.
Is it possible to have two correct answers to a puzzle? |
two answers,
or more,
surely possible
but hardly desirable.
could you please tell us which book this is?
and post the puzzle as printed? |
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lundbf
Joined: 06 May 2012 Posts: 3
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Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:56 pm Post subject: Two answers to my sudoku puzzle |
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I, too, had an answer that was different than the published solution with a sudoku puzzle from"Super Sudoku Puzzles" Vol 10 published by Kappa. Since I have never heard of this happening before, I was wondering if I can post the unsolved puzzle, my solution and the published solution. If this is permissible, what is the best way to do this? Is it possible to post images?[/img] |
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Marty R.
Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 5770 Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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lundbf
Joined: 06 May 2012 Posts: 3
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:21 am Post subject: Never Mind |
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I found the reason why they were different. I had written out a duplicate of the puzzle after the first was wrong. One the duplicate, I forgot to include one of the printed numbers. It is very interesting how the absence of one number can allow for a totally different working answer... essentially one number juxtaposed between two boxes. |
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lundbf
Joined: 06 May 2012 Posts: 3
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 12:24 am Post subject: Thank you |
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Thanks for your response! I see how to place a grid in a non HTML format, thanks to your posting. |
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