View Full Version : Please help me with a Sudoku puzzle
MarkL444
12-16-2005, 12:24 AM
-1582--37
----3--8-
-389---5-
179-5-846
854---293
623489175
-----871-
-8--7-36-
-4--9-528
Ive been working on this for a while now and I can't find the next move. I had a friend check all the numbers to the answer in the back so I know its right. Ive done a lot of easy and medium puzzles but this was my first attempt at a hard. Maybe there is some technique I don't know about or whatever but I can't find the next move. Any help would be awesome.
thanks
mark
istewart
12-16-2005, 12:25 AM
I like Sudoku but you must be [censored] kidding me if you think I'm going to decipher that and write it all down.
MarkL444
12-16-2005, 12:26 AM
dude. please. just draw the lines and fill it in. it will be fun
Jack of Arcades
12-16-2005, 12:29 AM
fairly easy to do in excel.
Jack of Arcades
12-16-2005, 12:31 AM
damn, I used to have a square set up in excel and everything. must've lost it or something.
MarkL444
12-16-2005, 12:31 AM
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fairly easy to do in excel.
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hear that istewart? come on, help a brotha out. i just want to know the next move (and why). after that i will dominate this thing. its probablt something easy that i am just overlooking, but its pissed me off none the less.
Mark,
Quick question as I've seen two types.
Does each 3x3 box have to contain the numbers 1-9 or is it just rows/columns.
Hoping to helpingly,
kyro
MarkL444
12-16-2005, 12:54 AM
rows, columns, and boxes
hoping to be helped,
mark
New001
12-16-2005, 12:59 AM
Ass. Thanks for stealing time out of my night. I'll hopefully have this done soon.
maryfield48
12-16-2005, 01:38 AM
Name the columns A to I, and number the rows 1 to 9. Cell B7 can only be 6 or 9; E7 can only be 4 or 6; I7 can only be 4 or 9. That accounts for the 4, 6, & 9 for that row. So since C7 can only be 2 or 6, and the 6 has to be in one of the other three cells mentioned, C7 has to be the 2.
MarkL444
12-16-2005, 11:58 AM
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Name the columns A to I, and number the rows 1 to 9. Cell B7 can only be 6 or 9; E7 can only be 4 or 6; I7 can only be 4 or 9. That accounts for the 4, 6, & 9 for that row. So since C7 can only be 2 or 6, and the 6 has to be in one of the other three cells mentioned, C7 has to be the 2.
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Thanks! I had writen in that those cells could only be the numbers you mentioned but didn't put the pieces together. Thanks again.
Cool, so we can start creating threads for help on puzzles in OOT now.
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