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		wapati
 
 
  Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 472 Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
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				 Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 3:22 am    Post subject: Finned sword. | 
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				I printed this out and stumbled most of the way through.
 
 
I got stuck,  brain freeze?  I put my position into a solver and saw the "easy" step I missed.  I had already found a whole lot of not very helpful steps   
 
 
Your mileage may vary.    
 
 
 	  | Code: | 	 		  . 9 .|. . .|. . .
 
. . .|. . 7|. . 4
 
. . 4|2 5 .|. 6 1
 
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6 5 .|4 . .|. . 7
 
. 3 1|. . .|6 4 .
 
9 . .|. . 6|. 5 8
 
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3 6 .|. 1 4|7 . .
 
2 . .|6 . .|. . .
 
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		Mogulmeister
 
 
  Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 1151
 
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				 Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 9:03 am    Post subject:  | 
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				 	  | Quote: | 	 		  (89-1)r4c6=(1-8)r1c6=r1c4-(8=9)r7c4-(9=1)r2c4-r6c4=(1)r4c6 
 
 
r4c6 = 1 solves puzzle
 
 
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		ronk
 
 
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				 Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:17 am    Post subject:  | 
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				 	  | Mogulmeister wrote: | 	 		  (89-1)r4c6=(1-8)r1c6=r1c4-(8=9)r7c4-(9=1)r2c4-r6c4=(1)r4c6 
 
 
r4c6 = 1 solves puzzle
 
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You can shorten that by removing a strong inference from each end ... for a different elimination, of course, but it still solves the puzzle. | 
			 
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		Mogulmeister
 
 
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				 Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 10:43 am    Post subject:  | 
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Thanks and indeed Ronk - I did it that way to highlight the contradiction - I'm still in discontinuous loop mode.   | 
			 
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		peterj
 
 
  Joined: 26 Mar 2010 Posts: 974 Location: London, UK
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				 Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 12:24 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				I needed to play a colouring move on 8 to expose a nice ANT !
 
 
 	  | Quote: | 	 		  skyscraper(8); r5c4<>8
 
ANT(357)r569c4 (357=1)r6c4-(1=9)r2c4-(9=3)r3c6; r1c4<>3 | 	 
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		storm_norm
 
 
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				 Posted: Sun May 30, 2010 8:58 pm    Post subject:  | 
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				 	  | Code: | 	 		  +--------------+--------------------+----------+
 
| 15  9   6    | 13(8)  4    3-1(8) | 35  7  2 |
 
| 15  2   3    | (19)   6    7      | 59  8  4 |
 
| 78  78  4    | 2      5    39     | 39  6  1 |
 
+--------------+--------------------+----------+
 
| 6   5   28   | 4      89   189    | 12  3  7 |
 
| 78  3   1    | 578    278  258    | 6   4  9 |
 
| 9   4   27   | 137    37   6      | 12  5  8 |
 
+--------------+--------------------+----------+
 
| 3   6   89   | (89)   1    4      | 7   2  5 |
 
| 2   78  5789 | 6      789  589    | 4   1  3 |
 
| 4   1   57   | 357    237  235    | 8   9  6 |
 
+--------------+--------------------+----------+ | 	  
 
(1=9)r2c4 - (9=8)r7c4 - (8)r1c4 = (8)r1c6; r1c6 <> 1 | 
			 
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