Monthly Archives: January 2022

Hanabi Without Fireworks

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Sudent

This post reports the ultrahardcore solver solutions for shye’s fifth fireworks example in the forum post  http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/fireworks-t39513.html . It shows the difficulty of the 5th example puzzle and the corresponding value of the fireworks solution. Starting with the common neck … Continue reading →

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Sharing Hanabi’s Secrets

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Sudent

This post details a fireworks analysis on “Hanabi”, shye’s fifth example. The first four examples used matching elbows alone, along with bi-value cells. This one uses forcing chains to identify the value winning placement in the neck cell shared by … Continue reading →

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Fireworks 4 Stretches the Matched Elbow Rule.

Posted on January 11, 2022 by Sudent

After a challenging basic, we get two matched pairs on two values again, but this time, linked by a single bv. The second challenge is the application of the matched elbow rule of the last post in a more hypothetical … Continue reading →

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Fireworks 3 Matches Elbows and Bv

Posted on January 4, 2022 by Sudent

This post develops a property of a 2 value elbow match, and uses it with matching bv. Before we start on that, here are the elbow panels for the last week’s second example, just in case you want to compare … Continue reading →

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