Way cool. The 4-7-8 triple at 9:43 unlocked my own attempt. When I returned to it (after being stuck) I saw that while I had already found the triple (I found it as a hidden triple because of a 1-2-5-9 quad I found in the column), I left behind a corner-marked 2 for r9,c3. That forced the 2 in r9,c1 and my own solve collapsed from there. I love how watching you solve it reveals things like this that I did not see even though they were in plain sight all along.
This is one of those rare puzzles where if you brute force by filling in all possible candidates, it's actually easier than trying to solve it using conventional methods lol
I used a naked quad to finally get through. Don’t think I’ve seen that a whole lot in nyt hards. But then again, there were probably more obvious ways to solve it and I am dumb.
This one was truly kicking my butt - thanks for having it up so fast.
Definitely the 478 hidden triple in c3 was the key to unlock the whole thing for me. I hadn't spotted it and was stuck for a while. Thank you.,
Way cool. The 4-7-8 triple at 9:43 unlocked my own attempt. When I returned to it (after being stuck) I saw that while I had already found the triple (I found it as a hidden triple because of a 1-2-5-9 quad I found in the column), I left behind a corner-marked 2 for r9,c3. That forced the 2 in r9,c1 and my own solve collapsed from there.
I love how watching you solve it reveals things like this that I did not see even though they were in plain sight all along.
It eas tricky, so easy to forget these types of scans, good solve!
This is one of those rare puzzles where if you brute force by filling in all possible candidates, it's actually easier than trying to solve it using conventional methods lol
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I used a naked quad to finally get through. Don’t think I’ve seen that a whole lot in nyt hards. But then again, there were probably more obvious ways to solve it and I am dumb.
Took me ages today, just couldn’t see that geometry and ended up pencilling until I found the inverse quad
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