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		| wapati 
 
 
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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
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 . 3 1|. . .|6 4 .
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 3 6 .|. 1 4|7 . .
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		| Mogulmeister 
 
 
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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 
 
 
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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 |
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 (1=9)r2c4 - (9=8)r7c4 - (8)r1c4 = (8)r1c6; r1c6 <> 1
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