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Tag Archives: Antoine Alary
Gordon Fick Tricks More Extreme 200
This post reports an alternative solution, without my pattern analysis, to Antoine Alary’s special More Extreme 200, based on a Sysudoku reader’s innovative use of a little known technique, the double common ALS pair. Two ALS sharing two restricted common … Continue reading
Posted in Alary, Extreme Solving, Puzzle Reviews
Tagged ALS toxic set, ALS-XZ, Antoine Alary, double common ALS pair, ER ANL, Gordon Fick, remote pair
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Finishing More Extreme 200
This post continues, slicing the 9 patterns of More Extreme 200, and conducting trials of the divided sets. A brief, but decisive cluster merge ends the struggle. Antoine was right. #200 is outstanding. Following a pink/olive analysis on the 9 … Continue reading
Taking on More Extreme 200
This post and the next checkpoint a sysudokie solution of Antoine Alary’s extra tough More Extreme 200. Sysudokie readers are given an opportunity to get a little extreme, as well. Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Let’s do the 200. But first, … Continue reading
Posted in Alary, Extreme Solving, Puzzle Reviews
Tagged Antoine Alary, double x-wing, More Extreme 200, pattern analysis, pink olive analysis, sue-de-coq
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Just One More “More Extreme”
This post concludes the Alary More Extreme review puzzles with More 144, Basic marking features a timely naked quad, and advanced solving is another parade of highlights. The basic trace classifies More Extreme 144 as a tough one. I would … Continue reading
Smooth Navigation in Rocky Terrain
This post reports a sysudokie attack on Alary’s More Extreme 84 with several highlight eliminations. A naked triple and a combination X-panel punch on the tightly linked numbers lead to a polarity ANL, color bridging and a surprising color wrap. … Continue reading
Alary at His Stingiest
This post details the solving of the Antoine Alary review puzzle More Extreme 104, featuring a laborious line marking leading to a sea of candidates. Then the day is saved by Antoine’s escape hatch, maintaining a reasonably advanced level of … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Alary, line marking, naked triple, X-chain
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A Little More Extreme
Here is a follow up on the advanced level More Extreme 4, with background looks at the bv map, XYZ map, and X-panel . There is a challenge to find a forcing chain XYZ alongside a regular one. Entering the … Continue reading
More Extreme?
Here we begin a review of the second collection of Antoine Alary’s Extreme series, with general comments, a review table, and a checkpoint on the Sysudoku solving on More Extreme 64, a puzzle that is typical of the “generous” variety … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving, Alary, Puzzle Reviews
Tagged Antoine Alary, color wrap, forcing chain, More Extreme Sudoku, slink marking bypass, XYZ-wing
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Guide 775 Concluded
Here we continue with Gordon Guide 775, going through Sysudoku advanced methods, but trying particularly to invoke those brought up in the Guide. Last week, we found a regular XYZ-wing, a 231-wing to be exact, generating 11 new clues and … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Solving, Puzzle Reviews
Tagged Antoine Alary, ER XYZ-wing, forcing chain, Frank Longo, Gordon Guide Sudoku, Sudoku BUG
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