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Monthly Archives: July 2018
Early Coloring on funster Extreme 32
This post tries for a quick victory on Funx 32 with coloring, without the usual bv scan and X-panel preliminaries. That appears to flop, until three remote pair chains are connected into a long XY chain to wrap two clusters. … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving, Puzzle Reviews
Tagged Charles Timmerman, coloring, Funster Extreme Sudoku, XY wraps
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Funster Extreme 18 Stays in the Lines
After a brutal encounter with the bypass, what’s left of funx 18 is riddled with bv. A cluster covering half the grid expands with a trap to wrap a color and finish the puzzle. The post concludes with an update on … Continue reading
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Tagged 3-fill, box/line, coloring trap, Funster Extreme Sudoku
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Funster Extreme 4 has a Near BUG
The review of the Extreme section of Charles Timmerman’s Funster Hard to Extreme Sudoku is underway, with Funster Extreme 4. Funx 4 has a near BUG, but it gets to the doctor early and takes Dr. Stuart’s medicine dutifully. An … Continue reading
A Guide Update and a Funster Kick Off
The threat of a “The World’s Hardest Sudoku” now relieved, this post starts a review of the “extreme” section of Charles Timmermans Funster Hard to Extreme Sudoku. But mostly, it’s a progress report on the Guide, a set of pages … Continue reading
Painting a World’s Hardest BARN
This post ends the review of World’s Hardest Sudoku Book with its Very Hard 134. The puzzle is not all that hard, but does allow solution in a very pleasing way, for me, at least. Right after a basic with … Continue reading