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Difficulty: Expert Thursday, March 5, 2009

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CHAT LOG for Thursday, March 5, 2009

12:33 am
Ed-was_here

Go
12:34 am
Sudokay

Done
12:52 am
tropiske

Done, no greens, but 1 guess.
1:05 am
trueheart11

go
1:10 am
WHB

Done
1:13 am
trueheart11

stop
1:31 am
trueheart11

go
1:35 am
Ed-was_here

Done with greens
1:39 am
trueheart11

done. no greens
1:50 am
birdiepeikko

start
1:55 am
eyeman

clickety-click done on the reds.
2:51 am
MrOoijer

more like a hard
3:59 am
herinfernallady

go
5:04 am
Phil

START
5:27 am
Phil

done, no greens, second guess
5:42 am
kaosangel

Morning. Go.
5:55 am
kaosangel

Done. No Greens.
6:46 am
kixx

go
7:50 am
kixx

done, with greens, finally
8:40 am
Andy

go
8:50 am
yul

hello everybody
8:50 am
Andy

hi
8:53 am
Onpaki

HELLO
9:01 am
Andy

Done. I had to eviscerate my cat and read her entrails to solve this one.
9:01 am
Andy

[Note: no actual cats were harmed in the solving of this puzzle. Andy just has some trouble with filters and boundaries in his online chatting at times.]
9:09 am
yul

back to puzzle... hello Onpaki
10:57 am
K.Elisabet

I've got 21 filled in and am stuck...
11:01 am
drwho

Difficulty score 42. No green, yet. But I have 16 filled and am thinking I won't get any more without green.
11:15 am
KnightTime

i have the same 21 filled in and a bunch of redundant entries
11:23 am
gman

21 filled also Drwho you there?
11:32 am
Inge

same here, previous guesses turned out bummers
11:37 am
Inge

I did it, I did it. Third guess was the good one.
12:23 pm
RodeoRogue

go
12:55 pm
ypsigirl

done
1:15 pm
hokie carla

I got lucky & picked right the very first time.
2:14 pm
sandbox74

commence
2:21 pm
sandbox74

have to go for now.. going back a bit later
4:08 pm
drwho

gman, I'm back.
4:44 pm
Minski

Done quickly with greens and one lucky guess.
4:48 pm
K.Elisabet

Back again... is there any technique other than guessing to get past 21?
5:22 pm
KnightTime

the key subgrid is the center right one - get it and the puzzle unlocks
5:35 pm
sandbox74

ok.. commence again...
5:48 pm
katmama

17 filled...not sure i'll get much further without greens (or even with them, for that matter!)!
6:00 pm
katmama

stuck at 21 even with greens...
6:00 pm
sandbox74

terminate.. no greens
6:01 pm
sandbox74

oops.. i meant with greens... naughty naughty
6:01 pm
katmama

dang sandbox! well done!
6:01 pm
katmama

then i take it back...
6:01 pm
katmama

just kidding - still well done!
6:16 pm
drwho

After 21, I found a forcing chain and a naked triple to solve it.
6:17 pm
drwho

Actually I could have done without the naked triple if I had crosshatched a column.
6:41 pm
angieplumptit

Responds well to the Feldheimer reverse
6:45 pm
daneel

uhoh - diving into this one from the comments sounds like fun
7:15 pm
Zugzug7

a well placed 1 and 4 and this was a piece of cake. Of course I had to make a guess to place that 1 and 4.
7:46 pm
K.Elisabet

I don't know the name of the technique but there's a rectangular formation with pairs where one corner's "either/or" forces the opposite corner to be a particular value. Is that a forcing chain?
7:49 pm
K.Elisabet

Whatever it's called, now I'm stuck at 22. Progress!
7:52 pm
helenkeller

go
8:34 pm
helenkeller

no green
8:52 pm
daneel

done, no greens, bunch of work interruptions
10:04 pm
Fizzbut

going late
10:27 pm
Fizzbut

done no green.