Feedback and Questions

Dear Mr. Stuart,
first I want to praise the quality and scope of the Sudokuwiki, really impressing!

I am retired, so I don't have much idle time and I limit my activity to the basic sudoku, not even the very tough, just moderate ones.

I purchase printed brochures with sudoku puzzles, enter them im your solver to print them and solve on the paper. In last several months I had problems with printing the sudoku with given numbers only, instead of printing empty cells blank, solver fills them with all nine candidates, distorting the cells.

To avoid this problem, I start solving the sudoku on-line as far as I can without writing the candidates, then choose the option "Automatically clear" and repeat the last solved candidate to obtain the real remaining candidates and then print the sudoku with them.

Can you help me with this problem? Why empty cells can't be really empty?

Once again, thank you for running this excellent site!

Kind regrds, Boris Halasz, Zagreb, Croatia

Thank you so much for your Killer Sudoku Solver, just helped me after I got stuck for an hour while also teaching me something!

I got stuck on this NYT sudoku so I entered it in your solver. But your solver took some steps and then got stuck looking for naked pairs/triples (it says "wait") and it is no longer possible to take any steps

I love your killer Sudoku solver. I usually make a mistake because of the notes in the small squares I'm working in. I can read the notes because they are clear(better than my handwriting...lol). In general; hands down; this site is best I've worked with.

import a sudoku works once for me if I use paste. when I past another it says only 29 characters entered although there were 81. the first 52 characters in line 1 are ignored. I have tried this in 3 different browsers. same results in all

On the Sudoku solver, there are 2 buttons (Enter new killer or Modify this Killer). Pressing either button takes you to the same interface. The current killer is displayed and if you want to do a new killer, you must press the Start Over button.
Why have 2 buttons? Have one and call it Enter New/Modify this Killer.
Thanks for providing such a great tool.
Nada Savatic

I cannot print the killer sudoku any more, neither in black and white nor in colour. There seems to be an error in uploading the sudoku to the printing format. Please help!

Something is wrong with the Sudokuwiki app (Android). I have been unable to download the daily puzzle for the last two days. I just get an error message, and the puzzle list ends on Monday. Thanks for your attention.

Hi

Love the site. Apologies if mentioned before but it would be mega if you could enhance the Killer solver to allow mini "brute force" to complete the solving a puzzle when the solver has run out of logical steps. The technique I have ended up using with your tool is a manual logic tree where from the first point I am forced to make a guess, say for example on a choice of 2 numbers in a cell ... I record that cell and choice made (a number or a pair etc) as a guess node and then continue with logic solving. If another guess required then I create a new guess node beneath the prior one ... and continue to traverse the logic tree, returning to the prior guess node when an error detected and choosing alternate guess. If guess node choice is exhausted, then go to parent guess node. Could you do this?

The latest glitch I have found is the Arto Inklo Escargot puzzle. It's wrong. It has an extra given digit that doesn't belong there. This would affect solve time, your difficulty calculations, etc., etc.