XV* Cage 3: Amongst the best XV Sudoku's I've played

[@nurglesgift394]

Thank you again!

[@SudokuSleuth]

My pleasure. I hope you continue the series, as you can see by the responses, people love it 🥰

[@oakleyg2870]

You were right in your description. Using the iterative non-consecutive box to unwind the puzzle at the end is beautiful.

[@bronwyncarr6714]

👏👏👏 Love a XV puzzle! I take as long as possible to make it last longer!

[@anaayoung9142]

Good puzzle! I used letters as you coloured highs and lows. It was a nice one. You find out the F very easily!!! 😮🤗

[@drengskap]

Yes, a very neat resolution. Very similar to one of the easier Colorado puzzles - after a false start, I tried again and completed in 29:04.

[@xmen87654321]

At 15:52 the A do NOT line up. Am I missing something? The A can be in either R1C6 or R3C6. I don't see any "I" restriction either.

[@SudokuSleuth]

You're right! The way to correctly deduce this, it to look at box 9, this forces an A in box 3, forces an A in box 2, and you can resolve them correctly that way!

[@matt_tressel]

Nice solve! Fun puzzle!

[@SudokuSleuth]

It really is!

[@BruceSchwartz007]

Crazy at the end!

[@SudokuSleuth]

😁

[@psiphiorg]

Quite a fun one! My time today was 21:43, solver number 644.

[@stubbsz]

I struggled big time on that. Wasted a lot of time on that last phase. Did a bunch of deductions before thinking I must have missed something obvious and rewinding back to see that it was actually much simpler than I thought.

[@Sinisest1121]

It is so strange that we fill grid in way to end so we have like 8 different solutions available and then just one cage turn that everything into unique solution only available and no given digits.

[@SudokuSleuth]

I love these sort of puzzles. I am just stunned how one cell / rule unwound it all 😃

[@jdyerjdyer]

Had a little trouble at the end, but got there with 31 minutes and 56 seconds being my time. I know I said I had work to do, but I'm doing the last 8 puzzles so I don't fall behind.

[@jeandurant5908]

Hello please can you explain how you just guess BC at 09:20. It seems to me that your puzzle would have been lost if you did it the other way around right ? Or can you just write whatever, it doesnt matter ?

[@SudokuSleuth]

Oh, it doesn't matter. At that point it's just an algebriac symbol to represent a low number, you can pick anything really.

[@jeandurant5908]

@@SudokuSleuth can you make a video why it doesnt matter. Because using using your techique is very easy but it seems like cheating

[@AditaBattleForge]

was trying to do this with only colors at first (*facepalm*) let me convince by the video to use letters instead. made a mistake, had to backtrack, took me well over 40 minutes in the end...

[@SudokuSleuth]

Ouch! Ref letters, couple of reasons I like them, 1) Colours become a mess after 4/5 IMO. The greys / blacks are impossible to distinguish without studying them 2) You can use the check feature to catch typos with letters / numbers. Can't with colours.

[@christianlett]

Once again I forgot the negative constraint on Xs and Vs, which added about 15 minutes onto my solve time 🤦‍♂

[@SudokuSleuth]

Wow, that would make it quite the tough puzzle 😁