Anyone else hopelessly hooked on this game? :grin: I don't play nearly as much as I used to but every now and again I can't help seeing and noticing grids all over the place.
I could never get those finished...
Quote from: Arturo on August 21, 2017, 05:16:40 PM
I could never get those finished...
Blasphemy! :o
;)
It's not my fault they are impossible.
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The problem of course, is when you make a mistake and only find out when you've almost completed the puzzle. To say that that is "frustrating" is an understatement.
Done thousands. Even created excel sheets to solve them. Also do the hexadecimal version, 0 to A rather than 0 to 9.
Quote from: Tank on August 21, 2017, 07:30:17 PM
...Even created excel sheets to solve them...
Ok, you took it to a whole other level, Tank. :grin:
I'll stick to grid puzzles involving letters/words, thanks. Apart from simple grids, just to pass away time in waiting rooms, sudoku leaves me cold!
did sudoku for a while, then got hooked on the number/pictogram style puzzles instead.
Love it. I get up, and get the paper, read it and then do the Sudoku puzzle...then the Jumble. It's almost to the point where nothing else is going to get done unless I do those first. I did consider using Excel (well, the Oracle open office version) to set up a solver, but got lazy and didn't ever do it.
I have this game on my Nook, and used to play it tons to the point it was disrupting my reading, but haven't played in a while (Same with chess).
I go in spats were I can't put something down to total boredom with games.
By the way I think using an "Excel sheet" = "Cheating",...but hey, I now know never to play poker with Tank ::)
Quote from: Father Bruno on August 23, 2017, 05:30:17 PM
I have this game on my Nook, and used to play it tons to the point it was disrupting my reading, but haven't played in a while (Same with chess).
I go in spats were I can't put something down to total boredom with games.
By the way I think using an "Excel sheet" = "Cheating",...but hey, I now know never to play poker with Tank ::)
It would be only for verification purposes...I don't cheat, even when the opportunity presented itself in uni.
I only cheated once in middle school, but that was because there was so much at stake. As for whether I regret it, I have mixed feelings. :-\
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on August 23, 2017, 11:46:27 PM
I only cheated once in middle school, but that was because there was so much at stake. As for whether I regret it, I have mixed feelings. :-\
I hope you aren't still kicking yourself for it. We all slip up, once in awhile. I'd say that that may have been a real learning experience that helped to shape you into a better person. I like to think that not being perfect (though I sure as hell try, I never make it there) helps with understanding the human condition in other people.
Quote from: Fireball on August 23, 2017, 11:57:49 PM
I hope you aren't still kicking yourself for it. We all slip up, once in awhile. I'd say that that may have been a real learning experience that helped to shape you into a better person. I like to think that not being perfect (though I sure as hell try, I never make it there) helps with understanding the human condition in other people.
Every now and then I do remember and feel bad about it. It's a story I would probably tell the young 'uns many years from now. :grin: Though I don't want to be deemed a bad influence. :P
I was able to get my hands on the maths final beforehand, took it home and got my parents to help me solve what they thought was just some homework. I memorised the steps and the answers to the questions. During the final, all I had to do was write down what I had stored in my head, but careful not to get a perfect score because that would be highly suspicious. :notes: I remember how
scared I felt that my parents would find out. I also feel ashamed because my parents saw me as a serious student who would never get into any school-related trouble.
Nobody knows about this but who ever reads this. :unsure: I feel so exposed now. :couchhide:
I busted chemistry at Uni because I was dumb enough to forego cheating.
The lecture series prof issued homework in every session. Said homework was to be graded. Every frat and sorority on or off campus had a file full of ponies. Ponies are the answers to quiz and homework problems. My chem prof had not changed the damned questions in years. Everybody but my second cousin twice removed had a chem lecture pony. It was common knowledge even to the lazy ass prof.
All grading at U of F at the time was done on the curve. Serious stuff competing for grades. I butted heads with the prof because I knew and he knew that cheating was the norm, not the exception. In my infinite wisdom I told him that I would not turn in my homework, because I did not have nor want the cheat sheets. I wanted to learn the necessary principles of chemistry not merely earn a grade. The Prof simply told me "your call". In the final exam I set the curve. The prof gave me an F for the course because I did not turn in my fucking homework. Never mind that I got the best grade of all 240 students who took the final. That final did not have ponies all over campus.
For you students out there....maybe you should not be so naive in a similar circumstance. Cheat if you must. With today's prices at prestigious universities, maybe $350 per credit hour, the chem course, a four credit hour course, costs $1400. That is a lot for your daddy to pay just because you had enough dignity and breeding to reject cheat sheets in favor of actually learning the subject matter. I am not implying that I had superior breeding. I was going to school by virtue of the GI bill and I was much older than most of the students. I had a somewhat different attitude than the less experienced and much younger students. I suspect that I might have used the cheat sheets had I been 19 years old like so many of them. Hell, I am pretty sure that i would have.
Yeah, I know professors who apply the same tests semester after semester...there are even secret Facebook groups where people trade images of previous (and future) quizzes.
If a prof's reputation partly relies on how many students he/she graduates it can be in his/her interest to ignore cheating. The "system" will also probably ignore it because it is also in the school/college's interest to graduate lots of people.
Of course, this degrades the value of qualifications because employees know it happens. There has been much arguement here regarding reducing standards in school leaving exams - another facet of "false success" to promote an image.
Somehow we went from little number games to the concept of cheating for which I expounded upon so vociferously. My apologies for derailing the thread.......Back to Sudoku?
I am a fun math guy who enjoys fiddling with numbers and things. Even so, I never could, or did, get into the Sudoku craze. I reckon that the Sudoku exercise is mind expanding and worth the mental effort for those gazillions of players.
Quote from: Icarus on August 25, 2017, 12:38:02 AM
Somehow we went from little number games to the concept of cheating for which I expounded upon so vociferously. My apologies for derailing the thread.......Back to Sudoku?
I am a fun math guy who enjoys fiddling with numbers and things. Even so, I never could, or did, get into the Sudoku craze. I reckon that the Sudoku exercise is mind expanding and worth the mental effort for those gazillions of players.
I think I was the one who really sent this thread off the rails, but that's the nature of conversations. Especially conversations with me. :P
Anyway, back to sudoku...I think it helps improve my focus overall. At least, that's what I felt when I would obsess over that puzzle game.