So much for today's history lesson...
I decided to call this Samurai-X Ronin because it is impossible to master. It has only 70 clues. To give you an impression: The full suite of techniques for the regular Samurai puzzles (with Diagonal techniques added) only manage to solve 2 cells.
If you can avoid bifurcation (a euphemism for 'guessing'), this will be a great exercise to discover multi-grid AIC's, BUG-Lites and coloring patterns. Do not forget the diagonals. They will be needed.
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010608000090030000000000020005000000000006000408307000000000000000000000900804000
000308090000010030040000000000000700000400000000702801000000000000000000000203005
000070000000000000000000000061000720000000000028000350000000000000000000000090000
900504000000000000000000000501802000000007000007000000000000060050060000070309000
000106007000000000000000000000902703000300000000000400010000000000090020000605030
A special forum rank awaits the player who can find the longest AIC in the solving path. It can only contain strong & weak links, no AUR's, ALS and other fancy patterns. And it must cause one or more eliminations.
This competition ends Friday June 15. Good luck!
Ruud