Monthly Archives: July 2018

Early Coloring on funster Extreme 32

Posted on July 31, 2018 by

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 →

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Funster Extreme 18 Stays in the Lines

Posted on July 24, 2018 by

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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Funster Extreme 4 has a Near BUG

Posted on July 17, 2018 by

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 →

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A Guide Update and a Funster Kick Off

Posted on July 10, 2018 by

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 →

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Painting a World’s Hardest BARN

Posted on July 3, 2018 by

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 →

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