How Cracking The Cryptic Uncovered Mind-Blowing Sudoku Magic – Sudoku Analysis 38

In How Cracking The Cryptic Uncovered Mind-Blowing Sudoku Magic – Sudoku Analysis 38 by Smart Hobbies, I analyze a solve by Simon Anthony of Cracking The Cryptic from the original video The Sudoku Technique We Didn’t Know, 12 May 2021. The puzzle is Valtari by Shye and it features an Exocet, which is a mind-blowing Sudoku strategy that works like magic. I show you how to play Sudoku better and how to solve Sudoku faster. I analyze this puzzle logically and explain all the expert Sudoku tricks, Sudoku techniques, and Sudoku strategies as they are applied to the Sudoku game. I analyze that solve plus add What If? moment to see if Simon could have solved this puzzle a little differently.
The original video can be found here:

The Sudoku Technique We Didn’t Know, 12 May 2021

This video is part of my Sudoku Analysis series on my YouTube channel, Smart Hobbies. The goal of this series is to analyze Sudoku puzzles completed by some of the world’s best solvers.
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Strategies demonstrated in this video:

Naked Single
Hidden Single
Naked Pair
Pointing Pair
Exocet

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[SmartHobbies]

Time Stamps
06:18 What If #1 What If Simon Bifurcated R7C7?

[jand]

Brilliant, Timberlake! This exocet strategy went over my head but maybe someday I will understand it.

[fubaralakbar]

My eyes immediately went to I7, II9, and III7. Those overlapping Snyders are the one of the first places I look.

[brucewayne]

A new (to me) Shye ??? to enjoy Sunday morning. I loaded it up & saw extreme: oh boy. But after staring at it for a few minutes, I thought I found a weakness in the bivalue cells & it worked for me. The puzzle started unfolding after that.

[JohnRandomness]

I spent considerable time on it, found a few interesting features, and placed a few digits. I'm stuck.
4:10 Those two green cells, I also noticed the possible 1s there, and found a few facts based on them. 1 on the left means a 61 pair in column 1 block 1. On the right, 1 means a 71 pair in column 9 block 3. It turned out that R1C2 is 8 in both cases. My current position has all but the 167 triple filled out in block 3, considerably less in block 1.
5:50 As I've already placed 4 and 8 in block 3, my version of the left colored column is in block 6, a pointing (claiming?) pair in 4s.
10:40 I returned to my grid, and saw that without 234 in three of those colored middle-band cells, there were two few of them to fill all the cells. Combined with 1, they fill out the cells one each. My first act was to place the 6 in block 6. I did solve the puzzle. Unfortunately, I don't see how to spot that trick on my own.
15:30 I already had the pair of 4s in block 6, yet I still was stuck until this video. Maybe it's removing 4 from column 4 that does the job?

[RoderickEtheria]

Huh, I remember this from a while back, nowhere recent.