Category Archives: Puzzle Reviews

Reviews of preselected puzzles from published collections. Summary review table, and highlight analysis.

Departing Highlights on Bean’s Extremely Hard Sudoku

Posted on April 3, 2018 by

It’s time to wind up the volume 10 review, with a few highlights behind the review table. The first one is the very unusual basic trace of IV-12, the homework puzzle of the previous post. You have the characteristic Extremely … Continue reading →

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Bean Gets No Second Extreme

Posted on March 27, 2018 by

This post describes how I-41, in Extremely Hard v. 10 by Rebecca Bean comes close, but fails to force a deferred Single Alternate Sue de Coq trial. It does force a review of AIC hinges and grouped forcing chains. Here … Continue reading →

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Colorful Trials for Bean’s Extremely Hard v.10

Posted on March 22, 2018 by

This post calls on pattern directed coloring trials to solve IV-24, a puzzle in Rebecca Bean’s Extremely Hard, vol. 10. This one that seems to defy almost all advanced methods, and therefore, to deserve the rank of “extreme”. This also … Continue reading →

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Almost Extreme Bean ExHdv10 II-29

Posted on March 13, 2018 by

Here we have a regular XYZ wing with two irregular victims, multiple coloring clusters and wraps, one, by an AIC almost nice loop. Rebecca Beam’s Extremely Hard v.10 II-29 is borderline extreme. Basic is tough, but routine.   Except for … Continue reading →

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The Volume 10 Rebecca Bean Extremely Hard Sudoku

Posted on March 6, 2018 by

This post begins the second review of a Rebecca Bean collection, this one prompted by a clever cover, and similarities in format to recently reviewed collections attributed to Moito Publishing, A.D. Ardson and James D. Glover. Here we resolve Extremely … Continue reading →

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An Unexpected Challenge from TV Times

Posted on February 27, 2018 by

Sysudokie Sunday breakfasts were shaken up February 4 by the Sudoku in the TV Times, which unaccountably defied the bypass. Accustomed to dusting this one off as a warm up, many wound up with an unwelcomed cloud on the amply … Continue reading →

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Ardson’s Toughest, Even Slightly Diabolical, 310

Posted on February 20, 2018 by

This post fleshes out the review table entry, and checkpoints the two week homework assignment of the Ardson Sudoku Diabolical v.1. The early coloring typical of the review is helpful, but not decisive. In the bypass, the 3-fill menace is … Continue reading →

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