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[Earl]

Take you pick of two very evident one-shot solutions.


Solutions: 137 xy-wing or 17 UR


Early Earl

PS I would like to suggest adding a level of difficulty above VH to challenge those who have developed advanced skills over the past few years. This is a good forum with competent participants who may soon be looking elsewhere for a challenge. Thanks.

[cgordon]

[tlanglet]

I find that the puzzles in the sub-forum "Posted by daj" are consistently at the VH+ level. Also, I can't recall the last time I solved one of Danny's puzzles with a single VH step; some have taken me 10 - 12 steps of VH and VH+.

I definitely encourage you to try them.............

Ted

[Wendy W]

Earl, Thanks for saying this, and I agree with you, though given my recent trouble with skyscrapers I hesitate to classify myself as "competent"! Ted, I will definitely try the DAJ puzzles.

[storm_norm]

I went out on a limb here and made a live stream of how I solved the puzzle. its nothing fancy, its nothing professional, but hey, why not.
its a video of my desktop with the draw/play tool open. I do use the auto sweep feature and I basically talk myself through the puzzle.

the livestream will play on forever, but you can replay any video anytime by clicking on the video in the "latest videos" section.

http://www.livestream.com/storm_normsudoku

all comments are welcome

[Luke451]

Way cool, Norm! I wasn't surprised to find you sound nothing like Norman Schwarzkopf...

It would be interesting to see your approach to an Extreme/Challenge level puzzle. I often wonder about the process that others use to identify and target a puzzle's vulnerabilities.

[storm_norm]

I'll have approaches to other puzzles posted hopefully soon. the trick is to get the video short enough to be more interesting than watching paint dry.