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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Sat Jun 30, 2012, 10:16 PM Jun 2012

The most difficult solvable Sudoku puzzle

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166680/True-test-genius-monumental-waste-time-Can-solve-hardest-Sudoku.html

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The most difficult solvable Sudoku puzzle (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2012 OP

Uh, sure. Systematic Chaos Jun 2012 #1

Damn! That really was a tough one... petronius Jun 2012 #2

Done ret5hd Jun 2012 #3

This was very easy to solve, using my approach HunterEu Jul 2013 #4

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)

1. Uh, sure.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 10:25 PM

Jun 2012

Get back to me in 27 years.

petronius

(26,597 posts)

2. Damn! That really was a tough one...

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Sat Jun 30, 2012, 10:41 PM

Jun 2012

ret5hd

(20,482 posts)

3. Done

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sat Jun 30, 2012, 11:04 PM

Jun 2012

no, i won't post the answer here. do your own work!

HunterEu

(1 post)

4. This was very easy to solve, using my approach

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Sat Jul 6, 2013, 05:26 PM

Jul 2013

this puzzle was solved relatively easily with a new approach (not a method or technique) that I use in very difficult Sudoku puzzles, but it does not work on all puzzles, however it did work on this one and on AI Escargot from 2006. Before using this approach, I "accidentally" solved it by looking for a cloaked X-Wing. If this post generates interest, then I would be happy to describe both incidents.

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