it's nothing like that, they're genuinely just that fast. A lot of it is muscle memory. I have also questioned these times for as long as I've been playing (years, but my times were so slow and I was so bad I never bothered with an account until now lol) but this year I've suddenly had an increase in my times as I remember more rules/inferences and can figure things out much faster/ on auto pilot. It's literally just practice.
116 seconds for a logic 4x5 logic puzzle?? HOW???
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I play slowly. I don't mark any square until I know it is correct.
There are many key situations where I have two or three options. I know it would be much quicker to:
-guess and mark a square
-remember that square's position
-continue solving until I hit a contradiction
-click undo until the guess is unmarked
-repeat for another option
Like a maze where you keep testing dead-ends til you find the right path. I don't find it very satisfying, though.
Sure, there are situations that may require a series of guesses, and it may grow confusing to keep track of your "undo" state. But I find that in most puzzles I hit one big snarl and once that is solved everything falls into place. Anyway, maybe the resident wizards are masters of the undo button.Comment
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I do something kind of similar -- sometimes I'll play the puzzles as a gauge to tell me WHEN my brain is too tired to keep going and I need to sleep. When I'm staring blearily at a smallish Easy/Moderate puzzle with no clue what the next step is, it means it's past Ellie's bedtime XDComment
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