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		| daj95376 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 4:49 am    Post subject: Puzzle 10/07/31: A |   |  
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				|  	  | Code: |  	  | +-----------------------+ | . 9 5 | . . 2 | . . 3 |
 | 2 . . | . 3 . | . . 5 |
 | 3 . 6 | . . 5 | . . . |
 |-------+-------+-------|
 | . . . | 3 . . | . 5 . |
 | . 5 . | . 4 1 | . . 6 |
 | 7 . 3 | . 5 . | . 4 2 |
 |-------+-------+-------|
 | . . . | . . . | 5 . 9 |
 | . . . | 2 . 9 | . 3 4 |
 | 9 3 . | . 7 4 | 6 2 1 |
 +-----------------------+
 
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		| peterj 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:58 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| A one-stepper - I'm sure I am going to get its name wrong with all this "kraken" discussion! 
 
  	  | Quote: |  	  | kraken/almost x-wing(7)r15c48 fin (7)r1c7 
 r1c7<>7  then x-wing(7); r237c8<>7
 
 r1c7=7 then (7)r1c7 - (4)r1c7=(4-9)r2c7=(9)r2c8 - (9=7)r5c8; r237c8<>7
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		| daj95376 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 4:51 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				|  	  | peterj wrote: |  	  | A one-stepper - I'm sure I am going to get its name wrong with all this "kraken" discussion! 
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 Peter, that's as perfect a "Kraken" as Mike Barker ever created.
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		| tlanglet 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:23 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Flightless skyscraper (7)r57c8 with transport: (7)r5c4-r4c6=r2c6; r2c3<>7 
 Kraken time again: cell (189)r6c7
 (1)r6c7-r6c2=(1)r8c2; r7c13,r8c5<>1
 (8)r6c7-(8=7)r8c7-(7=1)r8c3; r7c13,r8c5<>1
 (9)r6c7-(9=7)r5c8-r7c8=r8c7-(7=1)r8c3; r7c13,r8c5<>1
 
 ANP(68=9)r6c46-(9=7)r5c4-r12c4=r2c6-r2r2=r3c2-(7=8)r3c9-r12c8=r7c8-(8=7)r8c7-(7=1)r8c3-(1=6)r8c2; r6c2<>6
 
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		| ttt 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:27 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				|  	  | peterj wrote: |  	  | A one-stepper - I'm sure I am going to get its name wrong with all this "kraken" discussion! | 
 
  	  | Code: |  	  | *--------------------------------------------------------------------* | 14     9      5      | 14678  168    2      | 478    1678   3      |
 | 2      1478   147    | 14678  3      678    | 4789   16789  5      |
 | 3      1478   6      | 1478   9      5      | 2      178    78     |
 |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
 | 146    146    9      | 3      2      678    | 178    5      78     |
 | 8      5      2      | 79     4      1      | 3      79     6      |
 | 7      16     3      | 689    5      68     | 189    4      2      |
 |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
 | 146    2      147    | 168    168    3      | 5      78     9      |
 | 5      167    17     | 2      168    9      | 78     3      4      |
 | 9      3      8      | 5      7      4      | 6      2      1      |
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 Very nice find, Peter!
 At present, I don’t think that your move is named: Kraken
   We can present your move as an Almost X-wing: either (X-wing: 7’s)r15c48 or (7)r1c7 => r237c8<>7
 
  	  | Code: |  	  | (X-wing:7’s)r15c48=(7-4)r1c7=(4-9)r2c7=(9)r2c8-(9=7)r5c8 => r237c8<>7 | 
 
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		| daj95376 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 7:08 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				|  	  | ttt wrote: |  	  | At present, I don’t think that your move is named: Kraken | 
 I disagree. However, Mike Barker's edited definition and examples are more complex than I recall him originally making. My recollection is of an example almost identical to the one presented by Peter. Given MB's latest definition and examples, I can see why I haven't encountered a Kraken Fish example in some time.
 
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		| peterj 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:18 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				|  	  | daj95376 wrote: |  	  |  	  | ttt wrote: |  	  | At present, I don’t think that your move is named: Kraken | 
 I disagree.
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 I'll leave you guys to sort it out! I looked at the Sudopedia article but didn't understand the bit about secondary sets and reducing the fish to a lower order fish...
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		| Luke451 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:04 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Part of the problem is that the label "kraken" has been applied to so many different things. To me, "kraken fish" and "kraken unit" (kraken box/cell/column/row) are different techniques that simply share a feature. 
 If you want to get a better idea of what ttt and others call "kraken," check out    this solution path  from Eureka as just one example.  ( ttt post on "15-Jan-2009 11:42 am.)
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		| Marty R. 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:35 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Here's an un-Kraken solution: 
 W-Wing (78)
 ER (7)
 X-Wing (7)
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