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[re'born]

There is a robust Jellyfish in this puzzle, as well as many smaller patterns.

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. . 3 | . . . | . . 1
. 9 4 | . . . | . . .
. 7 . | 2 . 4 | 9 3 .
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. . . | . 3 . | 8 . 7
. 2 . | 4 . 8 | . 9 .
3 . 6 | . 9 . | . . .
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. 4 2 | 3 . 7 | . 8 .
. . . | . . . | 5 7 .
7 . . | . . . | 4 . .


After the basics, we get:

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 *--------------------------------------------------------------------*
 | 28     56     3      | 569    78     569    | 27     4      1      |
 | 12568  9      4      | 156    15678  3      | 267    256    568    |
 | 1568   7      15     | 2      1568   4      | 9      3      568    |
 |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
 | 4      15A    9      | 156    3      1256   | 8      1256   7      |
 | 15a    2      7      | 4      156A   8      | 3      9      56     |
 | 3      8      6      | 7      9      125    | 12     125    4      |
 |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
 | 156    4      2      | 3      15-    7      | 16c    8      9      |
 | 9      3      18     | 168    4      16     | 5      7      2      |
 | 7      156a   158    | 1589   2      159    | 4      16C    3      |
 *--------------------------------------------------------------------*


where a little multicoloring implies r7c5<>1.
[r7c5]-1-[r7c7]=1=[r9c8]-1-[r9c2]=1=[r4c2]-1-[r5c1]=1=[r5c5]-1-[r7c5]

But r7c5=5 implies r7c1<>5 and now we get an xy-chain:
6-[r9c2]-1-[r7c7]-6-[r7c1]-1-[r5c1]-5-[r9c5]-6, => r4c8<>6, which solves the puzzle.

[ravel]

See also my solution at the end of the short chains thread.

[wapati]

A large bag of methods. Quite a few, but not big fish category. (OK, maybe a finned swordfish.}

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. 6 .|. 9 .|. 7 .
. . .|. 5 .|3 . 1
2 . .|. . 3|. . .
-----+-----+-----
7 . .|9 . .|. 1 3
. . .|. 6 .|. . .
1 9 .|. . 5|. . 2
-----+-----+-----
. . .|2 . .|. . 9
3 . 4|. 1 .|. . .
. 1 .|. 7 .|. 2 .


[re'born]

A large bag of methods. Quite a few, but not big fish category. (OK, maybe a finned swordfish.}

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 *-----------------------------------------------------------*
 | 458   6     3     | 4A8a  9     1     | 2     7     5-48  |
 | 489   478   789   | 6     5     2     | 3     4a8A  1     |
 | 2     458   1     | 7     48    3     | 4589  59    6     |
 |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
 | 7     458   568   | 9     2     48    | 4568  1     3     |
 | 458   3     2     | 1     6     7     | 4589  59    458   |
 | 1     9     68    | 4a8A  3     5     | 7     4A68  2     |
 |-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
 | 568   578   578   | 2     48    468   | 1     3     9     |
 | 3     2     4     | 5     1     9     | 68    68    7     |
 | 689   1     89    | 3     7     68    | 45    2     45    |
 *-----------------------------------------------------------*


A little 3D coloring implies r1c9<>4,8. This solves the puzzle. Note that the elimination of 8 can be seen as a Y-wing style, while the elimination of the 4 is just a skyscraper.

[wapati]

Whew, I didn't expect such a fast solution.

This is also pretty good.

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. . .|. 4 .|. . .
. 4 .|2 . 7|. 6 .
. 3 .|1 . 9|. 5 .
-----+-----+-----
. . 2|. . .|7 . .
3 . .|5 . 8|. . 1
. 8 .|. 7 .|. 3 .
-----+-----+-----
. 5 3|6 . 2|8 7 .
. 7 9|. . .|3 2 .
. . .|. 3 .|. . .


[re'born]

Whew, I didn't expect such a fast solution.

This is also pretty good.

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. . .|. 4 .|. . .
. 4 .|2 . 7|. 6 .
. 3 .|1 . 9|. 5 .
-----+-----+-----
. . 2|. . .|7 . .
3 . .|5 . 8|. . 1
. 8 .|. 7 .|. 3 .
-----+-----+-----
. 5 3|6 . 2|8 7 .
. 7 9|. . .|3 2 .
. . .|. 3 .|. . .


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 *--------------------------------------------------------------------*
 | 25679  1269   156    | 3      4      56     | 129    189    2789   |
 | 589    4      158    | 2      58     7      | 19     6      3      |
 | 27     3      68     | 1      68     9      | 4      5      27     |
 |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
 | 4569   169    2      | 49     16     3      | 7      89     5689   |
 | 3      69     7      | 5      2      8      | 69     4      1      |
 | 4569   8      1456   | 49     7      16     | 2569   3      2569   |
 |----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
 | 1      5      3      | 6      9      2      | 8      7      4      |
 | 46     7      9      | 8      15     145    | 3      2      56     |
 | 2468   26     468    | 7      3      45     | 1569   19     569    |
 *--------------------------------------------------------------------*


After the basics, one can simultaneously find two empty rectangles, one on 6 (box 1), which implies r6c3<>6, and one on 9 (box 3) that implies r1c2<>9. After cleaning up the resulting mess, a short xy-chain
4-[r6c3]-1-[r6c6]-6-[r1c6]-5-[r9c6]-4, =>r9c3<>4
solves the puzzle.

[wapati]

There should be a swordfish here, finned or not, depending on your method order.

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. 4 8|1 . 9|5 7 .
9 . .|. 7 .|. . 1
. . .|4 5 3|. . .
-----+-----+-----
. . 3|. . .|2 . .
1 . .|. . .|. . 7
5 2 .|. . .|. 6 3
-----+-----+-----
. 8 .|2 . 4|. 5 .
. . 9|. . .|6 . .
. . .|. 1 .|. . .


[wapati]

Because of the new owners, I won't post here.

If you care, my thread is moved to:

http://www.setbb.com/sudoku/viewtopic.php?t=1432&mforum=sudoku

I will not be reading, or posting here.


It is the new owners format I protest. And it sucks.

I do not care who owns this place, I very much dislike the visual change.
To the point I will not read or post here.


Edited to deliniate my position.

[Mauricio]

You should try http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/index.php , and then the forum is back to normal.

Edit: The comma was interfering with the link.

[Havard]

Becuase of the new owners, I won't post here.

If you care, my thread is moved to:

http://www.setbb.com/sudoku/viewtopic.php?t=1432&mforum=sudoku

I will not be reading, or posting here.

wapati got a point. A lot of people put in a lot of effort into this place, all knowing it is for the greater good of sudoku. I think people might think twice about contributing if they know that their efforts are making someone else money...

Owning the domainname sudoku.com should be enough in itself. Please let us have this forum for ourselves before it becomes destroyed forever...

Havard

[udosuk]

Mauricio, your link is a dead link. The correct url should be like the following:

http://www.sudoku.com/boards

or

http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/index.php


Too bad wapati is gone because of a minor change. I'll stay put for now and see if there are other changes and see if those changes (if any) are drastical enough to drive me from here.

After all I think "sudoku.com" is the main reason this huge community is established (other than the great software from Wayne Gould and his son Scott). If not for the domain name I doubt if it would be so much bigger than the setbb forum (for programmers) or other forums such as djape's forum or Ruuds' SudoCue forum.

[ronk]

Too bad wapati is gone because of a minor change. I'll stay put for now and see if there are other changes and see if those changes (if any) are drastical enough to drive me from here.

For now I'm staying too, and I wouldn't be surprised if wapati returns. The community on the Programmers' Forum (setbb.com) is not very active, and the site seems much slower. Of course, things might change there too.

[claudiarabia]

This sudoku isn't very symmetric, but has a lot of techniques inside - except forcing chains. I rarely saw a sudoku in my whole life, which combine so many strategies below the forcing chain.

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6 . 7 . 8 . 5 . 3
. 9 . . . . . 8 .
4 . . . . . . . 6
. . . 4 . . . . .
5 . . 2 . 1 . . 4
9 . . . . 3 . . 8
3 . . . . . . . 7
. . . . . . . 6 .
7 . 5 . 1 . 8 . 9


SE 6.6 X-Wing, Swordfish, Hidden Triplet, Unique Rectangle Type 1 and 3, Turbot Fish, 4 xy-wings, a JELLYFISH and a UNIQUE LOOP TYPE 3 (Buglite)!

I also feel sorry that the chains-not-required-threads are so often interrupted by those empty failure-pages in the end. Either you ignore these pages and post your sudokus in the last before page. Then the failure-page will remain but in the end it doesn't affect the thread severely. Or some of the Admins mould the various wapati-no-chain-threads together in a thread which is not affected by this error. So we would have a big nice collection of no-chain-puzzles.

Happy solving

Claudia