Tag Archives: finned X-wing

SASdC Unlock UHC 443 for Beeby

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Sudent

After the hidden unique rectangle hinted last week, a pair of Single Alternate Sue de Coq trials gets the review solver Beeby moving again. ALS-wings and a finned X-wing get us to a colorful finish. The hidden unique rectangle left … Continue reading →

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Preparing a Pattern Trial on UHC 179

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Sudent

This post does Basic and reports humanly practical results from the two review solvers on  ultrahardcore 179. Then for a stall breaking trial, we turn to  the limited value patterns, and their discovery through the X-panel view and freeform drawing.  … Continue reading →

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Brian Challenger’s Super Fiendish 7

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Sudent

The review of Challenger’s Super Fiendish collection opens with a long post, revisiting some advanced methods not seen here recently. Somewhat fiendish is the stonewalling in basic. The bypass gets nowhere, and the hidden triple alone removes candidates. Here is … Continue reading →

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Classic 48 Gets to the Crayons

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Sudent

The second Classic of Forest’s Classic Sudoku book 30 is a strategic win for Sysudoku Advanced. X-panel keys unlock an imbalanced web of 3, 6 and 8 candidates, allowing coloring clusters to carve it into four armies, which merge and … Continue reading →

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A Timely Finned Fish in funster Extreme 88

Posted on August 21, 2018 by Sudent

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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Coloring Dominates Very Hard III-15

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Sudent

The review of Moito’s Road to Mastery Sudoku continues with another example of early coloring and its cooperative interactions with the X-panel. The advanced path is similar to that of Very Hard I-35 two posts back, but this time coloring … Continue reading →

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Cluster Extension by Not-Both Trials

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Sudent

In this post and the next, the first puzzle of the Manuel Castillo Only Extreme Sudoku review, Only Extreme 3,  is taken ahead of the review of his Only Hard Sudoku. The reason is in the title. Rounding out the … Continue reading →

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Longo’s Nastiest Ever After

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Sudent

This post finishes the illustrative review of Frank Longo’s The Nastiest Sudoku Book Ever, with review puzzles 673, 684, 695 and 706. The bv scan and occasional easy coloring continue to be enough for what Frank claimed to be the … Continue reading →

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The Olive Side of Fata Morgana

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Sudent

This post illustrates with Fata Morgana the practice of taking both sides of a trial, to be sure that a contradiction is found. The pink trial led to the solution. Fully expecting a contradiction, the olive trial begins with the … Continue reading →

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Finishing More Extreme 200

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Sudent

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 →

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