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February Patreon reward - Duality III
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Mario
I asked myself: where is 1 in column 8 and which 5 digits can populate the renban in the same column? Also, knowing that r1c9 and r2c9 have the same digits in r9c7 and r9c8. This was my starting point. Hope it helps.
Robert Cook
Can anyone advise the break in for Double Dutch by Matt y Ddraig? I've got some pairs of 5s in boxes 3 and 9, and 9 somewhere in column 9 in box 6, along with most cells in column 9 down to three candidates by brute force, but am not seeing the intended logic...
Elif
I started with coloring the cells next to Kropki dots. Row 6 with the given 7 is a good starting point. Good Luck
Nieccole Hilliard
I am stuck on getting started on “an abstract person.” Anyone have a suggestion to get going?
Jörg
Row 6 and then focusing on the bottom two groups of lines and circles are what got me started.
Lauren Wilder
Hi, newbie here (I joined four days ago) and I’m wondering if anyone has any hints on breaking in to the Abstract Person puzzle (no 8) or can point me to a video of a similar puzzle on the channel? I’ve stared at it for a few hours over the last three days and can’t find a place to start that doesn’t seem to involve penciling in the whole board.
Nika Glunchadze
Think about what is (or what is not) the maximal value of the numbers that are in the circles, considering position of the circles and the frequency of the number. After that, you can't directly place digits into the circles, but you can certainly figure out which set of digits go there.
Fredrik Kronander
A bit annoyed with myself but I just can't find a way forward with "Counting Masyu Circles". Could someone please give me a hint there to avoid a mental breakdown here? :) Feels like I need to find a way to determine the numbers in the circles to start with but I can't see how. Thanks!
Bill Shuff
Just finished, fantastic set; special appreciation to Double Dutch by Matt y Ddraig, that was something else but finally cracked it last night. Well done, setters!
Sergey Kuntsel
What a brilliant pack it was. Absolutely fantastic puzzles, every one of them. Some of them were rather tricky, closer to 4+ difficulty to me. Although I fancied every single one of them, I would like to highlight the ones from yttrio, such elegance and beauty with ambiguous pair colouring, resolving only at the very end - haven’t used the technique in quite a while - just stunning, Andrewsarchus with quite tricky and resistant diagonal lines, I Love Sleeping with Kropki circles that are just mind blowing and very hard, jeremydover’s great clues with nontrivial solution and Matt and Ddraig’s puzzle that seems simple but is just as hard as it gets with the ruleset, Oddlyeven, Lake, FullDeck and Missing a Few Cards, you name them! Round of applause to every author and our publishers. Thank you all very much, I had a wonderful time cracking the set! IMHO, the best puzzle pack in quite some time.
Bill Shuff
Since it's a 0-8 puzzle, there's no 9-6 pair to make 15, so yes it's 8-7 pair. :)
Anthony Hastings
In Ate for next to nothing, does the 0 in column 9 have to have 7 and 8 next to it to make the clue fit? Or can more digits go either side of zero? Thank you.
Bill Shuff
Haven't played the last 3 days, WFH with a sick child, but I'm down to #16, so close!
Benny Ng
i have broken Dutch Entropy 4 or 5 times now. i cannot figure out how to not force the 4/6 cells into a contradiction for the life of me and would love to know what i am doing wrong.
Cilyble
No it doesn’t go diagonally at any point 😊
Elisabeth Freund
Quick question about the Masyu Line in puzzle 5: Can it go diagonal? Since it doesn't specify, I assumed it can, but now I am very stuck, so I figured I'd at least ask :'D
