Please help me with a Sudoku puzzle
 

-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

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I like Sudoku but you must be [censored] kidding me if you think I'm going to decipher that and write it all down.

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dude. please. just draw the lines and fill it in. it will be fun

Re: Please help me with a Sudoku puzzle
 

fairly easy to do in excel.

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damn, I used to have a square set up in excel and everything. must've lost it or something.

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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.

Re: Please help me with a Sudoku puzzle
 

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

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rows, columns, and boxes

hoping to be helped,
mark

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Ass. Thanks for stealing time out of my night. I'll hopefully have this done soon.

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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.