IronSudoku Javascript Bookmarketlets
We’ve covered IronSudoku here at Brittlefish and spent some time with autofill scripts to automate the tedious task of filling in green and red notional numbers. We got them to work in IE6 after some Javascript wrangling.
Bookmarklets
Bookmarklets are link buttons you add to your browser where the URL is some Javascript code. So …

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Finally. An IE6 and Firefox IronSudoku autofill script.
After wondering for some time why on earth the IronSudoku autofill scripts would not run under Internet Explorer 6, but were fine in Firefox and IE7, the cause and a solution present themselves at long last.
IE6 Limits
The problem is that IE6 limits the length of bookmarklets to 508 …

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NOTE: The IronSudoku Javascript works in the Firefox web browser and IE7.

IronSudoku is a great sudoku site based on Javascript and DHTML. It’s a lot of fun and allows you to “pencil in” little numbers that are possible for a box, usually green for possibles and red for impossibles. Left-click a box and a little grid pops up with “1″ through “9″ for you to choose your answer for that box or hold down shift and click the number to get a green penciled-in number, or alt click to get the red variant.

Enter User Javascript

Javascript is a scripting language that has been a part of web browsers for years and is only getting more popular. Most modern websites make use of at least some Javascript. An interesting side effect of deep browser support is that they will run a Javascript script from the address bar, given that it is preceded with the keyword “javascript:”. It will execute the script commands immediately. Given a script, you can simply copy it to the clipboard and then paste it into your browser’s address field.

It so happens that a Javascript has been floating around to auto-fill the greens in IronSudoku. A tuned version is below. You can simply copy the following script to the clipboard by selecting it with your mouse, pressing Control-C on Windows systems or Command-C on Macs. Then with IronSudoku open in another window or tab of your browser, clear the address bar (where it says http://www.ironsudoku.com) and press Control-V (or Command-V on Macs) to paste the script. Then hit Enter/Return.

Click “Continue Reading” to read more and get the scripts.

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Word Sandwich is a free online Flash game, the goal of which is to guess a five letter word. It tells you if your guess is alphabetically above or below the word (hence, the sandwich). You get more points for guessing in fewer tries, with a multiplier thrown in for how quick you come up …

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Mom’s Minivan has several printable games for trips, including Roadside Bingo and Car Bingo, Lines and Dots, Tic Tac Toe, Travel Scavenger Hunts, and the License Plate Game. These traditional travel games are not an in-car videogame console complete with LCD monitor, but can be just as much fun and a whole lot less expensive.
Other …

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On has released Grow Ver 1 in his popular series. Very simple but lovely and almost hypnotic. Be sure to watch for a while after solving it. As always, On’s work is amazing.
Also check out Grow Ver 2 and Ver 3 and the Grow RPG and Grow Cube.

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Lots of Puzzles
There are 24 puzzles that range from a sliding tile game called Fifteen and a Color-the-Map game, to Dominoes, Solo (basically Sudoku), Mine Sweeper, Untangle, and others. You can download them …

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The recent Sudoku craze began in late 2004 when Wayne Gould convinced The Times of London to take a chance on a puzzle that had been invented (anonymously) by Howard Garns in 1979 and published by Dell magazines as Number Place. Gould, a retired judge and computer programmer, had written software for the game. His …

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