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sdq_pete
Joined: 30 Apr 2007
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Location: Rotterdam, NL
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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:30 am Post subject: VH 8 Sept 08 |
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Quicky - couldn't find an X, but a W-wing did it. Curious what others found.
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andras
Joined: 31 Oct 2007
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Location: Mid Wales
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: |
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My wife found an xy, but I solved it with no advanced techniques as all. In fact I told her that it must have been a mistake to classify it as a VH when it should have been marked Easy.
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arkietech
Joined: 31 Jul 2008
Posts: 1834
Location: Northwest Arkansas USA
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:40 am Post subject: Re: VH 8 Sept 08 |
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| sdq_pete wrote: | Curious what others found.
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| Code: | *-----------*
|...|79.|.43|
|...|...|.15|
|...|.23|...|
|---+---+---|
|..1|65.|.9.|
|..8|4.9|7..|
|.5.|.72|6..|
|---+---+---|
|...|21.|...|
|34.|...|...|
|61.|.87|...|
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I needed an xy-wing |
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tlanglet
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
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Location: Northern California Foothills
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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I also used a xy-wing with the pivot in b4.
This was another easy, one-stepper. It would be nice if the VH puzzles were more involved.
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cgordon
Joined: 04 May 2007
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Location: ontario, canada
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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Fast going up to the <379> xy wing - which took me a while to locate, because I'm xy-wing challenged. Don't believe it can be done without a VH step.
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sdq_pete
Joined: 30 Apr 2007
Posts: 119
Location: Rotterdam, NL
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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Just to clarify, then:
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+-------------+-------+----------+
| 5 28 6 | 7 9 1 | 28 4 3 |
| 79 2379 379 | 8 4 6 | 29 1 5 |
| 1 89 4 | 5 2 3 | 89 67 67 |
+-------------+-------+----------+
| 47 37 1 | 6 5 8 | 34 9 2 |
| 2 6 8 | 4 3 9 | 7 5 1 |
| 49 5 39 | 1 7 2 | 6 38 48 |
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| 8 79 579 | 2 1 4 | 35 36 69 |
| 3 4 2 | 9 6 5 | 1 78 78 |
| 6 1 59 | 3 8 7 | 45 2 49 |
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Play this puzzle online
The XY indeed should have been pretty clear. The W-wing was based on the 79's in Blocks 1 and 7 and the 7's in Block 4.
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Marty R.
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
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Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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I was playing around to see how many different moves I could find. The 79 W-Wing didn't get me very far, but the M-Wing on 49 in boxes 49 made it a one-stepper.
Also, to preclude the DP 28-29-89 in rows 123, columns 27, r2c2 must be 3 or 7. One of them led to an invalid solution and the other one solved the puzzle, but with less elegance. |
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Wendy W
Joined: 04 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I kind of figured it would be pretty easy when I filled in boxes 2, 5, and 8 immediately! |
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