Thank you for your nice solutions !
jco wrote:It's been a while (I missed a lot!).
Welcome back to the forum, JCO. Happy to read you again !
W/o uniqueness, a single step solution is not that easy. I had this one:
Kraken row (8)r789c9
(8)r7c9 - (8=9)r7c3
(8-2)r8c9 = r8c4 - (2=169)r9c247
(8-3)r9c9=(3)r9c3
=> -9 r9c3; ste
My own solution was rather:
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+------------------+-----------------+---------------------+
| 6 7 1 | 3 2 8 | 5 4 9 |
| 9 2 4 | 7 6 5 | 3 8 1 |
| 3 8 5 | 9 4 1 | 7 2 6 |
+------------------+-----------------+---------------------+
| 4 9 7 | 8 3 6 | 2 1 5 |
| 1 5 6 | 4 9 2 | 8 37* 37* |
| 8 3 2 | 5 1 7 | 69 69 4 |
+------------------+-----------------+---------------------+
| 27* 46 89 | 1 5 3 | 469 #69+7 278* |
| 5 14 38 | 26 78* 9 | 14 367* 2378* |
| 27* 16 389 | 26 78* 4 | 169 5 2378* |
+------------------+-----------------+---------------------+
MUG (2378)r79c1, r89c5, r5c89, b9p3569 using single external => +7 r7c8; ste
(...or using single internal => +6 r8c8; ste)
(Note that 8r7c9 and 3r9c9 are part of the DP, as 0-solution candidates)
jco wrote:DP (641)r789c27 + UR(69)r67c79 => +9 r9c7; ste
(9=16)r9c27 - r9c4 = r8c4 - (6=37)r58c8 - (7)r7c8 =UR,DP=(49)r79c7
Your combination of DP(146)r789c27 with UR(69)r67c79 is another MUG (nice finding, BTW). 9r9c7 could be considered as part of this MUG pattern, (as I did for 8r7c9, 3r9c9 in mine). It is a o-solution for the pattern: if you force r9c7 to 9, then the pattern has two 6s @row 7.
Then you could conclude that your MUG has a single internal => +7 r7c8; ste (or a single external => +6 r8c8; ste)