Tag Archives: hidden unique rectangle

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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UHC 177 Introduces a Beeby Option

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Sudent

This post gets left page ultrahardcore 177 to coloring with an interesting Sysudoku Basic and a kraken X-wing accessed with a recently added AIC option. Stefan Heine’s ultrahardcore 177 makes many left page concessions, but makes a fight of it. … Continue reading →

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KrazyDad Super-Tough 525 Review Update

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Sudent

This post has an updated solution of KDST 525, starting with a 3-fill and a rare remote pair. The bv scan has an irregular XYZ-wing, and the 6-panel features a  long XY nice loop that illustrates the XY Railroad on … Continue reading →

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A Lite Update on Castillo’s Only Extreme 347

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Sudent

This post updates a solution by coloring trial in the review post of 12/19/17. A bypass of 6 4-fills resolves 3 of them immediately,  but goes no further than the original 3-fill only bypass.  Then we follow Beeby through a … 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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An SASdC Trial Defeats ultrahardcore 355

Posted on December 1, 2020 by Sudent

In this post a SASdC trial plays like a regular hard puzzle from other collections. The trial amounts to adding two clues, and seeing  what happens.  But it isn’t guessing, and instead of making a small gain, the trial solves … Continue reading →

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Systematic FTSPAH 44 and 84

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Sudent

This post demonstrates two more FTSPAH unlikely to frustrate anyone following the Sysudoku order of battle. FTSPAH 44 begins with an unusually large number of givens, which generates a correspondingly large number of 3-fills. In fact, the givens offer both … Continue reading →

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Lucky Panda 240 Rides Nice Loop Coloring

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Sudent

The candidates of a nice loop form a coloring cluster. This review puzzle from the Lucky Panda Sudoku review illustrates a decisive nice loop coloring. Two hidden UR 2 show up as well. After a productive bypass and box marking, … Continue reading →

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Only Extreme 304 is AIC Level

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Sudent

This post and the next update Castillo’s Only Extreme Sudoku review with a solution of OnEx 304 without trials. Most of the solution path is in AIC building, the most challenging level of Sysudoku Advanced. The only move prior to … Continue reading →

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