Tag Archives: AIC almost nice loops

World’s Hardest Sudoku 65

Posted on June 5, 2018 by

Not really hardest, but entertaining. World’s Hardest Sudoku 65 has a UR challenge, a UPE, a finned swordfish, an AIC ANL, and a very different color wrap. It’s also a few cells short of a multiple solution. Basics are moderate, … Continue reading →

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Only Extreme 132 Joins the Extreme Team

Posted on October 24, 2017 by

Another payoff for expansion of a limited coloring network via AIC slink. It’s an extreme tactic that, after six years of blogging, I finally blundered my way into.  This collection illustrates the not-both trial thoroughly. Please comment if you know … Continue reading →

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Fick’s Advanced Path on Only Extreme 3

Posted on October 3, 2017 by

In the pre-review post of August 29, Cluster Extension by Not-Both Trials, a series of coloring cluster expansions were made by testing the not-both condition for AIC slink coloring. Like other trials, this tactic is considered extreme here in Sysudoku. … Continue reading →

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Remaining THLS XV hXY Avoided

Posted on January 17, 2017 by

Here we complete the report on the puzzles selected in The Hidden Logic of Sudoku to show that hidden XY chains are an “inescapable tool for the advanced player”, and therefore  require the generation and maintenance of symmetry grids. None … Continue reading →

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Hodoku Grouped AIC I

Posted on November 17, 2015 by

This post uses two grouped AIC ANL from Hodoku to illustrate how such chains are inspired and constructed. After the first, readers are challenged to try this approach on the following examples, with checkpoint to follow. I was prepared to … Continue reading →

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Simplifying Hodoku AIC

Posted on November 3, 2015 by

This post examines the AIC examples from the Discontinuous Nice Loop section of Hodoku Chain and Loop techniques page. Hodoku claims to demonstrate a new type of elimination technique based on AIC loops, called AIC Discontinuous Type 2. AIC ANL … Continue reading →

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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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