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Techniques / Coloring

Multi Colors

Hard

Simple Colors with two or more separate chains for the same digit.

Color several chains of strong links for one digit, each with its own two colors. Exactly one color per chain is true. Two rules link the chains:

Type 2: if a cell of one color sees cells of both colors of another chain, that color cannot be true (one of the other chain's colors has to be, and the cell would clash with it). Remove the digit from all cells of that color. Type 1: if two cells of different chains see each other, those two colors cannot both be true, so one of the two other colors is. Any cell that sees both of those other colors loses the digit.

Notation

Multi Colors 1: 3 can be removed from r9c6.

12136935123123694872569128169581212697325694436975236892368929126994265173818136473852929573892382386417291381365468363542826926912689768174239292592359
Multi Colors 1: 3 can be removed from r9c6.

pattern removed

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8732912496245241657243982492958631247142362437915824739824937561224124775142896314863297529532929478166297185243249
Multi Colors 2: 2 can be removed from r1c4, r3c2, r7c6, r8c3.

pattern removed

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