sometimes I try to solve Sudokus from the Level 7,1 in the Sudoku-Explainer, which contain a lot of strategies of defined patterns like wings or fishes or pairs below the irregular chain-level but including one forcing chain. I try to avoid that forcing chain in this case.
Here is a sudoku where I was expecting to find some finned fish or half rectangles to solve the sudoku. But actually I found no alternative to a forcing chain. Do you find one?
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- .........
 .5..48.7.
 ..29..1..
 .2..3.9..
 .1.6.5.4.
 ..7.2..8.
 ..9..72..
 .6.19..5.
 .........
And here is the grid solved until the forcing chain comes:
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- *-----------*
 |.96|713|.25|
 |.5.|248|679|
 |..2|956|13.|
 |---+---+---|
 |.2.|831|967|
 |918|675|342|
 |637|429|581|
 |---+---+---|
 |..9|..7|21.|
 |.6.|19.|.5.|
 |...|...|.9.|
 *-----------*
 
 *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
 | 48 9 6 | 7 1 3 | 48 2 5 |
 | 13 5 13 | 2 4 8 | 6 7 9 |
 | 478 478 2 | 9 5 6 | 1 3 48 |
 |----------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------------|
 | 45 2 45 | 8 3 1 | 9 6 7 |
 | 9 1 8 | 6 7 5 | 3 4 2 |
 | 6 3 7 | 4 2 9 | 5 8 1 |
 |----------------------------+----------------------------+----------------------------|
 | 3458 48 9 | 35 68 7 | 2 1 346 |
 | 237 6 34 | 1 9 24 | 478 5 348 |
 | 12578 478 15 | 35 68 24 | 47 9 346 |
 *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*
I hope you enjoy the puzzle
 
 Claudia


