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		George Woods
 
 
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				 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:41 pm    Post subject: Can anyone help identify my solution;s typr? | 
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| 1   4   7   | 6   89 3   | 5    289  289  |
 
| 9   2   3   | 145 48 15  | 7    6    48   |
 
| 8   5   6   | 47  2  79  | 49   3    1    |
 
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| 4   6   29  | 3   7  8   | 129  129  5    |
 
| 27  3   1   | 9   5  4   | 6    278  28   |
 
| 5   79  8   | 2   1  6   | 49   479  3    |
 
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| 3   19  249 | 145 6  159 | 8    1249 7    |
 
| 267 8   249 | 147 3  179 | 1249 5    2469 |
 
| 67  179 5   | 8   49 2   | 3    149  469  |
 
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Play this puzzle online at the Daily Sudoku site
 
 
This is as far as I get with "conventional' techniques with the Brainbashers Jan 26 Superhard (and incidentally DS draw/play agrees)
 
 
My solution is to note that there are two positins for 7 in box 6 and whichever is chosen we get r3c7 =9 and that solves the puzzle - So what family does this logic belong to? | 
			 
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		Marty R.
 
 
  Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 5770 Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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				 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Can anyone help identify my solution;s typr? | 
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+-------------+------------+----------------+
 
| 1   4   7   | 6   89 3   | 5    289  289  |
 
| 9   2   3   | 145 48 15  | 7    6    48   |
 
| 8   5   6   | 47  2  79  | 49   3    1    |
 
+-------------+------------+----------------+
 
| 4   6   29  | 3   7  8   | 129  129  5    |
 
| 27  3   1   | 9   5  4   | 6    278  28   |
 
| 5   79  8   | 2   1  6   | 49   479  3    |
 
+-------------+------------+----------------+
 
| 3   19  249 | 145 6  159 | 8    1249 7    |
 
| 267 8   249 | 147 3  179 | 1249 5    2469 |
 
| 67  179 5   | 8   49 2   | 3    149  469  |
 
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Play this puzzle online at the Daily Sudoku site
 
 
This is as far as I get with "conventional' techniques with the Brainbashers Jan 26 Superhard (and incidentally DS draw/play agrees)
 
 
There is a naked pair (49) in c7, but I don't know if it's of any significance.
 
 
My solution is to note that there are two positins for 7 in box 6 and whichever is chosen we get r3c7 =9 and that solves the puzzle - So what family does this logic belong to? | 	  
 
 
It looks to me like a Forcing Chain, which some view as trial and error. There is a potential UR on 28 in boxes 36. Either r1c89=9 or r5c8=7. That's the move I would try if I tried to finish this puzzle. | 
			 
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		George Woods
 
 
  Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 304 Location: Dorset UK
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				 Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 5:07 pm    Post subject: forcing chain? trial and error | 
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				| It was the potential Ur in 28 that set me thinking about the 7s in box 6 and putting the 7 such that the UR was potentially there as well as in a place that saves the UR which lead me to my solution. It is very like a wing what with one of two 4s bearing down on the 49 at r3c7 depending on the toggle of the 7s | 
			 
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		dongrave
 
 
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				 Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:43 am    Post subject:  | 
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				Hi George, I call your type of solution a 'Van Hay' solution because he was the first one I saw do it but from what I remember from logic class all those years ago, I'm sure that De Morgan knew it a LONG time before Van Hay did!  A or B; A implies C; B implies C; therefore C.
 
 
A while ago, I sent the exact same question and asked specifically for someone to show me how to represent it in Eureka notation (which I despised at the time).  Marty showed me how it really was the same thing as a forcing chain by beginning with the assumption of the wrong value and then combining the 2 different chains to show the contradiction.  Interesting stuff!  (at least to me.)
 
 
By the way, in your grid, the 48 naked pair in row 2 eliminates the 4 from r2c4 which creates a UR (Type 3) of 15's in r27c46 so r8c4<>4 and r8c6<>9 (because r9c5 is 4 or 9) creating a 17 naked pair in row 8 which also solves it - but I don't think this solution is any better than yours.
 
 
I also noticed that there are a few more basic eliminations missing from your grid but they don't look very important (at least at first glance).  There's also a 49 naked pair in column 7 that removes them from the other rows and there are restricted 7's in box 8 that removes it from r8c1. | 
			 
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		arkietech
 
 
  Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 1834 Location: Northwest Arkansas USA
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				 Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:00 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Skyscraper in c17 solves it   | 
			 
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