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JuanKerr 26 Jun 2007 12:57:02 37,710 posts
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I'm STILL stuck on 5-fucking-2 of the 10x10s!

/ hires steamroller
/ runs over DS

[maven] 26 Jun 2007 13:00:35 5,799 posts
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Post the puzzle (either as picture or text), and I'll do it for you...

JuanKerr 26 Jun 2007 13:06:23 37,710 posts
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[maven] wrote:
Post the puzzle (either as picture or text), and I'll do it for you...

Cheers for the offer, but I always vow never to 'cheat' or let someone else help me when I'm stuck on a game!

However, if I still haven't completed 52 by this time next week, I might well ask for some assistance ;-)

gamingdave 26 Jun 2007 13:16:30 5,087 posts
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Haha, I told you that one was tough! IIRC its the top right that caused my the trouble at first, but then it was in the bottom left that I solved it.

Working through the level 3 grids (18x10), plowed through about 5 of them last night in bed, all in about 4 or 5 mins each. Great how much better you get at it.

JuanKerr 26 Jun 2007 14:41:34 37,710 posts
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gamingdave wrote:
Haha, I told you that one was tough! IIRC its the top right that caused my the trouble at first, but then it was in the bottom left that I solved it.

Working through the level 3 grids (18x10), plowed through about 5 of them last night in bed, all in about 4 or 5 mins each. Great how much better you get at it.

I keep getting stuck in the bottom left - there's a nasty little section which I've yet to solve.

What number is the first 18x10?

JuanKerr 28 Jun 2007 10:28:58 37,710 posts
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I finally did 52 last night! In the end, it did it in just over 7 minutes and didn't have any problems at all. I know where I was going wrong though and when I figured it out, I was UNBELIEVEABLY relieved.

Bit stuck on 62 now ...

JetSetWilly 28 Jun 2007 10:32:22 5,720 posts
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I did my first two 24x14 last night. Both took over 25 minutes. Talk about ramping up the difficulty. I've only just got my head round 18x10.

JuanKerr 28 Jun 2007 10:33:24 37,710 posts
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JetSetWilly wrote:
I did my first two 24x14 last night. Both took over 25 minutes. Talk about ramping up the difficulty. I've only just got my head round 18x10.

Blimey, sounds tricky.

I'm just coming to the final 15 or so 10x10s and I'm already starting to get a bit nervous about 18x10s ...

JetSetWilly 28 Jun 2007 10:35:01 5,720 posts
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I've found with each grid size increase that it starts off as quite a brick wall. Then about 15-20 puzzles I start to get used to it and just as I'm starting to flow at that level the grid increases again!

[maven] 28 Jun 2007 10:38:07 5,799 posts
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Talk to me about tricky, I'm currently on #10 from the hardest difficulty!
Now I know why they put the "Save game" option in there...

JetSet, for me it's exactly the opposite. I often have trouble with the last few puzzles of a given size as they seem more difficult, but then breeze through the first few larger ones, as they're usually a bit simpler and just larger...

Edited by [maven] at 10:39:17 28-06-2007

JuanKerr 28 Jun 2007 10:39:32 37,710 posts
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@JetSet

Yeah, I know what you mean - if I look back at the times for my old puzzles, they always start out really poorly and get gradually better (apart from the odd one which gets me stumped for no reason in particular!).

I'm really enjoying the 10x10s, shame there aren't many left!

Edited by JuanKerr at 10:40:01 28-06-2007

JuanKerr 28 Jun 2007 10:40:50 37,710 posts
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[maven] wrote:
Talk to me about tricky, I'm currently on #10 from the hardest difficulty!

Do you mean the last set of numbers or is there more than one difficulty level??

[maven] 28 Jun 2007 10:42:02 5,799 posts
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When you select "start game", the next screen consists of four difficulty levels, top one being easiest, bottom one being hardest. So there's four sets of puzzles...

JuanKerr 28 Jun 2007 10:47:43 37,710 posts
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[maven] wrote:
When you select "start game", the next screen consists of four difficulty levels, top one being easiest, bottom one being hardest. So there's four sets of puzzles...

Yeah, I know that - I thought you meant that there was four sets of puzzles for each difficulty level!

IMadeThis 28 Jun 2007 22:50:15 1,299 posts
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Yay. Got this thru today along with RE4 (Wii) & Kuru Kururin 2 (GBA). They're all fantastic & I don't know which to go with. I've completed the first 5 on this & seem to be settling in okay. Gonna take a bit of a mammoth effort to catch everyone on here tho.

JuanKerr 29 Jun 2007 10:04:48 37,710 posts
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IMadeThis wrote:
Yay. Got this thru today along with RE4 (Wii) & Kuru Kururin 2 (GBA). They're all fantastic & I don't know which to go with. I've completed the first 5 on this & seem to be settling in okay. Gonna take a bit of a mammoth effort to catch everyone on here tho.

It will take a mammoth effort, but believe me, it's worth it. I guarantee that at some point, you will feel like smashing your DS to tiny pieces and eating it and at other times, you'll want to legally marry it.

JetSetWilly 29 Jun 2007 10:09:44 5,720 posts
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JuanKerr wrote:
It will take a mammoth effort, but believe me, it's worth it. I guarantee that at some point, you will feel like smashing your DS to tiny pieces and eating it and at other times, you'll want to legally marry it.

It always re-assures me that other people have the exact same range of emotions with this game.

JuanKerr 29 Jun 2007 10:30:40 37,710 posts
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JetSetWilly wrote:

It always re-assures me that other people have the exact same range of emotions with this game.

Me too! Sometimes, I have to grit my teeth and simply turn my DS off before I do something I regret and other times, I actually clench my fist in celebration and say "get in!" or something to myself. My girlfriend can't understand how I get so emotional about a game when you have to draw lines around numbers ...

wellsie 29 Jun 2007 10:38:28 87 posts
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just ordered it, but untill it arrives I am playing this

http://www.vgreality.com/alphaex/flashloader.php?f=flash/slither_demo_v13c.swf&w=430&h=510&n=Slither%20Link

easy 5 is a pain and took me ages!

Edited by wellsie at 10:39:07 29-06-2007

Dizzy 29 Jun 2007 10:49:48 3,716 posts
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Damn my Slitherlink stopped working... dead.

Have to get a new one when I go to Japan later in the year. Grrr....

JuanKerr 29 Jun 2007 10:53:00 37,710 posts
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Dizzy wrote:
Damn my Slitherlink stopped working... dead.

Have to get a new one when I go to Japan later in the year. Grrr....

What? How can it stop working?

Der_tolle_Emil 30 Jun 2007 00:09:37 7,308 posts
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Dizzy wrote:
Damn my Slitherlink stopped working... dead.

Have to get a new one when I go to Japan later in the year. Grrr....

That's bad - no idea how you managed to do that.

About smashing the DS into little pieces: Thing is, Slitherlink makes me feel stupid and when I eventually hit a wall, I REALLY hit it. With other puzzle games I can remotely think of what I did wrong or need to do to solve it but here I'm just completely stuck. Especially because when something doesn't work in Slitherlink it's because I made a mistake. It's not because I just don't see something right away and have to start thinking again of what to do but it's frustrating because I know I really screwed up although it's so simple actually.

[maven] 30 Jun 2007 16:35:51 5,799 posts
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I just did my first 36x20 puzzle (in just shy of 40 minutes). Unfortunately, there is a problem with the puzzles of this size. After I laid out about half of the lines, the controls became a bit sluggish as the DS is struggling. This is mightily annoying, as I play with the pad and "double-click" with the buttons to mark an x, but I now have to consciously slow down my double-tapping the buttons, as it isn't registering the 2nd press in time.
Doesn't sound too bad, but is in fact infuriating...

IMadeThis 1 Jul 2007 07:33:14 1,299 posts
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JuanKerr wrote:

IMadeThis wrote:
Yay. Got this thru today along with RE4 (Wii) & Kuru Kururin 2 (GBA). They're all fantastic & I don't know which to go with. I've completed the first 5 on this & seem to be settling in okay. Gonna take a bit of a mammoth effort to catch everyone on here tho.

It will take a mammoth effort, but believe me, it's worth it. I guarantee that at some point, you will feel like smashing your DS to tiny pieces and eating it and at other times, you'll want to legally marry it.

Okay. Thoroughly enjoying it & flying through some of them first time. Completed one (the easy ones) in about 56 secs yesterday - v pleased with myself. DS battery died at a great point though. I was on my first 10x10 and thought I'd done it yet it wasn't completing. I started going back through it all changing bits here n there to try fitting it properly and getting highly frustrated. This is when it died saving me getting angry & violent

Otherwise, what are the stars for?

Deleted user 5 July 2007 15:55:20

Just found this free version that supports a hell of a lot of mobiles!

kerchinkg

JuanKerr 17 Jul 2007 09:09:03 37,710 posts
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Bump time.

How are people getting on? Still hooked? I thought the novelty would wear off, but I still play every night for at least 25 minutes. Now on the third difficulty level and coping surprisngly well with the 18X10s.

Fanstastic game.

Der_tolle_Emil 17 Jul 2007 09:34:04 7,308 posts
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I still play one or two puzzles before going to sleep. It's a bit frustrating though when I simply cannot get along. I have still some of the earler 10x10 puzzles which I try to solve nearly every day and I fail every time. On the other hand yesterday I finished a 10x10 puzzle I have never tried before in just under three minutes.

I still enjoy the game a lot it's just that the throwbacks when failing again and having no idea why start to get a bit on my nerves now. But then I can just go back to Picross DS until I fall asleep.

JuanKerr 17 Jul 2007 09:39:31 37,710 posts
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I got horribly stuck on a few 10x10s, but I got through them eventually. The solution is ALWAYS logical and you will kick yourself when you finally solve the troublesome little blighters.

The step up to 18x10s hasn't been too bad (so far). I actually like them more than the 10x10s because they are sooooo satisfying to solve.

The elation of that little pause, followed by 'completion' appearing on screen easily outweighs the blind rage caused by getting stuck on the same puzzle time and time again.

Genji 24 Jul 2007 14:19:41 19,682 posts
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So yeah. I just got this and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Guess which one has barely been touched yet?

:-(

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JuanKerr 26 Jul 2007 17:29:03 37,710 posts
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Thread bump time.

I'm still playing this pretty much everyday (along with More Brain Training). Well into the 18x10s now, and really don't think I can stop playing until I've completed every single puzzle. I've got a horrible feeling that once I've completed it, I'll just have go back and get full stars for each puzzle.

By the way, are there any other modes in the game?

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