My solve of this was straightforward and fast for me (though never as fast as you). For this one, my heuristic of doing all the corner-marks and then all the center-marks led to the puzzle collapsing. I found a pair in the first stack, and that collapsed the rest of my solve. Another fun puzzle. A bit harder than many, perhaps because for the first time in a few days there were no "NYT Trick" patterns.
This was definitely easier than Shye's puzzle. (Finding the 9 in the center wasn't the hard part.) I was merrily rolling along until I hit the break. I found that very early in, I'd erroneously placed a digit. 3:10 As you were talking about the need to rescan for consequences of a placed digit, I looked at the 8s in the top band. The 8 in block 1 is constrained to row 1, and is in a 58 pair.
I got the 28 pair in the lower left and the 15 in column 6. After that pretty easy. Love your solves. I learn more every day!
My solve of this was straightforward and fast for me (though never as fast as you). For this one, my heuristic of doing all the corner-marks and then all the center-marks led to the puzzle collapsing. I found a pair in the first stack, and that collapsed the rest of my solve.
Another fun puzzle. A bit harder than many, perhaps because for the first time in a few days there were no "NYT Trick" patterns.
11:35 to solve.
Completed in 8m21s
27:51 for me, it took me forever to find the hidden 2 in box 7, and the rest of the puzzle collapsed.
This was definitely easier than Shye's puzzle. (Finding the 9 in the center wasn't the hard part.) I was merrily rolling along until I hit the break. I found that very early in, I'd erroneously placed a digit.
3:10 As you were talking about the need to rescan for consequences of a placed digit, I looked at the 8s in the top band. The 8 in block 1 is constrained to row 1, and is in a 58 pair.
00:10:51
Strangely I found the Medium much harder with a time of 18:15.
Found this one a little frustrating. Was blind to those pointing 5s in box 5 which placed the row 1 5. 12:02 for me
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