Tag Archives: finned X-wing

Softening left page ultrahardcore 353

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Sudent

Here is another puzzle the DIY oriented solvers suggest is too hard for human solving, even as the moves they find are too instructive to ignore.  This post gets quickly to ALS methods that demand exhaustive enumeration from the DIY … Continue reading →

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UHC 309 Rounds the Bases

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Sudent

The ultrahardcore review solvers illustrate a diverse solution path, before and after AIC and cluster building. Here is the grid after the bypass and box marking. Beeby found a naked single SE4 in r8c7 in its basic. The Sysudoku Basic … Continue reading →

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Two Solvers Play With UHC 265

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Sudent

Heine’s left page ultrahardcore 265 is solved in two posts. This post follows the alternative methods of the review solvers Beeby and Sudokuwiki until they converge on a long series of AIC in the second post. Here is the grid … Continue reading →

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Heine’s ultrahardcore 1 Starts the Review of Left Pages

Posted on August 10, 2021 by Sudent

This post whittles on a tough grid, duplicating results of the two solvers by different means. When the solvers stall, we find a Single Alternate Sue de Coq for readers to try. Sysudoku Basic brings four clues and  slinks, but … Continue reading →

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A KDST 595 Hidden Weakness

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Sudent

In KrazyDad SuperTough v.5, b.9, n.5, an almost naked triple is concealed, awaiting a single elimination. It’s not something reasonable to search for, but two systematic constructions get you there. An otherwise anemic bypass fills the NorthEast box, but slink … Continue reading →

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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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