25.06.2020, 09:35
I am one who joined recently with the "Hey, I'd like to try making a Sudoku" mentality and no idea of the more temperate pace of uploads the site used to have. I have posted ten puzzles in about 9 weeks. And last week I discovered the statistics page - there certainly HAS been a jump in profiles and published puzzles!
One random thought that comes to mind: Is there any site or such that caters to ... I don't know, "previewing" puzzles? Throwing it out to a group of profiles that try it out and give responses - which would then give me and other experimenters an idea of what grabs interest and doesn't? Like ... my first Sudoku creation is one that very much appeals to me (I made it after all, ha ha) and my longtime enjoyment of the classic "Logic Puzzle" where you have 12 clues and have to figure out who went shopping on what day and what they bought - BUT ... I learned quickly that it was not what the really dedicated Sudoku solvers were looking for. They like a nice simple (albeit hidden/tricky) methodology, something more "elegant".
So I'm wondering if there is a site/portal that functions almost like a curator process, so I could learn which of my offbeat ideas will gain an audience ("Battlefield") and which ones will get mostly passed over ("Virus Sudoku"). Or if that is a non-starter idea.
One random thought that comes to mind: Is there any site or such that caters to ... I don't know, "previewing" puzzles? Throwing it out to a group of profiles that try it out and give responses - which would then give me and other experimenters an idea of what grabs interest and doesn't? Like ... my first Sudoku creation is one that very much appeals to me (I made it after all, ha ha) and my longtime enjoyment of the classic "Logic Puzzle" where you have 12 clues and have to figure out who went shopping on what day and what they bought - BUT ... I learned quickly that it was not what the really dedicated Sudoku solvers were looking for. They like a nice simple (albeit hidden/tricky) methodology, something more "elegant".
So I'm wondering if there is a site/portal that functions almost like a curator process, so I could learn which of my offbeat ideas will gain an audience ("Battlefield") and which ones will get mostly passed over ("Virus Sudoku"). Or if that is a non-starter idea.