tarek wrote:
Børge wrote:
Tarek, Thanks for an enjoyable and IMHO easier puzzle than your last one.
Thanks & well done, I agree that last week's puzzle is more difficult by the virtue of having very little revealed at the time the x-wing arrived ....
Just for the record and to avoid any misunderstandings:
I personally prefer the somewhat more difficult puzzles, like Regular Samurai #22.
I am a bit puzzled by your solver's path after the second X-Wing which yields the eliminations [g5r4c49][g5r9c9]<>4
After the eliminations from the second X-Wing have been done, IMHO the next most obvious step is:
Naked Single 9 in g5:r4c4
and not Hidden Single 4 in g5:r6c4
My view may be tainted by the fact that when solving a Sudoku using my personal helper (NOT SOLVER) I normally have "Auto-Replace
naked singles with solution" turned on. I find it tiresome having to manually convert Naked Singles to solutions.
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