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		| arkietech 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:24 am    Post subject: Pattern Game 20.22 metcalf 7.1 |   |  
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				|  	  | Code: |  	  | *-----------*
 |1..|2..|3..|
 |...|.7.|.9.|
 |..2|..9|..6|
 |---+---+---|
 |2..|...|4..|
 |.3.|.6.|.1.|
 |..5|...|..3|
 |---+---+---|
 |4..|8..|5..|
 |.6.|.1.|...|
 |..7|..3|..8|
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		| arkietech 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:42 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| no basic moves to start 
  	  | Code: |  	  | *--------------------------------------------------------------------*
 | 1      45789  4689   | 2      458    4568   | 3      4578   457    |
 | 3568   458    3468   | 13456  7      14568  | 128    9      1245   |
 | 3578   4578   2      | 1345   3458   9      | 178    4578   6      |
 |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
 | 2      1789  b1689   | 13579  3589   1578   | 4     a5678   579    |
 | 789    3      489    | 4579   6      24578  | 2789   1      2579   |
 | 6789   14789  5      | 1479   2489   12478  | 26789  2678   3      |
 |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
 | 4      129   c139    | 8      29     267    | 5     d237-6  1279   |
 | 3589   6      389    | 4579   1      2457   | 279    2347   2479   |
 | 59     1259   7      | 4569   2459   3      | 1269   246    8      |
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 L3-wing
 6r4c8=(6-1)r4c3=(1-3)r7c3=3r7c8 => -6r7c8; stte
 
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		| Marty R. 
 
 
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 Location: Rochester, NY, USA
 
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				|  Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:55 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Tried it, too many cells with too many candidates. I made a couple of eliminations from Skyscrapers with pincer transports but that's it. |  | 
	
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		| tlanglet 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:41 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I did not find any one step solution different than that posted by Dan. Like Marty, I found some deletions but not a sequence of steps that solved the puzzle. I am going to save my energies for another puzzle. 
 Ted
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