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tlanglet
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
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Location: Northern California Foothills
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 Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: VH-Like BrainBashers |
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Here is a puzzle from BrainBashers that is a good VH with some variety.
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|.29|5.1|46.|
|.86|3.2|95.|
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|.43|9.8|51.|
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|.75|1.4|89.|
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|.64|2.3|17.|
|.92|7.5|68.|
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Marty R.
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
Posts: 5770
Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:09 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Here is a puzzle from BrainBashers that is a good VH with some variety. |
It certainly had some variety, although I don't know that all my moves were necessary. I took my usual scattershot approach and used:
| Quote: | | Two W-Wings, plus pincer coloring on the 2nd one, hidden UR, Type 1 UR, multi-coloring, simple coloring and finished it with an XY-Wing with pincer coloring. Alternatively, it could have been finished with a BUG+1. |
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storm_norm
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 1741
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:04 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | .---------------------.---------------------.---------------------.
| 345 35 1 | 48 69 69 | 7 23 238 |
| 37 2 9 | 5 78 1 | 4 6 38 |
| 47 8 6 | 3 47 2 | 9 5 1 |
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| 6 4 3 | 9 2 8 | 5 1 7 |
| 9 1 8 | 6 5 7 | 23 234 234 |
| 2 7 5 | 1 3 4 | 8 9 6 |
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| 58 6 4 | 2 89 3 | 1 7 59 |
| 13 9 2 | 7 14 5 | 6 8 34 |
| 1358 35 7 | 48 14689 69 | 23 234 59 |
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my order,
w-wing {2,3}
x-wing on 3
UR {9,6}
BUG+1 places 4 in r9c5 |
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tlanglet
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
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Location: Northern California Foothills
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Marty, you seemed to have a very long ride with this puzzle.
My solution was very similar to Norm's sequence:
x-wing on <3>
xy on <234>
Type 1 UR <19>
Bug+1
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Marty R.
Joined: 12 Feb 2006
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Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| tlanglet wrote: | Marty, you seemed to have a very long ride with this puzzle.
My solution was very similar to Norm's sequence:
x-wing on <3>
xy on <234>
Type 1 UR <19>
Bug+1
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I don't mind the long rides, I enjoy using a variety of techniques. A possible reason for the long ride might be that both you and Norm used an X-Wing early on. I hate looking for them and do so only as a last resort, so I used everything else I could see and didn't have to resort to them. |
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tlanglet
Joined: 17 Oct 2007
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Location: Northern California Foothills
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Marty R. wrote: |
I don't mind the long rides, I enjoy using a variety of techniques. A possible reason for the long ride might be that both you and Norm used an X-Wing early on. I hate looking for them and do so only as a last resort, so I used everything else I could see and didn't have to resort to them. |
I don't explicitly look for x-wings. but seem to notice them when I am looking at strong links for single digit patterns like skyscrapers, kites, and coloring. The pattern that I do last is ERs; I seem to spend a lot of time with minimal results.
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