Analysis of xx-top500-391-base.sdk

Contents

Original Sudoku

level: hard

Original Sudoku

position: 3..7...2......16..............2...7..16.......5.......8..42.3..9.....1........5.. initial

Autosolve

position: 36.75..21527..16..1....275.4.3216.75.165......5.....168714253699.5...1.26.21..5.7 autosolve
Autosolve

Pair Reduction Variants

Pair Reduction Analysis

Pair Reduction Analysis

The following important HDP chains were detected:

* DIS # E3: 8,9 => CTR => E3: 3,4,6
* DIS # G6: 8,9 => CTR => G6: 2,4
* DIS # G6: 8,9 => CTR => G6: 2,4
* CNT   3 HDP CHAINS /  19 HYP OPENED

See Appendix: Full HDP Chains for full list of HDP chains.

Pair Reduction

Pair Reduction

The following important HDP chains were detected:

* DIS # E3: 8,9 => CTR => E3: 3,4,6
* DIS E3: 3,4,6 # G6: 8,9 => CTR => G6: 2,4
* STA E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4
* CNT   2 HDP CHAINS /  44 HYP OPENED

See Appendix: Full HDP Chains for full list of HDP chains.

Pair Reduction Position

position: 36.75..21527..16..1....275.4.3216.75.165......5.....168714253699.5...1.26.21..5.7 pair_reduction
Pair Reduction

See section Pair Reduction for the HDP chains leading to this result.

Deep Pair Reduction

Deep Pair Reduction

Time used: 0:00:58.997110

The following important HDP chains were detected:

* DIS # C1: 8,9 # D3: 3,6 => CTR => D3: 8,9
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 # E6: 8,9 => CTR => E6: 3,4,7
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 # F6: 8,9 => CTR => F6: 3,4,7
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 # G5: 2,4 => CTR => G5: 8,9
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # E5: 9 => CTR => E5: 7,8
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 # F8: 3 => CTR => F8: 7,8
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 + F8: 7,8 # F5: 7 => CTR => F5: 8,9
* DIS # C3: 8,9 # E2: 8,9 => CTR => E2: 3,4
* PRF # C3: 8,9 + E2: 3,4 # F6: 8,9 => SOL
* STA # C3: 8,9 + E2: 3,4 + F6: 8,9
* CNT   9 HDP CHAINS /  46 HYP OPENED

See Appendix: Full HDP Chains for full list of HDP chains.

Details

Positions

3..7...2......16..............2...7..16.......5.......8..42.3..9.....1........5.. initial
36.75..21527..16..1....275.4.3216.75.165......5.....168714253699.5...1.26.21..5.7 autosolve
36.75..21527..16..1....275.4.3216.75.165......5.....168714253699.5...1.26.21..5.7 pair_reduction
364758921527941638189632754493216875716584293258379416871425369935867142642193587 solved

Classification

level: hard

Pairing Analysis

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* PAIRS (12)
B3: 8,9
H2: 3,9
B4: 8,9
A5: 2,7
A6: 2,7
C6: 8,9
G4: 8,9
H5: 3,9
B8: 3,4
B9: 3,4
H8: 4,8
H9: 4,8

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* CONSTRAINT PAIRS (AUTO SOLVE)
A5,A6: 2.. / A5 = 2  => 10 pairs (_) / A6 = 2  => 10 pairs (_)
G5,G6: 2.. / G5 = 2  => 10 pairs (_) / G6 = 2  => 10 pairs (_)
A5,G5: 2.. / A5 = 2  => 10 pairs (_) / G5 = 2  => 10 pairs (_)
A6,G6: 2.. / A6 = 2  => 10 pairs (_) / G6 = 2  => 10 pairs (_)
H5,I5: 3.. / H5 = 3  => 13 pairs (_) / I5 = 3  =>  0 pairs (*)
B8,B9: 3.. / B8 = 3  => 12 pairs (_) / B9 = 3  => 12 pairs (_)
H2,H5: 3.. / H2 = 3  =>  0 pairs (*) / H5 = 3  =>  0 pairs (X)
C1,C3: 4.. / C1 = 4  => 20 pairs (_) / C3 = 4  => 14 pairs (_)
B8,B9: 4.. / B8 = 4  => 12 pairs (_) / B9 = 4  => 12 pairs (_)
H8,H9: 4.. / H8 = 4  => 12 pairs (_) / H9 = 4  => 12 pairs (_)
E2,I2: 4.. / E2 = 4  => 14 pairs (_) / I2 = 4  => 18 pairs (_)
B8,H8: 4.. / B8 = 4  => 12 pairs (_) / H8 = 4  => 12 pairs (_)
B9,H9: 4.. / B9 = 4  => 12 pairs (_) / H9 = 4  => 12 pairs (_)
D3,E3: 6.. / D3 = 6  => 13 pairs (_) / E3 = 6  => 12 pairs (_)
D8,E8: 6.. / D8 = 6  => 12 pairs (_) / E8 = 6  => 13 pairs (_)
D3,D8: 6.. / D3 = 6  => 13 pairs (_) / D8 = 6  => 12 pairs (_)
E3,E8: 6.. / E3 = 6  => 12 pairs (_) / E8 = 6  => 13 pairs (_)
A5,A6: 7.. / A5 = 7  => 10 pairs (_) / A6 = 7  => 10 pairs (_)
E8,F8: 7.. / E8 = 7  => 13 pairs (_) / F8 = 7  => 12 pairs (_)
B4,C6: 8.. / B4 = 8  =>  0 pairs (X) / C6 = 8  => 14 pairs (_)
H8,H9: 8.. / H8 = 8  => 12 pairs (_) / H9 = 8  => 12 pairs (_)
B4,G4: 8.. / B4 = 8  =>  0 pairs (X) / G4 = 8  => 14 pairs (_)
B3,B4: 8.. / B3 = 8  => 14 pairs (_) / B4 = 8  =>  0 pairs (X)
G1,H2: 9.. / G1 = 9  =>  0 pairs (*) / H2 = 9  =>  0 pairs (X)
B4,C6: 9.. / B4 = 9  => 14 pairs (_) / C6 = 9  =>  0 pairs (X)
E9,F9: 9.. / E9 = 9  => 13 pairs (_) / F9 = 9  => 14 pairs (_)
B4,G4: 9.. / B4 = 9  => 14 pairs (_) / G4 = 9  =>  0 pairs (X)
B3,B4: 9.. / B3 = 9  =>  0 pairs (X) / B4 = 9  => 14 pairs (_)
H2,H5: 9.. / H2 = 9  => 13 pairs (_) / H5 = 9  =>  0 pairs (*)
* DURATION: 0:00:47.378455  START: 16:11:22.945788  END: 16:12:10.324243 2017-05-04
* CP COUNT: (29)
* SOLUTION FOUND

* DEEP PAIR REDUCTION
* DURATION: 0:00:58.690843  START: 16:13:11.705911  END: 16:14:10.396754 2017-05-04
* SOLUTION FOUND
* SAVE PR GRAPH xx-top500-391-base-pr-002.dot
* REASONING
* DIS # C1: 8,9 # D3: 3,6 => CTR => D3: 8,9
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 # E6: 8,9 => CTR => E6: 3,4,7
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 # F6: 8,9 => CTR => F6: 3,4,7
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 # G5: 2,4 => CTR => G5: 8,9
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # E5: 9 => CTR => E5: 7,8
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 # F8: 3 => CTR => F8: 7,8
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 + F8: 7,8 # F5: 7 => CTR => F5: 8,9
* DIS # C3: 8,9 # E2: 8,9 => CTR => E2: 3,4
* PRF # C3: 8,9 + E2: 3,4 # F6: 8,9 => SOL
* STA # C3: 8,9 + E2: 3,4 + F6: 8,9
* CNT   9 HDP CHAINS /  46 HYP OPENED

Header Info

Top 500 Minimum 17 391

solution: 364758921527941638189632754493216875716584293258379416871425369935867142642193587
info: 50712    FNBXYK   S8.f     29540

http://www.sfsudoku.com/su17ExtremeDiff500.txt from http://www.minimumsudoku.com/

Solution

position: 364758921527941638189632754493216875716584293258379416871425369935867142642193587 solved
Solution

See section Deep Pair Reduction for the HDP chains leading to this result.

Appendix: Full HDP Chains

A1. Pair Reduction Analysis

Full list of HDP chains traversed:

* INC # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # D3: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # E3: 8,9 => CTR => E3: 3,4,6
* INC # E3: 3,4,6 => UNS
* INC # D2: 3,9 => UNS
* INC # E2: 3,9 => UNS
* INC # D6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # E6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # F6: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # G6: 8,9 => CTR => G6: 2,4
* INC # G6: 2,4 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # G5: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # G6: 8,9 => CTR => G6: 2,4
* INC # G6: 2,4 => UNS
* INC # G1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # G1: 4 => UNS
* CNT  19 HDP CHAINS /  19 HYP OPENED

A2. Pair Reduction

Full list of HDP chains traversed:

* INC # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # D3: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # E3: 8,9 => CTR => E3: 3,4,6
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # D3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # D3: 3,6 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # D3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # D3: 3,6 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # D2: 3,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # E2: 3,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # D6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # E6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 # F6: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS E3: 3,4,6 # G6: 8,9 => CTR => G6: 2,4
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # D6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # E6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # F6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G5: 2,4 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G1: 4 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # D3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # D3: 3,6 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # D2: 3,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # E2: 3,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # D6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # E6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # F6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G5: 2,4 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G1: 4 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G5: 2,4 => UNS
* INC E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4 # G5: 8,9 => UNS
* STA E3: 3,4,6 + G6: 2,4
* CNT  44 HDP CHAINS /  44 HYP OPENED

A3. Deep Pair Reduction

Full list of HDP chains traversed:

* INC # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # D3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # D3: 3,6 => UNS
* INC # D2: 3,9 => UNS
* INC # E2: 3,9 => UNS
* INC # D6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # E6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # F6: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C3: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # G5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # G5: 2,4 => UNS
* INC # G1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # G1: 4 => UNS
* INC # G5: 2,4 => UNS
* INC # G5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 # F1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 # G1: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 # D3: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # C1: 8,9 # D3: 3,6 => CTR => D3: 8,9
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 # D6: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 # E6: 8,9 => CTR => E6: 3,4,7
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 # F6: 8,9 => CTR => F6: 3,4,7
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 # G5: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 # G5: 2,4 => CTR => G5: 8,9
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # F5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # F9: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # E5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # F5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # E5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # F5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # F8: 7,8 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # F8: 3 => UNS
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # E5: 7,8 => UNS
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 # E5: 9 => CTR => E5: 7,8
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 # F8: 7,8 => UNS
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 # F8: 3 => CTR => F8: 7,8
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 + F8: 7,8 # F5: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 + F8: 7,8 # F5: 7 => CTR => F5: 8,9
* INC # C1: 8,9 + D3: 8,9 + E6: 3,4,7 + F6: 3,4,7 + G5: 8,9 + E5: 7,8 + F8: 7,8 + F5: 8,9 => UNS
* INC # C3: 8,9 # D2: 8,9 => UNS
* DIS # C3: 8,9 # E2: 8,9 => CTR => E2: 3,4
* INC # C3: 8,9 + E2: 3,4 # F5: 8,9 => UNS
* PRF # C3: 8,9 + E2: 3,4 # F6: 8,9 => SOL
* STA # C3: 8,9 + E2: 3,4 + F6: 8,9
* CNT  45 HDP CHAINS /  46 HYP OPENED