Monthly Archives: November 2016

Fishing in Lake Supersymmetry


This post reveals that the symmetries and supersymmetries of THLS, as applied to subsets and fish, are identical to a Sysudoku tool that reduces these Sudoku entities to numerical input for a well-known algorithm.  This shows conclusively that maintaining extra … Continue reading

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Hidden Logic Box/Line Interactions


This post looks at the brief and very late THLS treatment of box/line interactions in rc space. I say late, because box/lines (1/31/12) are essential in basic marking of candidates. But in The Hidden Logic of Sudoku,  box/lines are introduced … Continue reading

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Hidden Candidates of Hidden Logic


This post calls out the useless reporting scheme in place throughout The Hidden Logic of Sudoku, with a checkpointed hidden triple example that sysudokies have solved as homework. The Akron Tournament final checkpoint is at the end of this report. … Continue reading

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Hidden Logic Symmetries of THLS


This post explains SudoRules’ complementary grid transformations that, as The Hidden Logic of Sudoku demonstrates in many Royle 17 examples,  converts hidden line subsets into naked line subsets, and box subsets into line subsets. Of possibly more interest to sysudokies, … Continue reading

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Naked Singles in SudoRules


This post reveals how naked singles are produced, in Berthier’s rule hierarchy of increasing logical complexity,  by single rule that is a member of the set of rules for every resolution method. This explains why number scanning candidates, and maintaining … Continue reading

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