[extropy-chat] RE: TOP 2 IQ Percentile

[Acy Stapp]

Alright. I'm using the puzzles from http://www.sudoku.com.au/ since
they have a good-sized free archive. I'm just starting with today's
and working backward. Anyone else? Todays puzzle I solved in 23
minutes and discovered a few tricks. I also found that there are
multiple answers to some puzzles, at least today's front page easy
one.

Acy

On 11/23/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> OK do 50.  Keep track of the solve times.  spike
> On 11/22/05, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> ...
>  So we each do exactly 50 sudokus, then time ourselves on an identical
> sudoku
>  to see who learned the most tricks doing the first 50.  Then we are
> actually
>  measuring something that is more towards IQ than how good we already are at
>  puzzles; we measure how fast we learn a new puzzle.  It's a puzzle-learning
>  contest as opposed to just a puzzle contest.  I expect the younger among us
>  will get faster quicker.  But will they end up faster than the veteran
>  puzzle prole?
>
>  Who is in?
>
>  spike
>
>