I Discovered a NEW Forbidden Strategy - SHC 223 

Join the Smartie Party now 🥳to get EXCLUSIVE reward puzzle packs, ad free content, discord access, and so much more👉👉www.buymeacoffee.com/timberlakeB/membership Timestamps 0:00 Intro 00:20 It’s Solving Time 00:45 Snyder Notation 02:20 Claiming Pair 04:58 What to do after Snyder Notation 05:20 New Forbidden Strategy 10:07 Solving With Forbidden Strategy

Shye does it again, always finding new (or rarely used) tricks to set and solve puzzles. Every day is a learning day!!

thanks again for covering one of my puzzles! happy to see you find and talk about the main idea, as always :3

Holy cow, that was brutal. It took me weeks of on-and-off work to figure out. I did notice something suspicious in that bottom row, and I figured out that if VII7 (r9c1) was a 2, then VIII8 would be 56 and V5 would be 3. However, that alone told me nothing, so I used it as a node in some other chains. I solved for the 7 in VII2 by contradiction, which I really don't like doing, but hey, you do what you gotta. Another chain gave me a 7 at VI6, which unlocked it. My watch-later list has a lot of your vids now, I'm gonna have to do a lot of catching up😁

Hé ! Hé ! Shye's trickery did not cause me to shy away from the following starting path: 8 in r9c9, 4 in r9c1 (UR conflict to be avoided with the 4s in blocks 2 and 8. The rest goes fairly well. Amusing.

I normally struggle with Shye's Puzzles but this one was a puzzle I figured out and that made me feel good.

A couple weeks ago I watched a video on another channel that covered Bug+1. The lady did a good job covering it, so I when I saw the description of this video included a 'multi-value universal grave', I thought I might have a chance at it. Ultimately, I wasn't able to figure it out. I think the advanced solution in this video is more of an example of Uniqueness than it is a Universal grave, except that it involves 6 cells instead of 4. I had over 50 minutes into it, and I had quite a few BVC's filled in, and those 456's were glaring me in the face the whole time. But I wasn't able to do anything with them, because to me it didn't resemble the universal grave enough. I think if the video description said 'uniqueness' instead of Multi value universal grave, I might have been able to figure it out. Anyway, I had enough filled in so that once I had the BVC solved in the lower-right corner, I breezed through the rest of the puzzle.

I solved it by forgetting to pencil mark 4 in r9c4-6, I thought there was a naked triple of 256 in there and the puzzle fell fast after that. Now that's a forbidden strategy!

I could (and still can) only think of two "forbidden" strategies: assuming uniqueness (a legitimate taboo) and bifurcation-schmifurcation. At one point, I found myself with a 456 triple in row 1 and 2456 quad in row 9 with R9C1 being 24. I didn't think of R9C1 being the green cell during my time with it, but I'll call it Green now. If Green were 2, rows 1 and 9 would have parallel 456 triples. The possible cells for 5 and 6 in block 5 sealed it for me: 2 in Green meant a non-unique solution. I was also tired of chaining/bifurcation. So I placed the 4 and went on to finish the puzzle. Um, "Multivalue Universal Grave"? 5:30 Sometimes I see it. Sometimes, I'm blind to telegraphing. This time I saw the top part.

Interesting, I've never seen the uniqueness argument related to 2 triples consisting of 3 bi value cells each. But I see it now. I doubt I would ever catch it while solving a puzzle

This must be one of the easiest Shye ??? I've ever done. And yes, I must of got lucky but I noticed an intersection that eliminated a number & the puzzle fell apart after that.

RISORTING to uniqueness when there are other strategies available is pretty LAME in my opinion. If you explore both outcomes for the bilocal 6 in box 4 you'll come to the conclusion that r9c1 is in both cases going to be a 4