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roaa



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:51 am    Post subject: VH Jan 3 Reply with quote

An xy-wing (179) pivoted at r9c3 solves it. A hidden pair (26) is not needed to use.
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hughwill



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:01 am    Post subject: VH Jan 3 Reply with quote

After basics:

Code:

+---------------+--------------+--------------+
| 168 9    5    | 1348 124  7  | 28  136 1246 |
| 7   1468 14   | 1348 1249 29 | 5   136 1246 |
| 3   148  2    | 148  5    6  | 789 179 1479 |
+---------------+--------------+--------------+
| 15  15   6    | 7    3    29 | 29  4   8    |
| 29  3    8    | 5    29   4  | 1   67  67   |
| 4   27   79   | 6    8    1  | 3   5   29   |
+---------------+--------------+--------------+
| 19  147  1479 | 2    17   5  | 6   8   3    |
| 26  26   3    | 14   147  8  | 79  179 5    |
| 58  58   17   | 9    6    3  | 4   2   17   |
+---------------+--------------+--------------+

Play this puzzle online at the Daily Sudoku site
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Mindwarp



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I didn't find anything hard about this one took me 5 minute 55 second using sweep
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keith



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mindwarp wrote:
I didn't find anything hard about this one took me 5 minute 55 second using sweep

If you'd like something little harder, try the "Other Puzzles".

If you'd like options for much harder puzzles, try Danny's DAJ puzzles.

No one will mind if you want to reopen a discussion on any of these.

Keith
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Mindwarp



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sometimes I find them easy sometimes I find them impossible, this particular puzzle just didn't appear to need anything special to solve it. Normally a VH takes me just over 9 minutes to solve when I can do them. I suspect the one I can't solve are ones that involve techniques I haven't learnt.
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Marty R.



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mindwarp wrote:
Sometimes I find them easy sometimes I find them impossible, this particular puzzle just didn't appear to need anything special to solve it. Normally a VH takes me just over 9 minutes to solve when I can do them. I suspect the one I can't solve are ones that involve techniques I haven't learnt.


All VH puzzles here can be solved with nothing more than X-, XY- and XYZ-Wings.
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Mindwarp



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I probably just haven't spotted them ten when i haven't been able to do them. Jan 4's medium puzzle took longer than Jan 3's VH by nearly a minute. I guess it just depends whether you see the key to solving the puzzles.
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Clement



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 5:02 pm    Post subject: Jan 3 VH Reply with quote

Mindwarp
I came with the same Grid as shown by Hughwill above. As you have pointed out ''This particular puzzle didn't need anything special to solve it". Do you mean you solved it from basics only(sweeping)? Can you show how you did it.
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