JoergWausW Daily subscriber Has not played this puzzle yet
I just solved an older big one of these again. I like those. Today, first I wondered about the low number of this puzzle. But when it popped up to be 6x6, it became clear why. The "-6" indicator was somehow missing. I appreciate the size hints in the puzzle names for smaller ones, just because I usually start the current puzzle from the main page. Now I and wanted to ask why Calcudokus are the only Sudoku-variant where the size is never mentioned in the title... (but this is off-topic here)
Posted 7th May 2015 at 16:06
Elisabeth Daily subscriber Has not played this puzzle yet
The size is given in the first column, JoergWausW, for all the puzzles, at least it is on my laptop!!
Posted 7th May 2015 at 16:56
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has not played this puzzle yet
The size is indeed shown before you open the puzzle. As to why it does or doesn't appear in the title too, it depends on whether I consider that the size is a key part of the puzzle or not. With Sudoku, you wouldn't expect a mix of sizes in a book (you'd expect all 9x9 unless otherwise said) and so I add the size to the title to make it clear it isn't a standard size. With Calcudoku, you do expect a range of sizes so I don't include the size in the puzzle title.
Hope that makes sense - it's not entirely arbitrary, but it's also not of any great significance. :)
Posted 7th May 2015 at 18:12
JoergWausW Daily subscriber Has not played this puzzle yet
Sorry that I have to disagree. I enter this site using the main URL puzzlemix.com. There is a 12 item list "click to play the latest free puzzles"... under the list it says "or Show all puzzles". When I click the latest free puzzle like "Non-consecutive Sudoku 68" today, the puzzle opens directly and I can see its size, but not before I open it (there is the name and the publish date). I would see it, when I click "Show all puzzles" first (then you are on the page menu.php, where the complete list is), but I usually don't take that 'detour'. I'm not a daily-subscriber, so I don't have many choices to pick from - and that's probably my issue.
As far as I followed it, all size-6 puzzles (the only exception: Calcudoku) always had -6 in their name, like -8, -10, -12, -16. I was just surprised, that today's puzzle didn't. With Calcudoku I expect a range of sizes like skyscrapers, futoshikis etc... and that's where my question comes from - these puzzles tell their sizes. For me, Calcudoku is a Sudoku-Killer-like puzzle, so personally I expect 9x9 when nothing is stated. Another argument for my position: in your sets Calcudokus come in only one size per set, unlike Kaikuro (here I agree to expect different sizes).
I just mentioned it, because today's naming seemed like a break in logic, and that led to the other question. But maybe this point of view is just me and my private systematc of the puzzle universe :-). And I agree: the significance of all this is pretty low.
Posted 14th May 2015 at 00:03
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has not played this puzzle yet
Fair point - I hadn't thought about the front page. You're absolutely right - you can't see what size it is until you open it from there.
Calcudoku is probably best-known as 'Ken Ken', and those puzzles appear at a range of sizes in newspapers and elsewhere, probably most usually 6x6. It's extremely unusual to see them at 9x9 size, but I entirely take your point.
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Hope that makes sense - it's not entirely arbitrary, but it's also not of any great significance. :)
As far as I followed it, all size-6 puzzles (the only exception: Calcudoku) always had -6 in their name, like -8, -10, -12, -16. I was just surprised, that today's puzzle didn't. With Calcudoku I expect a range of sizes like skyscrapers, futoshikis etc... and that's where my question comes from - these puzzles tell their sizes. For me, Calcudoku is a Sudoku-Killer-like puzzle, so personally I expect 9x9 when nothing is stated. Another argument for my position: in your sets Calcudokus come in only one size per set, unlike Kaikuro (here I agree to expect different sizes).
I just mentioned it, because today's naming seemed like a break in logic, and that led to the other question. But maybe this point of view is just me and my private systematc of the puzzle universe :-). And I agree: the significance of all this is pretty low.
Calcudoku is probably best-known as 'Ken Ken', and those puzzles appear at a range of sizes in newspapers and elsewhere, probably most usually 6x6. It's extremely unusual to see them at 9x9 size, but I entirely take your point.
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