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abc abc abc
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abc abc abc
Which would end up as one of the following six BUG-lites:
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ab bc ac ab ac bc ac ab bc
-------- -------- --------
ab bc ac ab ac bc ac ab bc
ac bc ab bc ab ac bc ac ab
-------- -------- --------
ac bc ab bc ab ac bc ac ab
Personally, I dislike the term MUG because a) after solving the rest of the puzzle we would be left with a BUG, not a MUG and b) there's similar patterns that should belong to the same category, but only have two deadly candidates per cell. Example:
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ab ab ab
. . .
. . .
--------
ab ab ab
. . .
. . .
--------
ab ab ab
. . .
. . .
Which would end up as one of the following six BUG-lites:
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ab . ab ab . ab ab ab . ab ab . . ab ab . ab ab
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
ab ab . . ab ab ab . ab . ab ab ab . ab ab ab .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
. ab ab ab ab . . ab ab ab . ab ab ab . ab . ab
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I've used to call all of these just BUG-lites but that seems to confuse people too, so now I propose a new name: layered BUG-lites. This category should include all patterns that can be seen as several BUG-lites on top of each other in layers.
Other possible layered BUG-lites:
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ab . . |ab . ab ab . . |ab . . ab . . |. . ab
. . . |. . . . . . |. . . . . . |. . .
ab . . |ab . ab ab . . |. . ab ab . . |ab . .
--------+-------- = ---------+-------- or ---------+--------
|ab . ab |ab . ab |ab . ab
|. . . |. . . |. . .
|. . . |. . . |. . .
abc abc . ab ab . ab ab . ac ac . ac ac . bc bc . bc bc .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
--------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
abc abc . ac ac . bc bc . ab ab . bc bc . ab ab . ac ac .
. . . = . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
--------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
abc abc . bc bc . ac ac . bc bc . ab ab . ac ac . ab ab .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
There is of course several more 'layered BUG-lite' patterns, but I think I listed the most common. And finally some real examples:
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..........371.629..5..9..1..9.5.3.2...8.6.9...4.9.7.3..8..3..4..612.458........6.
*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
|*26 1 9 | 37 245 -258 |*368 57 *45678 |
| 8 3 7 | 1 45 6 | 2 9 45 |
|*26 5 4 | 37 9 -28 |*368 1 *678 |
|----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
| 17 9 6 | 5 8 3 | 4 2 17 |
| 3 27 8 | 4 6 12 | 9 57 157 |
| 15 4 25 | 9 12 7 |*68 3 *68 |
|----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
| 57 8 25 | 6 3 19 | 17 4 29 |
| 9 6 1 | 2 7 4 | 5 8 3 |
| 4 27 3 | 8 15 159 | 17 6 29 |
*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
r13c6<>2
1...6.....8.5.7....6..8.3.....9..23.2...14..........967.6.....4.......1..9.2.6..7
*-----------------------------------------------------------*
| 1 27 257 | 34 6 239 |*578 -4578 2589 |
| 4 8 3 | 5 29 7 | 1 6 29 |
| 9 6 257 | 14 8 12 | 3 457 25 |
|-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
| 6 47 478 | 9 57 58 | 2 3 1 |
| 2 3 9 | 6 1 4 |*578 *578 58 |
| 5 1 78 | 38 27 238 | 4 9 6 |
|-------------------+-------------------+-------------------|
| 7 5 6 | 18 3 18 | 9 2 4 |
| 8 24 24 | 7 59 59 | 6 1 3 |
| 3 9 1 | 2 4 6 |*58 *58 7 |
*-----------------------------------------------------------*
r1c8<>578
(also r1c789<>5)
.9..8..7....3...5265.4.....8.7..31.61........9..8.4.......6.4.778..........2.....
*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
| 2 9 1 | 6 8 5 | 3 7 4 |
| 4 7 8 | 3 9 1 | 6 5 2 |
| 6 5 3 | 4 7 2 |*89 *189 *189 |
|----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
| 8 24 7 | 9 5 3 | 1 24 6 |
| 1 34 45 | 7 2 6 |*589 *3489 *3589 |
| 9 236 256 | 8 1 4 | 7 23 35 |
|----------------------+----------------------+----------------------|
| 35 12 29 | 15 6 8 | 4 139 7 |
| 7 8 46 | 15 34 9 | 2 136 135 |
| 35 146 469 | 2 34 7 |-589 -13689 -13589 |
*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
r9c789<>9
..8.....693.....2..62.1.9...8.9.27...7.....9...97.6.1...7.5.46..9.....351.....8..
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
| 457 145 8 | 2345 23479 34579 | 135 457 6 |
| 9 3 145 | 4568 4678 4578 | 15 2 1478 |
| 457 6 2 | 3458 1 34578 | 9 4578 3478 |
|-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------|
| 3456 8 13456 | 9 *34 2 | 7 45 *34 |
| 23456 7 13456 | 13458 *348 13458 |-2356 9 *2348 |
| 2345 245 9 | 7 *348 6 |-235 1 *2348 |
|-------------------------+-------------------------+-------------------------|
| 238 2 7 | 1238 5 1389 | 4 6 -129 |
| 2468 9 46 | 12468 24678 1478 | 12 3 5 |
| 1 245 3456 | 2346 234679 3479 | 8 7 -279 |
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
r56c7<>2 and r79c9<>2
(First three puzzles are from the Effortless Extremes thread. First puzzle is an edited version of a puzzle by Ocean, the second and third were posted by Mike Barker. The fourth puzzle is a Solo-unreasonable.)
RW