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		daj95376
 
 
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:19 am    Post subject: Puzzle 10/07/20: C | 
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				My rating guideline is gone. It wasn't being used anyway.
 
 
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 | 4 . . | . . . | . 9 . |
 
 | . 9 . | 3 . 4 | 5 . . |
 
 | . . 5 | 9 . . | . 2 . |
 
 |-------+-------+-------|
 
 | . 5 8 | 2 . 9 | 6 4 1 |
 
 | . . . | . . . | 2 . . |
 
 | . 2 . | 8 . . | . . 9 |
 
 |-------+-------+-------|
 
 | . 4 . | 5 9 . | 3 . . |
 
 | 5 . 9 | 6 . . | . 1 2 |
 
 | . . . | 4 . 2 | . 6 . |
 
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		tlanglet
 
 
  Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 2468 Location: Northern California Foothills
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 1:45 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Danny,
 
 
I enjoy all your puzzles, rated or not. Thanks for all the time and energy you commit to provide us these pleasures.
 
 
For this puzzle I used two steps.
 
 
 	  | Quote: | 	 		  AXY-wing 1-67 vertex (17)r1c4, pincers (67)r1c2 & (16)r3c5 with fin (1)r1c2
 
If xy-wing is true: r1c56,r3c12<>6
 
If fin is true: (1)r1c2-r1c7=r3c7-(1=6)r3c5; r1c56,r3c12<>6
 
 
UR12[(5)r1c5=(7)r1c3]r12c35-r1c46=r3c6-(7=3)r8c6-(3=5)r6c6; r1c6<>5 | 	  
 
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		peterj
 
 
  Joined: 26 Mar 2010 Posts: 974 Location: London, UK
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:35 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Here's a pretty ugly one-stepper using an ANT to delete two digits..
 
 
Consider the ANT(168) r3c567
 
If the triple exists then it eliminates (16) from r3c12.
 
If r3c6=7 then it forces 6 in r3c5 and 1 in r2c3, again eliminating (16) from r3c12.
 
 
Something like...
 
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ANT[(168)r3c567=(7)r3c6] - (7=1)r1c4 - (1=6)r3c5             ; r3c12<>6
 
                                     - (1=2)r2c5 - (2=1)r2c3 ; r3c12<>1 | 	 
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		tlanglet
 
 
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:57 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Sorry Peter but I do not see any 'ugly" in that move.
 
 
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		Luke451
 
 
  Joined: 20 Apr 2008 Posts: 310 Location: Southern Northern California
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				 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:32 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Also the ole hidden pair trick in that neighborhood:
 
 
 	  | Code: | 	 		  *-----------------------------------------------------------*
 
 | 4     167   127   | 17    1256  5678  | 18    9     3     |
 
 | 8     9     12    | 3     12    4     | 5     7     6     |
 
 | 1367  1367  5     | 9     16    678   | 18    2     4     |
 
 |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
 
 | 37    5     8     | 2     37    9     | 6     4     1     |
 
 | 9     1367  1347  | 17    1456  3567  | 2     35    8     |
 
 | 136   2     134   | 8     1456  356   | 7     35    9     |
 
 |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
 
 | 2     4     6     | 5     9     1     | 3     8     7     |
 
 | 5     378   9     | 6     378   37    | 4     1     2     |
 
 | 137   1378  137   | 4     378   2     | 9     6     5     |
 
 *-----------------------------------------------------------* | 	  
 
 
hp(37)r3c12=(7)r3c6-(7=1)r1c4-(1=6)r3c5 =>r3c12<>6 | 
			 
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