Category Archives: Weekly Extreme

10 selected puzzles 426 -435 from the Weekly Extreme Competition

Revisiting Wex 435

Posted on July 21, 2015 by

This post updates the Weekly Extreme Review with a revisit of Wex 435, a puzzle that proved resistant to the single alternate Sue de Coq and was deemed the toughest in the review series, inspiring an extreme ALS trial, the … Continue reading →

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Closing the Weekly Extreme Review

Posted on June 9, 2015 by

This is the final post of the Sysudoku WEC collection review. It opens with a checkpoint on the finish of a pink/olive pattern analysis and with it, Weekly Extreme Competition 435. A review table shows the features found in each … Continue reading →

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The ALS Jump Ball

Posted on June 2, 2015 by

The last review puzzle from the Weekly Extreme Competition, Wex 435, evades the Sue de Coq to give us: a precaution about grouped forcing chains in XYZ-wings, a genuinely extreme patterns trial, and an obvious form of ALS trial to … Continue reading →

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A Tracing Exercise with Wex 434

Posted on May 26, 2015 by

A careful marking session finishes Wex 434 in box marking! This surprising event demonstrates how 2-D depth first tracing fully exploits removals and confirmations. My first time through to a solution I considered Wex 434 among the most deserving of … Continue reading →

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Two More Wex Join Sue’s Parade

Posted on May 19, 2015 by

In Weekly Extreme 432, a Sue de Coq shows some promising removals, but we never get there, because the verification trial solves the puzzle. After moderate basic solving in all three Sysudoku stages,     Wex 432 presents the Sue … Continue reading →

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Wex 431 Slips by Sue, but is Caught

Posted on May 12, 2015 by

Finally a Weekly Extreme gets through the Sue de Coq gauntlet. Or so I thought. But after a joyful romp into XYZ-wing technique, and coloring aided by pattern analysis, I get to demonstrate instead another resource of my single alternative … Continue reading →

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Wex 430 Bewitched by Sue de Coq

Posted on April 28, 2015 by

After putting up a decent fight in basic, Weekly Extreme 430 joins an embarrassingly long line of Weekly Extreme Competition puzzles defeated by the single alternate Sue de Coq, one my early advanced solving discoveries. This time it’s the verification … Continue reading →

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Wex 429 is Sued

Posted on April 21, 2015 by

In the review of a sequence of 10 Weekly Extreme Competition puzzles, Wex 429 is toppled by an easily verified Sue de Coq. The post begins with a checkpoint for the reader’s own solution of Wex 428 by single alternate … Continue reading →

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Sue Defeats the Slippery Wex 428

Posted on April 14, 2015 by

The third Weekly Extremes review puzzle is another rewrite, in which an extreme level pattern analysis is made unnecessary by an advanced technique overlooked at first reading. Taxes in? On the review, Wex 428 was easy on us through basic … Continue reading →

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A Colorful Verification Creams Wex 427

Posted on April 7, 2015 by

The second Weekly Extreme review puzzle, 427 is prey of a Sue de Coq verification trial, but I had to get out the crayons to do it. Non WECers, did you like your first Weekly Extreme Competition puzzle? If you … Continue reading →

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