Category Archives: Advanced Solving

Techniques applying after candidates are identified. Why they work. How and when to look for them.

Lite Coloring Avoids Trials in KrazyDad 425

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Sudent

This post backs up your lite coloring effort, I hope, on KrazyDad 425. The initial lite trees deliver a cluster merge, and as these grow, lite coloring gives two confirmations and a coloring wrap to finish without trial. The first … Continue reading →

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A Lite Update on Castillo’s Only Extreme 347

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Sudent

This post updates a solution by coloring trial in the review post of 12/19/17. A bypass of 6 4-fills resolves 3 of them immediately,  but goes no further than the original 3-fill only bypass.  Then we follow Beeby through a … Continue reading →

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A Lite Coloring Update of Castillo’s Only Extreme 261

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Sudent

This post is the first of several which update earlier review solutions to include a new guy in town, lite coloring. The earlier posts will be left as they are, except for added links to these updating posts. Instead of … Continue reading →

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An Error Hides a Lite Coloring Trap on ultrahardcore 399

Posted on January 12, 2021 by Sudent

This post corrects an error on the post of December 8, that prevents a lite coloring trap in ultrahardcore 399. Then there’s follow up on the trap, with the lite coloring marking in place. Trial is not avoided, but the … Continue reading →

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Lite Coloring in a Red Russel Special

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Sudent

This post explains lite coloring as I understand it from comments and emails from its apparent inventor, Dov Mittelman. I only know Dov as a reader of this blog. He (or she) does his analysis in his head and on … Continue reading →

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Ultrahardcore 91 Trials Unleash Beeby

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Sudent

Here is the basics launch on Stefan Heine’s ultrahardcore 91, which quickly runs my two assisting solvers out of humanly practical removals. A Single Alternate Sue de Coq  trial reduces two clusters two one, and produces  two critical clues. In … Continue reading →

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Ultrahardcore 3 Falls to Coloring Trials

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Sudent

This post reports coloring trials that gain the solution after forcing chains when Sudokuwiki gives up.   This includes an example of a grid diagram illustrating the route to contradiction in a breath first trial trace. Then we close with a comment  … Continue reading →

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An Orphan Takes Down Nakamoto Extreme 163

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Sudent

In this post, AIC building is replaced by BARN’s, conventional chains, coloring, and a noteworthy pattern analysis result. Nakex 163 basic starts with a 3-fill. The bypass contains six more. Two resolve into clue and naked pair, and one, into … Continue reading →

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Nakamoto 143 Avoids Extremes

Posted on April 7, 2020 by Sudent

Nakex 143, the eighth puzzle in the review, avoids AIC building with an outstanding exhibition of advanced techniques, and three subsets in basic line marking, including this naked triple. Two more show up in LM closing, the stage that examines … Continue reading →

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Nakamoto Extreme 123 Is, Briefly

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Sudent

Nakex 123 limps into AIC building briefly,  then succumbs to Sudokuwiki XY chains, simple coloring traps,  a coloring bridge and an outstanding BARN. Here is the grid at the end of a bypass exceptional among Nakamoto Extreme puzzles. The slink … Continue reading →

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