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		daj95376
 
 
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				 Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:38 am    Post subject: Puzzle 10/07/23: A | 
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 | . . . | 2 . 8 | 6 7 . |
 
 | . 6 . | 5 . . | 8 9 3 |
 
 | . . 3 | . . 7 | 1 . . |
 
 |-------+-------+-------|
 
 | 7 3 . | 9 . . | 2 . . |
 
 | . . . | . . 3 | 9 . . |
 
 | 1 . 2 | . 7 . | . . . |
 
 |-------+-------+-------|
 
 | 9 7 8 | 3 6 . | 5 1 . |
 
 | 3 2 . | . . . | 7 . . |
 
 | . 5 . | . . . | . . . |
 
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Play this puzzle online at the Daily Sudoku site | 
			 
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		Luke451
 
 
  Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 310 Location: Southern Northern California
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				 Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:38 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Is it my imagination, or did 10/07/23: A mysteriously morph into a different puzzle   | 
			 
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		daj95376
 
 
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				 Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:25 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				 	  | Luke451 wrote: | 	 		  Is it my imagination, or did 10/07/23: A mysteriously morph into a different puzzle   | 	  
 
The current version matches the entry in my "current puzzles" file and my archive file for the month of July. | 
			 
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		Marty R.
 
 
  Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 5770 Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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				 Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 10:57 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				 	  | Luke451 wrote: | 	 		  Is it my imagination, or did 10/07/23: A mysteriously morph into a different puzzle   | 	  
 
It morphed--unfortunately--into A-1, A-2 and A-3, but I'll spare you the gruesome details.    
 
 
Skyscraper (4) + two extensions
 
Coloring (8 )
 
XY-Wing (234), flightless with pincer extension
 
Type 1 UR (48 )
 
XY-Wing (184); there was also a BUG+2 available as an alternative | 
			 
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		peterj
 
 
  Joined: 26 Mar 2010 Posts: 974 Location: London, UK
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				 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 1:21 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Lots of single-digit moves, the first in this two-stepper does a lot of eliminations if not too much damage!
 
 
 	  | Quote: | 	 		  x-loop(4) (4)r6c4=r8c4 - r7c6=r7c9 - r9c7=r6c7 - (4)r6c4; r6c68<>4, r89c8<>4, r89c56<>4
 
ANP(46)[(46)r9c13=(1)r9c3] - (1=8)r9c5 - (8=4)r8c4; r8c3<>4 | 	 
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		tlanglet
 
 
  Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 2468 Location: Northern California Foothills
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				 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:42 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				A three step solution without a single digit pattern.
 
 
 	  | Quote: | 	 		  Overlapping Type 4 URs:
 
(45)r13c19 with x-wing 5; r3c19<>4
 
(48)r35c12 with x-wing 8; r35c1<>4 which sets up a short xy-chain
 
 
(4=2)r7c9-(2=5)r3c9-(5=8)r3c1-(8=6)r5c1-(6=4)r9c1; r9c78<>4
 
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Ted | 
			 
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		daj95376
 
 
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				 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:29 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				 	  | peterj wrote: | 	 		  Lots of single-digit moves, the first in this two-stepper does a lot of eliminations if not too much damage!
 
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For this forum, I restrict my fish solutions to size N=2, which catches X-Wings, Skyscrapers, Kites, and Empty Rectangles. After reading your first step, I manually confirmed a larger fish. Nice catch!
 
 
unfinned mutant Swordfish r7c47\r6b89
 
 
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Ted: Nice find for steps 1/2 ... and single-digit steps all around! | 
			 
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