Monthly Archives: November 2015

Hodoku Grouped AIC II

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Sudent

This post continues with two more Hodoku examples, which illustrate how a human solver finds grouped AIC. As usual, Hobinger attributes them to making just the right premise at just the right place. In the Hodoku Grouped AIC section, the … Continue reading →

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Hodoku Grouped AIC I

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Sudent

This post uses two grouped AIC ANL from Hodoku to illustrate how such chains are inspired and constructed. After the first, readers are challenged to try this approach on the following examples, with checkpoint to follow. I was prepared to … Continue reading →

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Hodoku’s Continuous Nice Loops

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Sudent

This post considers the terminology of nice loops prevalent when Hodoku was put up. It also demonstrates nice loop coloring, an important reason to reject another Hodoku assertion. And it also transcribes two Hodoku nice loop examples for better access … Continue reading →

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Simplifying Hodoku AIC

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Sudent

This post examines the AIC examples from the Discontinuous Nice Loop section of Hodoku Chain and Loop techniques page. Hodoku claims to demonstrate a new type of elimination technique based on AIC loops, called AIC Discontinuous Type 2. AIC ANL … Continue reading →

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