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Difficulty: Hard Thursday, July 21, 2011

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CHAT LOG for Thursday, July 21, 2011

12:27 am
WHB

Done
1:10 am
Ed-was_here

Go
1:30 am
Ed-was_here

Done with greens
5:01 am
eyeman

Done at dawn.
6:00 am
angieplumptit

Very pleased to utilize the rarely used method of redundancy method on this cookie
6:09 am
kixx

go
6:23 am
kixx

done with greens
6:36 am
ypsigirl

dwg
9:09 am
franebrown

dwg
9:55 am
drwho

Difficulty score 32. No green.
10:11 am
Gretchen

I stand corrected, Unike - I'm afraid I'm not that advanced a player . . .
10:59 am
Phil

start
11:18 am
Phil

done, no greens
1:52 pm
helenkeller

go
2:04 pm
helenkeller

done
3:30 pm
K M

finished ... nice puzzle
4:08 pm
drwho

Gretchen: I didn't quite understand Unike's explanation of his distributed elimination technique. But from my own experience I can say that I have "discovered" various new and unusual techniques that on further reflection just turned out to be a unique way of spotting a more basic technique. On the other hand, the simplest puzzles sometimes present the opportunity to use advanced techniques, but the puzzles are simple because they can be solved without using the advanced techniques. Did I confuse you enough?
5:42 pm
Prinise

done, ng
6:00 pm
Doll414

go
6:14 pm
Doll414

done, ng
6:16 pm
drwho

Angie: Is the method of redundancy method one of Prof. Felloff's hacks?
6:19 pm
UnikeTheHunter

I have sometimes thought that redundancy might be a clue. ie. put a number in a cell that blocks only cells already blocked -- something like that.