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		Marty R.
 
 
  Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 5770 Location: Rochester, NY, USA
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				 Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:39 am    Post subject: Feb. 26 VH | 
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				Hmmm, I'm earlier than "Early Earl."    
 
 
 	  | Quote: | 	 		  | A Type 4 UR on 36 left a BUG+1 or an XY-Wing on 561. There may have been other moves too. | 	 
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		Earl
 
 
  Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 677 Location: Victoria, KS
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				 Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:57 am    Post subject: Feb 26 VH | 
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				An xyz-wing (136) solves it in one step.  Look out for the apparent UR (13) which is invalid.  The UR (36) demands that R7C6 be <8>, which also solves the puzzle in one step.  Coloring in <1> is also a single stepper.
 
 
Earl
 
Late, but not lost.
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		crunched
 
 
  Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 168
 
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				 Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:34 am    Post subject:  | 
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				I had to have an xy wing of 1-3-9;
 
Then an x-wing of 3s in columns 3,6;
 
Then an xy wing of 1-3-6
 
I see the 1-3-6 xyz wing now, but did not see it when I worked the puzzle.
 
 
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| 2   6   13 | 5   7  13  | 4 8 9 |
 
| 35  359 4  | 39  28 28  | 6 1 7 |
 
| 7   19  8  | 19  4  6   | 5 3 2 |
 
+------------+------------+-------+
 
| 1   7   5  | 8   3  9   | 2 6 4 |
 
| 4   39  39 | 2   6  5   | 8 7 1 |
 
| 8   2   6  | 4   1  7   | 9 5 3 |
 
+------------+------------+-------+
 
| 9   15  2  | 7   58 18  | 3 4 6 |
 
| 36  8   7  | 36  9  4   | 1 2 5 |
 
| 356 4   13 | 136 25 123 | 7 9 8 |
 
+------------+------------+-------+
 
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		cgordon
 
 
  Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 769 Location: ontario, canada
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				 Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:28 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				It's all about numero uno.
 
 
You can ER it using C2, Box2 to remove <1> in R7C6 or R1, Box8 to remove R9C3.
 
 
You can also Skyscraper it to remove <1> in R1C6 or R9C4. | 
			 
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		tlanglet
 
 
  Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 2468 Location: Northern California Foothills
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				 Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:52 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				Simple coloring on <1> reduces it to singles all the way ......
 
 
Ted
 
 
Edit: I did not see your comment Earl. | 
			 
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		DennyOR
 
 
  Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Portland, Oregon
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				 Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:07 am    Post subject:  | 
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				And from a chain-ganger:
 
 
18-85-51-19-91 | 
			 
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