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prakash
Joined: 02 Jan 2008
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Location: New Jersey, USA
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 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:53 am Post subject: July 15 "very hard" medium at best |
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| This did not require any advanced techniques. Was a big dissapointment. Checkt the solution twice and I couldn't find any mistakes. |
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Marty R.
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Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| Same here; all basics. |
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Kdelle
Joined: 20 Mar 2008
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Location: Hudson, NH
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| And I agree! It was so easy I thought I'd made a mistake. |
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cgordon
Joined: 04 May 2007
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Location: ontario, canada
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:22 am Post subject: |
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Ohh Kay.........
I guess there's no point in showing you my Unique Rectangle or my little x wing. Put them away, you say - back to the drawing board and the basics. |
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cgordon
Joined: 04 May 2007
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Location: ontario, canada
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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OK again: I played a round of golf - had a couple of pints - then revisited this "Medium at best". I give up - what's the next basic and non-VH step.
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+------------+-------------+--------------+
| 68 2 678 | 467 5 9 | 1 3 48 |
| 1 69 6789 | 467 3 67 | 2 48 5 |
| 5 4 3 | 8 2 1 | 7 6 9 |
+------------+-------------+--------------+
| 2 8 15 | 9 16 3 | 456 45 7 |
| 4 3 15 | 16 7 28 | 568 9 268 |
| 7 69 69 | 5 4 28 | 3 1 28 |
+------------+-------------+--------------+
| 3 7 68 | 2 69 4 | 5689 58 1 |
| 9 15 4 | 167 8 567 | 56 2 3 |
| 68 15 2 | 3 169 56 | 45689 7 468 |
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stevieboy
Joined: 25 Jan 2008
Posts: 31
Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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The next steps that I see are the 2 separate Unique Rectangles:
The '<28> in rows 5 and 6, and the <69> in columns 2 and 3...after that, I believe that you're home free.
Still, I sure wish that I was golfing today...beautiful in Michigan! |
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zx
Joined: 21 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Check your 5s in boxes 7/8/9. That should clear some things up. |
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cgordon
Joined: 04 May 2007
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Location: ontario, canada
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Stevieboy: Your solutions are VH techniques
ZX: Unless I am mistaken you are refering to an x-wing on 5. Again a VH thing.
The above posts state that the puzzle does NOT need VH techniques and can be solved by basics only. There's the rub! |
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nataraj
Joined: 03 Aug 2007
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Location: near Vienna, Austria
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Craig,
the 5s in row 7 are confined to square 9, that removes 5 from r8c7,r9c7 |
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cgordon
Joined: 04 May 2007
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Location: ontario, canada
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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yeah right....
I wasn't my fault - it was them two pints. |
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sudocraz
Joined: 28 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| It was really an easy puzzle, just basics. I didn't even have to practice with Unique Recs or x wings. |
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