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Tag Archives: Sudoku BARN
Nakex 183 Hides the Keys
The last review puzzle, Nakamoto Extreme 183, follows the collection’s pattern of hiding easier removals behind methods that are very difficult to spot. An effective defense is to maintain bv maps, X-panels, and coloring clusters carefully as more advanced results … Continue reading →
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Tagged ALS APE, confirming ANL by bv boomer, grouped X ANL, hidden UR 1, J.B.Nakamoto Extreme, Sudoku BARN, WXYZ-wing
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Nakamoto Extreme 123 Is, Briefly
Nakex 123 limps into AIC building briefly, then succumbs to Sudokuwiki XY chains, simple coloring traps, a coloring bridge and an outstanding BARN. Here is the grid at the end of a bypass exceptional among Nakamoto Extreme puzzles. The slink … Continue reading →
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Tagged ALS bv boomerang, bypass, coloring traps, J.B.Nakamoto Extreme, Sudoku BARN, XY wraps, XY-chains, XYZ-wing
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Sudokuwiki’s Nakamoto Extreme 103
After Sysudoku Basic, this post describes the Sudokuwiki advanced and AIC solution path on Nakex 103. The next post reports an alternative path shortened significantly by a freeform pattern analysis. Nakex 103 starts a little differently, with some bypass success: … Continue reading →
A Nakex 83 BARN Storming Finish
This post details the unusual finish of Nakamoto Extreme 83, with three more interdependent BARN’s, well assisted by Medusa coloring. From the first cluster trap and BARN, further expansion and the aligned triple continue to move Nakamoto Extreme 83 towards … Continue reading →
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Tagged J.B.Nakamoto Extreme, Shortcut ANL, Sudoku BARN
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A Nakex 83 BARN Challenge
Nakamoto 83 earns its Extreme badge by an extremely tough Basic, and resistance to anything short of AIC building. It ends with an expanding cluster, accelerated by a series of BARNs. This post brings you to the first one, and … Continue reading →
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Tagged AIC ALS nice loop, boomer confirming ANL, J.B.Nakamoto Extreme, Sudoku BARN, XY ANL
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Sudokuwiki Ends Nakex 63 On Its Own
This post picks up on the Sudokuwiki/Sysudoku resolution of Nakamoto Extreme 63 where it was overtaken by pattern analysis and coloring, and finishes it in two ways, one humanly practical and one not. Sudokuwiki doesn’t maintain coloring clusters between moves, … Continue reading →
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Tagged AIC ANL, AIC nice loop, ALS toxic pair, APE, cell forcing chains, hidden UR type 2, J.B.Nakamoto Extreme, Sudoku BARN, UR strong link
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Reviewing a Truly Extreme Collection
This post and the next initiate a review of Sudoku Puzzle Book, Extreme Level by J. B. Nakamoto, with Nakex 3. The review combines moves by Andrew Stuart’s Sudokuwiki solver with Sysudoku alternatives, while reporting and interpreting moves in accordance … Continue reading →
Posted in Advanced Solving, Puzzle Reviews
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Tagged grouped ANL, hidden UR type 1, J.B.Nakamoto Extreme, spotting boomerangs, Sudoku BARN, UR type 4
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Super Fiendish Bookends 67 and 77
This post steps through the most fiendish of the 10 puzzles preselected for the review of Brian Challenger’s Super Fiendish Sudoku, SF 67. , and then adds one of the bypass victims, SF 77. Looking at the trace, you might … Continue reading →
Metcalf’s Second Patterns Game Entry
This post reports a Sysudoku solution path for Mike’s second Patterns Game entry on a extraordinary pattern of givens. As a successful entry, I believe it had to meet the contest requirement for a simpler solution than is found here. … Continue reading →
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Tagged grouped AIC boomerang, hidden UR type 1, Sudoku BARN, the patterns game
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Another Dave Green Sysudoku Basic Workout
This post details another Sunday Dave Green 5-star coming ever so close to breaking the limit that Dave seems to impose on his Sunday puzzles. It appeared in the 9/15/2019 edition of the Akron Beacon Journal. My grid is unimpressed … Continue reading →
Posted in Basic Solving Procedures, Green, Puzzle Reviews
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Tagged Dave Green, hidden dublex, naked triple, Sudoku BARN, ur 1
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Systematic Sudoku 