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Comment #686

2019-05-06T03:27:17Z

Commenting only on the safe issue for the moment :) I'll say that the CoinDoku was entertaining and educational. But I did spend 'way too much time after I found two solutions to the same puzzle and couldn't figure out why one was considered right and the other wrong. After a fair amount of cross-eyed work, I submit the problem to my readers, since I'm more than willing to admit I can miss the obvious staring me in the face.

Solution 1 ("wrong")

Solution 2 ("right")

Comment #685

2007-08-21T00:59:27Z

I am probably too busy (I am waiting for a machine to install all of the Windows Updates at the moment) to check out the game, but I did want to make one comment about supplanting lots of bills with coins.

That would be extremely annoying for me. Are there any other arguments of why we should go to coins other than the length of time that a bill lasts argument and that we waste a bunch of money replacing paper dollars, and I guess I should care about the government wasting that money, though I suspect that they waste enough money in other ways to make the paper dollar money waste not even make a difference.

Coins take up way more room in my pocket than a bill, so I never carry coins. If we switched to

Comment #684

2007-08-14T21:52:44Z

Thanks for validating my solution. I was going a bit bug-eyed. And yes, it was supposed to be the "easy" version. It differs from my "right" solution by six coins, three pairs of two. That's how I found both solutions -- I couldn't find a way to narrow the choices for those slots further.

I don't know any easier way to check, but then I don't know much about Sudoku puzzles. Possibly Jon will know something -- see his Sudoku post.

Based on two data points, I could postulate that the first-chosen of equally-correct solutions is deemed "right." Or that we both got lucky.

Comment #683

2007-08-14T19:37:11Z

Odd. Your "wrong" solution differs from the solution I chose - significantly so. (Perhaps yours wasn't the "easy" one.) But it is correct. Checking all nine different coins for correct placement made me think that certainly I checked more than necessary. There must be an algorithm to minimize checking steps!

Comment #682

2007-08-14T19:24:40Z

Yes, I used the internet. In Switzerland.

Yes, the "easy" CoinDoku I did frustrated me by ending in a situation where there were multiple equally valid choices. I must have gotten lucky, because the one I randomly picked was "correct."

Comment #681

2007-08-14T18:30:47Z

Hooray for the First Nephews! Did they see an actual coin?

Comment #680

2007-08-14T18:27:40Z

P.S. I was impressed that you managed to find a U.S. dollar coin in Switzerland (or Japan, or Korea, or wherever you are now). They're hard enough to obtain here -- never in change, and even the banks can't be counted on to have any.

Then I realized you probably used that ubiquitous modern substitute for material reality, the Internet.

Comment #679

2007-08-14T18:05:20Z

Both of these nephews found the words, but they will let one of their cousins have the money.

Comment #678

2007-08-14T16:49:36Z

In my (successful) search for the location of the motto I also found this time-killer: CoinDoku

The one I played wasn't that great, but it will familiarize you with all the wigs and eagles on dollar coins.

Comment #677

2007-08-14T16:17:09Z

Regardless of the facts, the e-mail begs the question whether "In God We Trust" belongs on our money. I think it's a lie and ought to go. Nations generally trust their horses and chariots or their gold.

Comment #676

2007-08-14T13:52:42Z

I busted up laughing at "If you do find one of the new coins WITHOUT the motto, please send it to me." You should send that request to everyone on your friend's email list . . .