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Thanks for posting the puzzles each day Hugh. Your efforts are very much appreciated ... at least by most of us! I am in Canada, and I can't get the puzzles either. Thanks again, and hope you will ...

Rmireland - LOL - The grid after basics is the solved puzzle. As I said, I did not need any of the advanced techniques to solve it. Purely basics, which is why I double checked it.

OK, to be sure, I have solved today's puzzle twice, without having to use any of the VERY HARD techniques. Just a straightforward HARD puzzle the way I see it. Anyone else? Dart

Actually, both the Grade and the Solve buttons stopped working about a week or so ago. Strange, maybe its a New Year's hangover!

Regardless of whether R5C8=3 or=7, R1C9=3 solves it!

That starting point should have been Clements not hughwill

I got as far as hughwill, but trying to follow the strict VH moves, I do not see the 127 XYZ-Wing suggested by kuskey and Marty R.

What am I missing?

Huh? What? r4c7 is not 6! So what's up here?

Oooops ... Mia Culpa. I just realized that Arkietech and Moshero were not talking about today's puzzle.

Hmmm ... require a very advanced move to complete?

For some reason I was able to complete using basics only - and I double checked just to make sure I didn't make any mistakes!

Happy Valenti ...

I guess I just don't get it!

Everyone here is complaining about how messy the solution to the puzzle was and that it was hard going and took over 30 minutes to get through it.

Get a life! It wa ...

Clement - That would be Jan 17 - LOL

(Edited: Title was Dec 17 - keith)

XYZ wings? Not even. Unless I made a mistake, today's puzzle is solvable by basic methods! Dart

Keith, what would I do next and why? Well, remove the 8 at c9r7. Why? If c1r3 is 8 then c1r9 is not and therefore c9r9 needs to be an 8, thus c9r7 can’t be an 8. Alternatively, if c1r3 is not an 8 ...

First of all, I did not intend to sound like I had a monopoly on brain. My point was that not using any of the “tricks” made it more fun and satisfying to get the solution.

My approach is to make ...

Posted here before my incredulity at the lengths that some people here go to make things complicated. All this talk about pincers, jellyfish, xy-wings and pivots, etc., etc.

This approach just m ...

Hello all ... New to this site, but been solving the daily puzzles regularly. I never figured out what wings and all those other tricks of the trade were, but tried solving each day's puzzle as it ca ...