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		| ravel 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:36 pm    Post subject: VH+ by Pat (game 0039) |   |  
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				| >>> play online 	  | Code: |  	  | +-------+-------+-------+ | . 1 . | 8 . . | . 3 . |
 | 4 . . | . 1 . | . . 6 |
 | . . . | . . 3 | . . . |
 +-------+-------+-------+
 | 2 . . | . 8 . | 4 . . |
 | . 8 . | 5 . 9 | . 7 . |
 | . . 7 | . 6 . | . . 1 |
 +-------+-------+-------+
 | . . . | 2 . . | . . . |
 | 7 . . | . 9 . | . . 4 |
 | . 3 . | . . 5 | . 1 . |
 +-------+-------+-------+ Pat
 
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		| nataraj 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:28 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I think this puzzle needs an x-wing on 2 (cols 2,8). 
 After that, one can either go the multi-coloring way (on 5),
 or use 2 connected xy-wings (25-29-59 and 25-59-29 in boxes 2,3) and a remote pair 59 (the chain looks simple enough: 59-59-59-59) to solve this baby.
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		| storm_norm 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:44 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| that xy-chain should solve it, nataraj 
 or at least another piece of it to go along.
 
 
  	  | Code: |  	  | .------------------.------------------.------------------. | 569   1     2569 | 8     25    4    | 2579  3     579  |
 | 4     25    3    | 9     1     7    | 258   258   6    |
 | 589   7     2589 | 6     25    3    | 1     4     59   |
 :------------------+------------------+------------------:
 | 2     6    #59   | 7     8     1    | 4    #59    3    |
 | 3     8     1    | 5     4     9    | 6     7     2    |
 | 59    4     7    | 3     6     2    | 58    589   1    |
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 | 1     9     4    | 2     3     68   | 57   #56    578  |
 | 7    #25   2-58  | 1     9     68   | 3    #26    4    |
 | 68    3     268  | 4     7     5    | 29    1     89   |
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 starting in r4c3 {59}-{59}-{56}-{26}-{25} ending in r8c2 removes the 5 in r8c3
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		| keith 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:16 pm    Post subject: |   |  
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				| This is a very delicious puzzle!  My only unusual move was an extended XY-wing. 
 (Ask me how?)
 
 Keith
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		| Marty R. 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:15 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				|  	  | Quote: |  	  | This is a very delicious puzzle! | 
 Agreed. But I probably needed more moves than anyone else. I played 13 moves, including X-Wing, swordfish, multi-coloring, URs, including a Type 6, W-Wings and XY-Wings, including pincer coloring on both.
 
 The swordfish was my first in perhaps two years. I saw an extended XY-Wing which Keith mentioned, which I learned as XY-Wing Chain, but couldn't do anything with it, even with pincer coloring.
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