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	   Topic: Free Press March 2, 2012 | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: Other puzzles   Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:10 pm   Subject: Free Press March 2, 2012 | 
  
  
	
 StrataGEM and GEMini are terms coined by Dpbobelisk in the thread on Aran's Red Green Transport here
 
 Wow! Some folks there take their sudoku, IMO, a little too seriously and personally. They coul ... | 
  
  
	   Topic: Q: apply two rules at once? | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: General discussion   Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 3:00 am   Subject: Q: apply two rules at once? | 
  
  
	
  . 2 . | 8 . 7 | . 3 1
  3 1 . | 9 . 6 | 8 2 7
  7 . 8 | 3 2 1 | 5 . .
 -------+-------+------
  2 5 3 | 1 6 8 | 7 4 9
  . 8 . | 7 9 2 | 3 1 5
  9 7 1 | 5 3 4 | 6 8 2
 -------+-------+------
  5 . 2 ... | 
  
  
	   Topic: Feb 2 VH | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: Daily Sudoku puzzles   Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 9:14 am   Subject: Feb 2 VH | 
  
  
	Thanks for the skyscraper link. How peculiar that a strategy so closely related to others that I use regularly wasn't immediately obvious! 
 
 Also, the 9s in rows 1 & 8 form a finned x-wing (do t ... | 
  
  
	   Topic: Feb 2 VH | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: Daily Sudoku puzzles   Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:41 am   Subject: Feb 2 VH | 
  
  
	| Hmmmm... I couldn't follow the skyscraper thingy, and I kept getting stuck on the "obvious" (and useless) XY-wings, but I did solve the puzzle with a simple coloring on 9 that eliminated the ... | 
  
  
	   Topic: Jan 12 VH | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: Daily Sudoku puzzles   Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:16 pm   Subject: Jan 12 VH | 
  
  
	UR r4 & r6, r6c9 = 4 also does the trick
 Is this the pattern to which you refer?
 
 
 Yes. Not your garden-variety "rectangle," as the left-side squares share a box rather than a column ... | 
  
  
	   Topic: Jan 12 VH | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: Daily Sudoku puzzles   Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 4:04 am   Subject: Jan 12 VH | 
  
  
	UR r4 & r6, r6c9 = 4 also does the trick
 
 That makes 3 VHs in a row that I've solved all by my lonesome.    
 
   --Orkamat the ex-noob | 
  
  
	   Topic: Jan 7 VH | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: Daily Sudoku puzzles   Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:11 am   Subject: Jan 7 VH | 
  
  
	     Yay me! I solved my very first VH with zero help or hints! (  and very little head-scratching)       | 
  
  
	   Topic: Interest in Sudoku? | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: General discussion   Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:18 am   Subject: Interest in Sudoku? | 
  
  
	
 Orkamat,
 
 Maybe you're expecting too much of yourself? I don't want to accept a conclusion if I can't follow the logic either, but I can't follow the logic if I haven't learned it. Why not ask que ... | 
  
  
	   Topic: Interest in Sudoku? | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: General discussion   Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:06 am   Subject: Interest in Sudoku? | 
  
  
	Post  your questions!  I am sure you'll be surprised by the response.
 
 Keith
 
 Well ... my questions so far mostly consisted of "huh?"  
 
 Take, for example, the posted solutions to Dec ... | 
  
  
	   Topic: Interest in Sudoku? | 
  
  
	Orkamat 
	   
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	 Forum: General discussion   Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:46 pm   Subject: Interest in Sudoku? | 
  
  
	I've always had the feeling that too much high-level discussion might be turning off newer players and potential participants.
 
 Indeed. The forum seems like a collection of very private discussions  ... | 
  
  
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