sudoko puzzle cache

[+slowfox]

Does anyone know a simple way of getting a sudoko grid into a cache description? I've got the grid in word but it won't copy!!

Thanks

[+u1bd2005]

if you make it as an image and upload it to a site such as tinypic etc.... then use html to add it to the description as such, should do the trick.

 

<img src="www.tinypic.com/image.png">

Edited July 25, 2011 by u1bd2005

[+lamoracke]

realize that almost every single Sudoku puzzle can be solved online through a solver program. Personally I use them if its a 16x16 grid, those just take too long. The 9x9 ones I like to do.

[+Bear and Ragged]

if you make it as an image and upload it to a site such as tinypic etc.... then use html to add it to the description as such, should do the trick.

 

<img src="www.tinypic.com/image.png">

Make an image, load it to the cache page!

Then use HTML to add the image in to the description.

[+ShowStop]

If you are good with HTML, you could make your own sudoku grid with HTML code. However I'm assuming that isn't the case.

[+slowfox]

If you are good with HTML, you could make your own sudoku grid with HTML code. However I'm assuming that isn't the case.

You're right, I'm not, but thanks anyway!

[+slowfox]

Thanks 4 all the advice but what I think I'm going to do is put out a 2 stage cache, the 1st being a trad cache containing the sudoko grids which will lead to a bonus cache thus reducing the number of cachers using t'internet to solve the sudoko.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Thanks 4 all the advice but what I think I'm going to do is put out a 2 stage cache, the 1st being a trad cache containing the sudoko grids which will lead to a bonus cache thus reducing the number of cachers using t'internet to solve the sudoko.

 

That would certainly reduce the number of cachers using the internet to solve the sudoku, but it will also likely reduce the number of overall finds. I typically don't care for caches which require me to spend a lot of time solving a puzzle in the field. The amount of time I have available to get out of the house and go geocaching is very limited, whereas I have lots of time in the evenings when I am at home with my family that I can spend solving puzzles. When I *do* get the opportunity to get out to go geocaching I want to spend that time actually looking for and hopefully finding geocaches rather than solving puzzles. It would be a good idea to include something in the listing of your multi (if it involves two stages it must be listed as a multi or mystery cache) indicating that it will require solving a puzzle which might take 2-20 minutes to solve (depending on the difficulty of your sudoku and ones sudoku solving skills).

[Mr.Yuck]

Thanks 4 all the advice but what I think I'm going to do is put out a 2 stage cache, the 1st being a trad cache containing the sudoko grids which will lead to a bonus cache thus reducing the number of cachers using t'internet to solve the sudoko.

 

That would certainly reduce the number of cachers using the internet to solve the sudoku, but it will also likely reduce the number of overall finds. I typically don't care for caches which require me to spend a lot of time solving a puzzle in the field. The amount of time I have available to get out of the house and go geocaching is very limited, whereas I have lots of time in the evenings when I am at home with my family that I can spend solving puzzles. When I *do* get the opportunity to get out to go geocaching I want to spend that time actually looking for and hopefully finding geocaches rather than solving puzzles. It would be a good idea to include something in the listing of your multi (if it involves two stages it must be listed as a multi or mystery cache) indicating that it will require solving a puzzle which might take 2-20 minutes to solve (depending on the difficulty of your sudoku and ones sudoku solving skills).

 

I'll plus one this, not very many people are going to want to solve a puzzle in the field. You could surely ease their frustration a little by making it very clear on the cache page there's a Sudoku to solve.

 

Very true though, it's super, super easy to find a Sudoku solver on the web. I'll admit to using one for what I think is the only true Sudoku cache I've found. There was another one, but it was a 6 x 6, which only took a few minutes.

 

Edit: By the way, I just looked, and Google auto completes "Sudoku Solver" before you even finish typing it.

Edited July 30, 2011 by Mr.Yuck

[+dfx]

Sometimes, you don't even need web access to solve a sudoku

 

[Mr.Yuck]

Sometimes, you don't even need web access to solve a sudoku

 

 

Well, it would take care of that sudoku puzzle in the field thing too, wouldn't it?

[+Prime Suspect]

Both the (free) Sudoku games on my phone have solvers built into them. And Sudoku caches are so 2007.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Both the (free) Sudoku games on my phone have solvers built into them. And Sudoku caches are so 2007.

 

I have seen some pretty interesting variations though. The cleverest one I've seen was in Barcelona. First, you had to solve a 9x9 sudoku puzzle to get a grid of numbers. Then you were given set of four street names that bounded an area in the city. Because the city streets are layed out in a perpendicular grid as well, the sudoko puzzle could be overlayed over the city streets such that many of the buildings, small parks, or notable features corresponded to a number on the sudoku puzzle.

 

Then you were give a list of features which were associated with each of the digits in a set of coordinates. Using a city street map you could look up each of the features on the map, find the corresponding digit on the sudoku puzzle and plug that number into the coordinates.

 

The cool thing about it was that, other than how to solve the sudoku puzzle, everything was spelled out in the cache description about how to map the numbers. If it hadn't, I wouldn't have described it here.

[AZcachemeister]

Two FREE soduko solvers available for ANDROID.

I believe most puzzle aficionados consider soduko puzzles to be the LPC of the puzzle world.