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Reviewing a Truly Extreme Collection

Posted on January 14, 2020 by

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 →

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Super Fiendish Bookends 67 and 77

Posted on December 31, 2019 by

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 →

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Metcalf’s Second Patterns Game Entry

Posted on November 26, 2019 by

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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Another Dave Green Sysudoku Basic Workout

Posted on October 8, 2019 by

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 →

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Classic 168 and Updated Only Extreme 89

Posted on April 9, 2019 by

James Forest’s Classic Sudoku 168 is a Basic level challenge.  In this post, the Classic review is continued with the 168 box marked grid, and a basic trace carrying through the collapse on the second line of line marking. Then … Continue reading →

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An XY Playground in Classic 72

Posted on March 12, 2019 by

James Forest’s Classic 72 delivers two rare birds, then gets tripped up by a Y-wing. The bypass threatens to take over, but leaves  an XY playground.       The line marked grid gives all of the Sysudoku Basic results. … Continue reading →

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Books 3 and 4 In the KD Insane Review

Posted on January 1, 2019 by

Welcome to 2019 Systematic Sudoku. This post continues on the updated KrazyDad v4 review, with KD Insane 435 and 445. This is a brief report on what you’ll find in the updated posts of August 2013. The review update begins … Continue reading →

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