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		Clement
 
 
  Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 1113 Location: Dar es Salaam Tanzania
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				 Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 10:42 pm    Post subject: Mar 24 VH | 
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| 7 38 1  | #38 4  2   | 9 5 6 |
 
| 5 4  36 | 7  9  *36  | 1 2 8 |
 
| 2 68 9  | 5  16 168 | 4 3 7 |
 
+---------+-----------+-------+
 
| 6 1  7  | 4  5  9   | 3 8 2 |
 
| 8 5  2  | 13 7  13  | 6 4 9 |
 
| 3 9  4  | *68 2  8-6  | 7 1 5 |
 
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| 4 2  5  | 16 16 7   | 8 9 3 |
 
| 1 7  8  | 9  3  5   | 2 6 4 |
 
| 9 36 36 | 2  8  4   | 5 7 1 |
 
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 | 	  XY-Wing 38-6 pivoted in r1c4; r6c6<>6; stte | 
			 
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		Marty R.
 
 
  Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 5770 Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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				 Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 5:15 am    Post subject:  | 
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				| Look at all the solved cells in that grid. It took a lot of basics just to get to the point where you could start looking  for advanced moves. | 
			 
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		hughwill
 
 
  Joined: 05 Apr 2010 Posts: 424 Location: Birmingham UK
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				 Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:07 am    Post subject: Mar 24 VH | 
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				 	  | Marty R. wrote: | 	 		  | Look at all the solved cells in that grid. It took a lot of basics just to get to the point where you could start looking  for advanced moves. | 	  
 
 
Yes indeed- I guess that the puzzles are constructed in a random way, but
 
we must be due for something more than a 1 stepper soon..... | 
			 
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		dongrave
 
 
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				 Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:28 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				| I used the 168 XYZ-wing with the pivot at r3c6; r2c6<>6 which also solves it.  With so few cells left to solve, I expected there to only be one VH solution. | 
			 
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		George Woods
 
 
  Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 304 Location: Dorset UK
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				 Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:59 pm    Post subject: bug +1 solution | 
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				| Bug + 1 sets r3c6 to 6 | 
			 
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