Something Changed and it’s Just Not as Good Anymore
What has happened to the Expert Level points and scoring? What did you change? I have been playing at Expert level for some time. I have started 888 games of which I have won 569 - 240 without mistakes. My best time is 16’40” and my average time is 43’18”. When I first started playing, the maximum score I could achieve (which I did repeatedly) was 86,400. Then you changed something and the highest score I could achieve (which I also did repeatedly) was 82,440. Something else has changed in the last few days and now the highest score I can get is around 32,000!! What have you changed and why have you done so? Also, up until a few days ago, the Expert level had an unlimited “Undo” buffer. Now, with the recent changes, I can’t go back more than about 20 moves. The smaller “Undo” buffer makes it impossible to trial combinations in the more difficult games, and so makes it much harder to win by using deductive elimination. Instead, one has to guess (and likely start over if wrong) on the more difficult games - which introduces a large amount of luck, which I believe is simply not in the spirit of the design of the puzzle! These recent changes have materially reduced the fun and challenge in what was, in my opinion, the best version of Killer Sudoku.
