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g/ng - very tricky

done... had some trouble with it

Tall Mike: Samuel Johnson must not have had much of a sense of humor to have maligned the pun all those years ago. Thanks for the laugh of the day!

moedog: Oops, I didn't see your pun. I'm thinking you get the honors today!!!!

pretty easy once I dropped the greens in, pretty opaque before that.

done, using greens and 1 lucky guess that turned out to be correct. And just so I'm understanding the terminology in use by @spellacked and @UnlikeTheHuner, can someone confirm that "virtuals" = "greens" = "possible numbers that might go in a cell". I do get most of the concepts behind using URs (though I'm shaky on the Type 3s), and a good reference for others who may not have used them to solve puzzles in the past is http://www.sudokuwiki.org/Unique_Rectangles

Judy, I don't know if my explanations are very clear, but I have a webpage devoted to sudoku techniques. I believe what spellacked and UnikeTheHunter refer to as virtuals are what I call virtual crosshatching.

Check my profile for the URL.

Done...ng but 1 lucky guess.

Well, I just checked my profile and there are lots of URLs but not the exact one you want:

The home page:
http://sudoku.pauls-pc-repair.com/
Sudoku techniques:
http://sudoku.pauls-pc-repair.com/index.php?p\nage=Techniques
And I recommend referring to this page where I define terms:
http://sudoku.pauls-pc-repair.com/index.php?p\nage=Terms

Thank you, @drwho. Your Sudoku Techniques page is very helpful

Glad I could help.

I've been using a lot of the techniques shown, but never had a name for them. I like to develop my own approaches to solving any type of puzzle, starting with brute force methods, and then understanding the patterns I see as I go along. However, this approach (I clearly see now) is "reinventing the wheel" (chuckle) ... but I do understand "my ways", and like learning any new solving techniques (in math/science/logic-related subject matter), practice with the new techniques will give me confidence and understanding in using them. Thanks to all for your support and guidance!

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Done.

ding

done - back to 2009

Judy, No, "virtuals" and "greens" are entirely different.
~"Greens" are unique to IronSudoku, the tiny green colored numbers that may be placed in cells as a crutch.
~"Virtuals" are explainable best by example. In today's puzzle, the central block contains a "virrual 7." (After placing a 5 in the central cell) it's right edge may be treated as though a 7 were there, precluding a 7 in the right edge of the bottom central block.

There's a neat trick early on in today's puzzle that involves the number 7 in two of another kind of virtual -- block virtuals acting in tandem. I hope you can see it, just because it's cute.

King Arthur's knights of the round table dreaded formal dinners because they always got a leg.

DING. That cute trick I mentioned may have been the Medium trick. I didn't see any other. Kinda slow. 18.

TallMike - I recently went to Alaska to see an eye doctor, but it turns out he was an optical Aleutian.

We just passed the winter solstice -the birthday of King Arthur's shortest knight.

Even though the eye doctor was an Aleutian you might have been able to see one of his pupils.

True, but I am so cornea, I didn't want to make a spectacle of myself.

Winter solstice, longest night
Why does no-one get that right?

My mind must have been summer else.

A priest, a rabbi & a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What? Is this a joke?"

Walks a president of the US into a gay bar.

A company I once worked for in England has just notified me that I must provide proof of my existence if I want them to continue paying my small pension. Not proof that I am still alive but literally a certificate of existence. Will I ultimately have to demonstrate that I think as proof that I am? How would I do that?

Boo Mr Oo. Political jokes are currently unwelcome here. We're all just having fun.

I'm still laughing about the termite.

Two gentlemen walk into a bar. The second one should have seen it coming.

Tall mike, send them a urine sample.

start the recent expert

done, second guess