Monthly Archives: February 2015

Alary at His Stingiest

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Sudent

This post details the solving of the Antoine Alary review puzzle More Extreme 104, featuring a laborious line marking leading to a sea of candidates. Then the day is saved by Antoine’s escape hatch, maintaining a reasonably advanced level of … Continue reading →

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A Little More Extreme

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Sudent

Here is a follow up on the advanced level More Extreme 4, with background looks at the bv map, XYZ map, and X-panel . There is a challenge to find a forcing chain XYZ alongside a regular one. Entering the … Continue reading →

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More Extreme?

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Sudent

Here we begin a review of the second collection of Antoine Alary’s Extreme series, with general comments, a review table, and a checkpoint on the Sysudoku solving on More Extreme 64, a puzzle that is typical of the “generous” variety … Continue reading →

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Guide 775 Concluded

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Sudent

Here we continue with Gordon Guide 775, going through Sysudoku advanced methods, but trying particularly to invoke those brought up in the Guide. Last week, we found a regular XYZ-wing, a 231-wing to be exact, generating 11 new clues and … Continue reading →

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