Monthly Archives: January 2018

Coloring Bails Out Basic on III-34


In this last post of Moito’s Sudoku Road to Mastery, Basic drives the 0.91 rated III-34  into a near BUG blind alley with a flurry of subsets and boxlines, then hands off to coloring for a quick score. A tight … Continue reading

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Coloring Dominates Very Hard III-15


The review of Moito’s Road to Mastery Sudoku continues with another example of early coloring and its cooperative interactions with the X-panel. The advanced path is similar to that of Very Hard I-35 two posts back, but this time coloring … Continue reading

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How Not to Find a Multiple on Moito’s Road


After a jaw dropping irregular XYZ-wing, a marking mistake reveals an unavoidable UR and two solutions of Very Hard IV-6, then the correction leads to an even more remarkable, but no less unavoidable uniqueness violation. Coloring reveals the logical path … Continue reading

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Moito’s I-4 Inspires a Trace Refinement


This post introduces an improved trace convention for 3-fills, in response to a complex of 3-fills in the bypass solution of Very Hard I-4 from Moito’s Sudoku Road to Mastery, the puzzle Moito rates as highest possible difficulty. The bypass … Continue reading

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Moito’s Road to Sudoku Mastery


My first Sysudoku review of 2018 is one of a host of new collection books with the same grid format, some with an unexplained rating system, some with listed authors A.D. Ardson and Rebecca Bean. Moito and Bean’s  Extremely Hard … Continue reading

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