), occurring periodically or more likely sporadically and consisting of of a puzzle at a point where there are some interesting patterns. While these may be puzzles I've already completely solved (or maybe not), there is not any hidden surprise or backdoor (at least not that I know of) or some other trick awaiting and I certainly haven't made any exhaustive search for all possible interesting patterns (so I hope to learn something also). It is simply an interesting puzzle. There are no rules, but hopefully, people will resist the urge to run it through a computer solver. So feel free to post any interesting pattern/chain you come up with (or solve the rest of the puzzle if you want).Extreme #114 ER=7.2, a few moves past the ssts point:
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| 7 128 4 | 18 5 189 | 6 3 129 |
| 58 125 9 | 36 4 36 | 18 7 12 |
| 3 18 6 | 189 2 7 | 5 48 49 |
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| 59 6 2 | 7 8 49 | 3 145 145 |
| 1 45 7 | 26 3 26 | 49 459 8 |
| 89 48 3 | 49 1 5 | 2 6 7 |
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| 6 7 8 | 1245 9 124 | 14 1245 3 |
| 24 9 1 | 23458 6 2348 | 7 2458 45 |
| 24 3 5 | 1248 7 1248 | 1489 12489 6 |
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Note edit: A typo resulted in my not entering one digit: Note that r4c9 contains 145 not 15.
