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July 15 "very hard" medium at best

 
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prakash



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:53 am    Post subject: July 15 "very hard" medium at best Reply with quote

This did not require any advanced techniques. Was a big dissapointment. Checkt the solution twice and I couldn't find any mistakes.
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Marty R.



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same here; all basics.
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Kdelle



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And I agree! It was so easy I thought I'd made a mistake.
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cgordon



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ohh Kay.........

I guess there's no point in showing you my Unique Rectangle or my little x wing. Put them away, you say - back to the drawing board and the basics.
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cgordon



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK again: I played a round of golf - had a couple of pints - then revisited this "Medium at best". I give up - what's the next basic and non-VH step.
Code:

+------------+-------------+--------------+
| 68 2  678  | 467 5   9   | 1     3  48  |
| 1  69 6789 | 467 3   67  | 2     48 5   |
| 5  4  3    | 8   2   1   | 7     6  9   |
+------------+-------------+--------------+
| 2  8  15   | 9   16  3   | 456   45 7   |
| 4  3  15   | 16  7   28  | 568   9  268 |
| 7  69 69   | 5   4   28  | 3     1  28  |
+------------+-------------+--------------+
| 3  7  68   | 2   69  4   | 5689  58 1   |
| 9  15 4    | 167 8   567 | 56    2  3   |
| 68 15 2    | 3   169 56  | 45689 7  468 |
+------------+-------------+--------------+
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stevieboy



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The next steps that I see are the 2 separate Unique Rectangles:
The '<28> in rows 5 and 6, and the <69> in columns 2 and 3...after that, I believe that you're home free.

Still, I sure wish that I was golfing today...beautiful in Michigan!
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zx



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Check your 5s in boxes 7/8/9. That should clear some things up.
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cgordon



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stevieboy: Your solutions are VH techniques

ZX: Unless I am mistaken you are refering to an x-wing on 5. Again a VH thing.

The above posts state that the puzzle does NOT need VH techniques and can be solved by basics only. There's the rub!
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nataraj



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Craig,

the 5s in row 7 are confined to square 9, that removes 5 from r8c7,r9c7
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cgordon



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah right....

I wasn't my fault - it was them two pints.
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sudocraz



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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was really an easy puzzle, just basics. I didn't even have to practice with Unique Recs or x wings.
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