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12:30 am
eyeman
think I did it.
12:30 am
trueheart11
done. no greens
12:31 am
eyeman
Did it. No greens. Red helped me.
1:06 am
Ed-was_here
Done with greens
3:04 am
birdiepeikko
start
5:40 am
kixx
done, with greens
6:17 am
kaosangel
Morning. Go.
6:30 am
kaosangel
Done. No Greens. Was a good challenge.
9:46 am
yul
done. without green
10:20 am
Runnerbean
got my stupid head on today...
10:51 am
lk911
that was a tough nut to crack!
10:56 am
Runnerbean
still not moved
1:03 pm
ypsigirl
done ha ha
1:31 pm
dalebo
Is this one hard or what?????
2:11 pm
drwho
I think it is hard, but my difficulty score is only 29!
2:12 pm
drwho
I have resorted to green and it is still looking tough.
2:20 pm
hokie carla
yes, I am doing my partial greens and still getting nothin'.
2:21 pm
drwho
It would help if I could fill in the green numbers correctly.
2:22 pm
hokie carla
yes, I have had that problem more than once.
2:22 pm
torgone
There's a bottom left number that opens up a lot ..
2:25 pm
drwho
Is it a number in the range from 1 to 9?
2:26 pm
hokie carla
gee, I hope so
2:28 pm
drwho
I like to think outside the box.
2:28 pm
torgone
Think in the center column ..
2:31 pm
torgone
And that was it ..
2:31 pm
hokie carla
This is just too much green. I'm starting over.
2:41 pm
hokie carla
well, that didn't really help
2:46 pm
drwho
My difficulty score program agrees that this should be ranked "Hard", but I am going to resort to "Expert" techniques to solve this one.
2:49 pm
hokie carla
I think I'm going to have to resort to plugging and hoping for the best. :-) Or maybe I'll go get a snack & then see if I can think any better.
3:35 pm
fit1
Where do you find the difficulty rankings, and where do you find the techniques to solve? I have been solving fairly steadily using greens
3:36 pm
hokie carla
drwho comes up with them. you can click on his profile & find a link.
3:38 pm
hokie carla
"them" being the difficulty score. not sure where the techniques are.
3:39 pm
drwho
There are some explanations of techniques at my web site too. The only expert technique I have explained there is the Alternating Inference Chain technique. In theory you shouldn't need it for this puzzle.
3:53 pm
hokie carla
Good grief, that was ugly. I think I had to use 3 check points. I must have a different style of play not conducive to that one, because I thought it was much worse than the experts and super-hard mediums.
3:54 pm
drwho
I think there is a hidden triple that I overlooked that is the key to the whole thing.
4:16 pm
sandbox74
commence
4:17 pm
drwho
There is a fairly obvious hidden pair I missed, but that doesn't break things open by itself.
4:20 pm
drwho
Actually, the hidden pair does break things open in an indirect way! There was also a hidden triple that I did see, but that wasn't much help in solving this one.
4:49 pm
sandbox74
terminate.. no greens
4:50 pm
sandbox74
that hurt the brain cells a bit
6:22 pm
K M
slowly but surely ...
7:57 pm
helenkeller
done with lots of greens
9:15 pm
hurshy
how do you decide if something is a fairly obvious hidden pair or a fairly shy naked pair?
