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Tag Archives: AIC
No THLS Case for Hidden XY Chains
This post and the next demonstrate that the examples presented in The Hidden Logic of Sudoku as requiring “Hidden” XY Chains actually have alternative, and much less demanding, resolution paths in the Sysudoku repertoire. The burdensome maintenance of symmetry grids is … Continue reading
Hodoku Nice Loop Mythology
This post dismisses the Stephens/Hobiger theory of cell links, propogation rules, and loop closing rules as unnecessary and overcomplicated. It uses the first two Hodoku AIC ANL examples to demonstrate the alternative Sysudoku chain construction process. As a blogger, one … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving, Expert Reviews, Hobiger
Tagged AIC, AIC hinge, Bernhard Hobiger, Discontinuous Nice Loops, Hodoku, nice loops
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Hodoku Chain Building
This post endorses Hodoku’s explanation of strong and weak links, regretfully confined to chains. His discussions of grouping and ALS nodes are supplemented for completeness. Hodoku graphic representation of chains by cell shading and candidate coloring is seen to be … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving, Expert Reviews, Hobiger
Tagged AIC, ALS AIC node, Bernhard Hobiger, grouped chains, Hodoku, strong links, weak links
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Decoding Hodoku Chain Notes
This post comments on the first part of the Hodoku “Chains and Loops” page. It reveals the premise dependent view of chains to be based on computer coding, and unsuited for human solving advice. It explains Hodoku’s chain notations as … Continue reading
Posted in Expert Reviews, Hobiger
Tagged AIC, Bernhard Hobiger, forcing chains, Hodoku, irregualr XYZ-wing, XY-wing
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A Sudokuwiki Resolution of Insane 475
In this post Insane 475 is taken through basic and then submitted to Andrew Stuart’s Sudokuwiki solver for advanced solving. In the original review, the puzzle was solved by an Single Alternative Sue de Coq trial, but in this update … Continue reading
Posted in Extreme Solving, KrazyDad, Puzzle Reviews
Tagged AIC, AIC trial, pattern slicing, pink olive analysis, sue-de-coq
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Digit Forcing Chains?
Is Andrew Stuart’s Digit Forcing Chains a useful new solving technique? Actually, no. Andrew’s sudowiki site introduces digit forcing chains with examples that raise – and seem to settle – that question. Needless confusion is created by this unwarranted introduction. First, have you … Continue reading
Toxic ALS in Unsolvable 40
Our struggle with Unsolvable 40 continues with a detailed walk through of the search for ALS toxic sets, and an analysis of the its stuck number ALS. Here is our grid with row ALS superimposed on a thin, as yet … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving
Tagged AIC, ALS toxic sets, color clusters, LPO, Medusa coloring, POM, toxic sets, XY-chain
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The ALS Node in the AIC
This post explains how an Almost Locked Set, an ALS, can be a node in an AIC, providing a slink between two winks connecting candidates of different numbers. In this blog the ALS was first applied in the Sysudoku version … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving
Tagged AIC, AIC nice loop, ALS AIC node, ALS aided AIC, ALS node
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Dessert at the Colorful AIC Feast
Happy 4th! Last post, on Maestro 49 of Fall 2009 we mixed coloring and AIC to good effect, and discovered the joys of the slink/wink color shortcut in AIC chains. We continue now with two clusters. The second, red/orange cluster … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving
Tagged AIC, AIC almost nice loops, AIC hinge, color clusters
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A Colorful AIC Feast
We are met today to confirm the AIC take down by sysudokie readers on a tough steer, Megastar Maestro 49 of Fall 2009. The rodeo begins with limited coloring, the identification of five AIC hinge cells, and an extension of … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving
Tagged AIC, AIC almost nice loops, AIC coloring shortcut, almost nice loop, Medusa coloring
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