Monthly Archives: December 2015

Hodoku ALS-XZ

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Sudent

For your after Christmas Sudoku fix, this post is about Hodoku’s ALS-XZ, a label favored by most writers. I prefer the term ALS toxic sets, associating the method with others by the goal of identifying a set of candidates guaranteed … Continue reading →

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Hodoku Franken Fish

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Sudent

This post proposes a spotting technique for Franken Fish, based on the Hodoku’s Mutant Jellyfish example cited earlier in this review. It also shows how Sysudoku fish analysis techniques apply to Franken fish. Finally it reports how pattern analysis surpasses … Continue reading →

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Hodoku’s Multiple Fin Krakens

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Sudent

This post finds multiple fin kraken swordfish, with additional removals, where Hodoku overlooks kraken analysis. This prompts an examination of the Hodoku kraken fish examples in its Last Resorts section, which offer no guidance for human solving. The homework was … Continue reading →

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Kraken Fish Invade Hodoku’s Pond

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Sudent

This post starts with a homework checkpoint on single fin kraken analysis, via the blank line tally and suset scratchpad. The homework demonstrates an essential technique for finned fish that is missing from Hodoku. Then these sysudokie techniques find additional … Continue reading →

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Hodoku Goes Fishing

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Sudent

This post reviews Sysudoku techniques and tools for regular and finned fish, using them to enumerate the finned fish in a Hodoku Franken fish (boxes and lines) example. The introductory Hodoku Fish page describes the highly theoretical approach coded into … Continue reading →

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