Arby: It's interesting how I'm almost 1 dan on this site but still below 25 kyu on OGS. I'm very pleased with myself for getting this. I've been noticing that A18 and in general the 1-2 point is a nucleation point for a lot of potential eyes, and it's hard for all of the potential eyes to be fully eliminated. It was hard, but the puzzle set gave you all of the necessary ideas beforehand to figure it out completely. As an educational test, I think it does a great job.
cls: Just to give my take on this controverisal puzzle, im a beginner but many of the puzzles in this collection are very easy for me. This puzzle actually challenges me (thereby forcing me to learn) and it also seems like a common shape, I appreciate it being here.
Ivan Detkov: It is also showing you a power of a certain point in the corner. It is the key of many more life and death problems.
Holonium: Could you please stop putting 3 kyu problems into collections you call "Easy Life"? This is a beginner collection, not a kyu level collection for the most part.
caranthir: There are qualitative differences between Easy Capture, Easy Kill and Easy Life. I think Easy Capture is the foremost total beginner starter collection. Others are more difficult than Easy Capture. All in all, the adjective "easy" is proportional to the average difficulty of all problems on this site. Don't worry if you don't get all of these immediately. They will begin to feel easier sooner than you probably think.
[deleted user]: I see that the sequence B19C18D18A18A17B18 is given in the comments and presented as incorrect, but doesn't it give seki and therefore life ?
mystyc: This problem is awful.
It's too difficult for this collection. The solution is 7 moves long with many incorrect branches of similar length.
If I hadn't cheated by opening this problem in an incognito window, I would have lost all my hearts several times over.
Problems like this make this site frustrating sometimes. The only way to play here is to skip any problems that I can't figure out in one attempt.
PillAchill: Oh mein Gott.. Geschafft. Hat mich 3 Tage gekostet. Wow.. Tolles Rätsel. Wie kommt eigentlich die Stärkenangabe (2d/ 27,8%) zustande? Irgendwie aus den korrekten Erstlösungsversuchen?
d4rkm4tter: Jo.. die genaue Formel ist streng geheim aber es wird aus den solved/failed versuchen aller User 1-2 mal im Monat errechnet.
countyoungblood: dunno if this is intentional but I just realized im losing hearts AFTER already failing the problem because i kept clicking to learn about why it was wrong. punishing for trying to learn yet allowing it seems kind of messed up.
d4rkm4tter: Yea sorry, the webmaster needs to fix that...
I am 9 dan on this site but...