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		sudocraz
 
 
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				 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:00 am    Post subject: Brainbasher | 
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				Hi All
 
 
Check out BrainBasher's Super Hard Puzzle today.
 
 
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		storm_norm
 
 
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				 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:50 am    Post subject:  | 
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		arkietech
 
 
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				 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:59 am    Post subject:  | 
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				Three steps: 	  | Quote: | 	 		  skyscraper 1
 
xy-wing 837
 
skyscraper 7 | 	 
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		tlanglet
 
 
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				 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:15 am    Post subject:  | 
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				This is a typical BrainBusters VH type puzzle. My two steps were: 	  | Quote: | 	 		  swordfish on 4 in r169c238,
 
xy-wing 26-4 with pivot 26 in r8c3 plus transport of pincer in r8c4 to r7c9 via r7c4.
 
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		keith
 
 
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				 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:19 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				A one-stepper is a 2-46 XYZ-wing in B78.
 
 
Otherwise there are an X-wing and a Swordfish to be found.
 
 
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		arkietech
 
 
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				 Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:41 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				 	  | keith wrote: | 	 		  A one-stepper is a 2-46 XYZ-wing in B78.
 
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		keith
 
 
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				 Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:51 am    Post subject:  | 
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				 	  | arkietech wrote: | 	 		   	  | keith wrote: | 	 		  A one-stepper is a 2-46 XYZ-wing in B78.
 
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Nice Find!    | 	  
 
 
Thank you! I notice that the BB solution is X-wing, Swordfish, XY-wing.  The XY-wing is actually the remnant of my XYZ-wing, making the critical elimination of <4> in R8C1.
 
 
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