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wapati



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:13 pm    Post subject: Good puzzle, I used Hoduko to generate. Reply with quote

Code:
3 . .|. . .|9 . 2
. 5 .|3 . .|7 . .
. . 7|4 . 2|. . .
-----+-----+-----
. . .|8 . .|3 . .
. . .|5 2 3|. . .
. . 8|. . 1|. . .
-----+-----+-----
. . .|7 . 4|6 . .
. . 9|. . 6|. 4 .
1 . 4|. . .|. . 5
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Marty R.



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:

+-------+-------+-------+
| 3 . . | . . . | 9 . 2 |
| . 5 . | 3 . . | 7 . . |
| . . 7 | 4 . 2 | . . . |
+-------+-------+-------+
| . . . | 8 . . | 3 . . |
| . . . | 5 2 3 | . . . |
| . . 8 | . . 1 | . . . |
+-------+-------+-------+
| . . . | 7 . 4 | 6 . . |
| . . 9 | . . 6 | . 4 . |
| 1 . 4 | . . . | . . 5 |
+-------+-------+-------+

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Marty R.



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I won't bother with the gory details, but it took me nine moves to reduce the grid to a BUG+2.
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storm_norm



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
+-------------------+----------------+---------------------+
| 3      4     6(1) | 6(1)  7     5  | 9      8     2      |
| 689    5     2    | 3     1689  89 | 7      16    4      |
| 689    189   7    | 4     1689  2  | 5      3     16     |
+-------------------+----------------+---------------------+
| 2469   129   5    | 8     469   7  | 3      1269  169    |
| 4679   79-1  6(1) | 5     2     3  | 48(1)  69-1  6789-1 |
| 24679  3     8    | 69    469   1  | 24     5     679    |
+-------------------+----------------+---------------------+
| 258    28    3    | 7     158   4  | 6      129   189    |
| 2578   278   9    | 2(1)  58-1  6  | 28(1)  4     3      |
| 1      6     4    | 29    3     89 | 28     7     5      |
+-------------------+----------------+---------------------+

#1... sword on 1's... (1)r5c7 = (1)r8c7 - (1)r8c4 = (1)r1c4 - (1)r1c3 = (1)r5c3;
its also a loop.
any other 1's in rows 1, 5 and 8 are eliminated.

Code:
+----------------+--------------+------------------+
| 3      4    16 | 16  7     5  | 9    8     2     |
| 689    5    2  | 3   1689  89 | 7    16    4     |
| 689    189  7  | 4   1689  2  | 5    3     (16)  |
+----------------+--------------+------------------+
| 2469   129  5  | 8   469   7  | 3    1269  (169) |
| 4679   79   16 | 5   2     3  | 148  (69)  789-6 |
| 24679  3    8  | 69  469   1  | 24   5     79-6  |
+----------------+--------------+------------------+
| 258    28   3  | 7   158   4  | 6    129   189   |
| 2578   278  9  | 12  58    6  | 128  4     3     |
| 1      6    4  | 29  3     89 | 28   7     5     |
+----------------+--------------+------------------+

#2...xyz-wing (1,6,9) r56c9 <> 6

Code:
+----------------+----------------+------------------+
| 3      4    16 | 16    7     5  | 9      8     2   |
| 689    5    2  | 3     1689  89 | 7      16    4   |
| 689    189  7  | 4     1689  2  | 5      3     16  |
+----------------+----------------+------------------+
| 2469   129  5  | 8     469   7  | 3      1269  169 |
| 4679   79   16 | 5     2     3  | 8(14)  69    789 |
| 24679  3    8  | 69    469   1  | -2(4)  5     79  |
+----------------+----------------+------------------+
| 258    28   3  | 7     158   4  | 6      129   189 |
| 2578   278  9  | (12)  58    6  | 28(1)  4     3   |
| 1      6    4  | 9(2)  3     89 | 8(2)   7     5   |
+----------------+----------------+------------------+

#3...(2)r9c7 = (2)r9c4 - (2=1)r8c4 - (1)r8c7 = (1-4)r5c7 = (4)r6c7; r6c7 <> 2

#4...skyscraper 6: r2c1 <> 6

#5...bug+1: r3c1 = 9
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peterj



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems like I missed the swordfish again!
Code:
anp(28=1)r98c7 - (1=2)r8c4 - (2=9)r9c4 - (9=8)r9c6 - (8=2)r9c7 ; r6c7<>2

skyscraper(6) c3, c8 ; r2c1<>6

BUG+2[(9)r3c1=(1)r5c8] - (1=6)r5c3 - (6=9)r4c1 ; r2c1<>9     (or x-wing(1)/BUG+1)
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