Last poster before threadlock gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 8)

[Silviu200530]

I mean, Romanian and Italian to their own version of calling w as double-v.

I think romance languages also call Y as a “greek i”.

[O.kazo]

Hungary as well.

But so far any languages I learned it wasalways called double-u

[Daeron]

I thought you were taking a break from hosting fam??

[Daeron]

can we go back to the call-out drama inducing fam theme btw

that was the best fam

[TodaysStory]

dm

[Jane]

In my language it’s not double anything

[Daeron]

Uhm so crying at this comment

[Silviu200530]

I did not understand a word

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@O.kazo

Why did you eliminate the 8 from c5r7?

If you put 8 on C5R7, then it has to have a 7 on C4R7 or C4R8. Look at block 2. Where is the 8? In one of the renban lines. More specifically, in column 4. These renban lines are of length 3; where is 7? It can’t be on C4; blocked by the 7 you just put. It can’t be on C5; blocked by the 7 in block 5. Therefore, 8 cannot be put on C5C7.

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@O.kazo

C2r4, c2r6 as well c8r4 and c8r6 see all parts of both of their respective vertical renban’s so the can’t have any of the overlapping numbers. (Essentialy eliminating 46 from those places.)

Well those were indeed the case, since C4R4 can only be 4 or 6, making a 4-5-6 triple along with C1R4 and C9R4. The same goes with C1R6, C6R6, and C9R6.

@O.kazo

The c1r4, c1r6, c9r4, c9r6 cells contain two 5s, and either 4s or 6s as rest, it can’t be an x-wing, since if you put both number (other than the 5) as the same, you won’t be able to place that number in box5. (Since 2-5-8 already is occupying those cells, and none of those number is equal with either 4 or 6)

So 4 and 6 should occupy opposite corners in those four cells.

Ah. This one I didn’t see before.
Thank you for the guidance.

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@Zone_Q11

Stuck. Reset at 28:48.
Stuck. Reset at 43:03.
Stuck. Reset at 78:08.
Stuck. Give up at 92:02.

Finished. 117:42.
Finally… I believe I found the intended way.

[Litten]

You are about to head into the ocean at a beach and you see this guy drowning a man. What do you do?

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@Zone_Q11

@Zone_Q11

Stuck. Reset at 28:48.
Stuck. Reset at 43:03.
Stuck. Reset at 78:08.
Stuck. Give up at 92:02.

Finished. 117:42.
Finally… I believe I found the intended way.

I couldn't have done it without these hints.

@O.kazo

Try to check where 5 can be in column 6 (from what I understood from your method, you shouldn’t have a concrete place for them yet, but it should give you a nice restrain for the remaining solve), afterwards, where 1 can be in column 5. (It’s a bit brute-forcey method, but it was how I ended up solving it)

@O.kazo

Since c2r4 can’t be 4 anymore, (because the above reason) and the lower-end renban always contain 234, as well the v clue always contain either 1-4 or 2-3 you wouldn’t be ever to hide any of those number in the box 1-4 renban making that renban essentially an upper-end renban.

In particular the first hint. I really got stuck after finding the approximate location of 8 in column 5, so I just kept brute-forcing everywhere else.

Finding 1 in column 5 was not brute-force-y for me at all though. It can’t be C5R2 or C5R7 because 2 is already in C4R5. It can’t be in C5R8 or C5R9 because it’s a 3-length renban with a 7 and an 8 in it. So the only place it could go is as a 1-2 pair in C5R1 and C5R2.

[TodaysStory]

it depends on if im on my way to work or not

[Litten]

You are on your way to being a life guard

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@Zone_Q11

Give up at 92:02.

Finished. 117:42.

This technically means that -ignoring the fact that I already knew the first couple of steps- I did the rest of the work in approximately 25 minutes.

…so basically it’s one of those puzzles where “if you know where to look at”, then it wouldn’t take more than 30 minutes.

[Litten]

I feel like if I’m a life guard and see that, you are on your own pal. Take some responsibility. We can’t keep clean up after people pissing off ocean gods

[Chomps]

i watch

[O.kazo]

https://sudokupad.app/4o3b5oqvf2

Try this one.
It becomes very easy, once you find where to look.

[O.kazo]

@Zone_Q11

Well those were indeed the case, since C4R4 can only be 4 or 6, making a 4-5-6 triple along with C1R4 and C9R4. The same goes with C1R6, C6R6, and C9R6.

Well, I started to solving for the renbans before the bulbs, so I knew immediately, which renban is which in column 2, but you are correct, if you do it the other way around, it’s really a reductant information.