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#801, October 26 - November 1:
The Weekly Extreme Str8ts Puzzle

by Andrew Stuart

WARNING: This is the Weekly 'Extreme' Str8ts.
Only attempt this puzzle if you have time and patience.
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by: Alex

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Setti on 3 and it's done. Nice Sunday morning with more time for the family :)
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by: acs & hepa

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Halloween is coming soon, trick-or-treating! ;-)
 

by: Hel

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 Fantastic puzzle with nice layout! Short chain to decide where to put the 9 in the lower left box. Thanks a lot, hepa & Andrew!
 

by: Andrew Stuart

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 Hepa made this great puzzle. I just added a bit of colour :) Enjoy
 

by: kris

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 Like Hel, his hint makes the pumpkin look quite friendly, thank you all!
 

by: OneGuess

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 similar to Hel - just that I decided, where to put the 9 in the upper right box (2 options) - great puzzle again by hepa (and, yes, I like the colour as well :-)
 

by: hepa

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Well, Andrew not "just added a bit of color", it was his idea to do something special for Halloween, and he made the eyes WATCHING YOU solving the puzzle
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by: bhk

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After Setti on 3 and 2, everything was quite easy
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 The Weekly Str8ts BX puzzle #193
 

by: Martinus

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 Nice puzzle. CE, b and x power. No chains. Thanks.
 

by: Hel

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 Like Martinus. Thanks!
 

by: optimator

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 It took a while, but just CE. Thanks!
 

by: kmr

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 Also like Martinus. VCE in boxes 1 and 7 was my key.
 

by: ThomasF

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 for me it was the right choice for A3
 

by: tg

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 Not easy. Two attempts. But chainfree.
 

by: jupfi

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im new to bx. What is the meaning of ce, vce, b and x power?
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by: acs

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 The Weekly Str8ts X puzzle #193
 

by: Alois

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 Perfect joy. No chains.
 

by: Martinus

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 Also very nice, thanks. Some x rules, combination of SI with wings and settis in the end did it.
 

by: optimator

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 difficult for me, needing 2 tries
 

by: jgrab

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 Some fine SI agt the beginning leads to always the same hi/lo decisions. Then basically Settis.
 

by: Ben

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For me, no chain and no SI. Standard X-tools, including some larger skewed fish was all that was needed
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by: acs

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 The Weekly Str8ts B puzzle #193
 

by: optimator

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 10', very easy
 

by: ThomasF

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 nice
 

by: kmr

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Like the others. Nice and easy.
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by: acs

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 The Weekly Str8ts puzzle #801
 

by: Martinus

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 One setti is the key. Thanks.
 

by: Jens

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It's easy: One swordfish solves all.
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  • 22 mins, with a setti - could've been quicker if I hadn't gotten quite so distracted by the traitors xD
    - pefferlass
  • 28' scnd attempt (first 26.oct), very nice and easy, Danke for this one!
    - barbara
  • 12:33 - trivial when considering that the F3-J3 column has to be a lower half quadruplet (1-5) regardless of where the 1 is in row G
    - Q
  • 15' - Once you realise that there is a swordfish in the upper half, it's just filling in numbers. No settis.
    - Rudik
  • Done on the first attempt after 1:22:39 (h:mm:ss)
    - Alfred
  • 18 min - nach setti 3 nur noch CE und Logik
    - Rot
  • 8 min. just filling in
    - flowerwaffle
  • 11min, like Ske, surprisingly easy, please no hints on those
    - fred
  • 11' at the second attempt
    - Ske
  • Eine gemütliche Stunde. Setti 3 löst line F. Danke für das schöne Rätsel.
    - S. Walt
  • 22min
    - Silke
  • 16 minutes, easy
    - puzzled
  • 10 min
    - humpti dumpti
  • 20 minutes without candidates
    - Jan
  • the last too hard; this one too easy
    - chris1
  • Very easy; a few minutes only.
    - jgrab
  • 25 min. - some settis
    - Nessie
  • Quite easy, thanks for the setti 3 hint
    - Fred
  • 12 min - nice and easy
    - Susan
  • 17 min
    - AM
  • 15 min
    - Kid
  • 26', CE, setti and str8t 4ward. Thnx 4 this sunday fun!
    - UZ
  • faster than the demolition of the east wing. i'm king!
    - emil
  • danke für das Erfolgserlebnis nach dem Gewürge letzte Woche, thx for the „quicky“
    - biggi
  • 1h, second attempt.
    - H.E.
  • 15 min, easy
    - 7iron
  • Das Übliche und ein offensichtliches Setti. Ging schnell.
    - Maitre
  • 26 min, easy.
    - poblid
  • 13:33 - a fast sunday str8ts
    - Latimer
  • 16' maybe a bit too easy but always fun :)
    - Emma
  • 17'
    - Maven
  • 25 min - as alopex wrote: 1 setti did it, very easy
    - Michael
  • 14 min
    - Julioflor
  • 35 - easy; setti was enough
    - moni
  • 4' 1 swordfish solves it
    - optimator
  • 15 min - a fast run
    - Beate
  • 11 mins, number 3 did it.
    - Miss P
  • 15' - surprisingly easy
    - COM
  • 30 Min. settis, x-wings
    - Joe Reitzl
  • quite easy, chainless, 3 settis, nice
    - Zogl
  • 20' - 2nd try. one setti made it
    - alopex
  • 19:35
    - chris
  • CA of FGHJ3, then setti3.
    - MrL
  • 13 min, easy
    - meli
  • 18 min- It seems to be chainless :)
    - effchen
  • 20min easy, setti 3
    - ml
  • 16 min, Setti 3
    - malue74
  • 24 min, a normal one
    - hopplahierkommich
  • 17' easy, one setti
    - ThomasF
  • 12' WC
    - Hel
  • 19 min. Setti 3 war der Schlüssel… sehr schön…. Danke
    - Angelo
  • 16', too easy, just filling numbers
    - hhclimb
  • 22‘
    - Greg
  • 10' this week, last week I was desparate somewhere in the middle would be fine for me
    - easydoesit
  • 18 min, easy
    - Torsten&Irina
  • 11 min, not a 5*
    - Alex
  • 10’ as well as Volker
    - Richard
  • 0:19:06 Leicht, zur Winterzeit
    - zoo-pony (Tartlau)
  • 30 min, wesentlich leichter wie vorige woche
    - dersoloist
  • 18 min - h/l decision in F2/F3
    - Susi
  • 10' WC
    - pax
  • like waltweb
    - Jens
  • 29 min - setting 3 made it for me easy
    - Volker
  • 10 min after 2nd try!
    - Jim
  • 17min Nice after last week's brain buster
    - Essie
  • 39 min -
    - wjanet
  • easy peasy filling in figures by caring for settis - starting with 3
    - waltweb
  • 10' w/ early hi/lo decision. - Nice Sunday to all!
    - A B Traherne