Category Archives: Puzzle Reviews

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

Funster Extreme 130 Falls in Line Marking

Posted on September 11, 2018 by

The funster Extreme collection review closes here, with the early departure of the last pre-selected puzzle, Extreme 130. Charles Timmerman’s funster Hard to Extreme Sudoku includes 134 Hard, 134 Very Hard and 134 Extreme puzzles. Here is the Sysudoku review … Continue reading →

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A funster Extreme 116 Labor Day Special

Posted on September 4, 2018 by

An effective bypass, and a simple uniqueness rectangle, and three choices to close down funster Extreme 116 early. Charles Timmerman’s funster Extreme collection is less than  extreme, but a good introduction to advanced solving methods. The basic work is easy, … Continue reading →

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Funster Extreme 102 Goes BOGO

Posted on August 28, 2018 by

Barely escaping the bypass, funster Extreme 102 offers a thematic example as inference chain seeing nets an extra victim for the collapse. Close to a bypass victim, Extreme 102 finishes basic quietly. On the line marked grid grid is a … Continue reading →

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A Timely Finned Fish in funster Extreme 88

Posted on August 21, 2018 by

Continuing the review of Charles Timmerman’s funster Hard to Extreme Sudoku, with Extreme 88. The basic compensates for a modest  bypass with a favorable line marking. A naked single early and a finned 2-wing late. Finned fish is a topic … Continue reading →

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Funster Extreme 60 and 74 Go Together

Posted on August 14, 2018 by

Two brief advanced appearances are reported in this post in review of the Extreme section of Charles Timmerman’s Funster Hard to Extreme Sudoku. In Extreme 60, the bypass starts with a 3-fill and uses them to solve a big wedge. … Continue reading →

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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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