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[quyet1990]

can somebody please give me an algorithm that will help me to fill in the last few here. I can solve it using a guess and check, but would prefer to have an algorithm. Thanks in advance
Thank jeffcia. My english is very bad.

There is a Sudoku board I would like you to look at

Click on this link:
http://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudoku.htm?bd=127539864459286700368100259913452678675008402842600590586000127294761385731825946

This is a text version of the board useful for posting on forums:

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+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|    1   2   7 |    5   3   9 |    8   6   4 |
|    4   5   9 |    2   8   6 |    7  13  13 |
|    3   6   8 |    1  47  47 |    2   5   9 |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|    9   1   3 |    4   5   2 |    6   7   8 |
|    6   7   5 |   39  19   8 |    4  13   2 |
|    8   4   2 |    6  17  37 |    5   9  13 |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|    5   8   6 |   39  49  34 |    1   2   7 |
|    2   9   4 |    7   6   1 |    3   8   5 |
|    7   3   1 |    8   2   5 |    9   4   6 |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+

[JasonLion]

That puzzle has multiple solutions. I don't believe any further progress is possible without randomly picking one of the solutions.

[Leren]

According to your link this is the original puzzle on Andrew Stuart's Sudoku site:

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...1.5...
14....67.
.8...24..
.63.7..1.
9.......3
.1..9.52.
..72...8.
.26....35
...4.9...

and this is the solution

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672145398
145983672
389762451
263574819
958621743
714398526
597236184

It looks to me like your link refers to the wrong puzzle. In that case you would have to change your link or write out the original puzzle manually'.

Leren

[quyet1990]

http://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudoku.htm?bd=127539864459286700368100259913452678675008402842600590586000127294761385731825946

Because, the link I posted is not complete, it will be something else. This is the soduku that I want solve.

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+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|    1   2   7 |    5   3   9 |    8   6   4 |
|    4   5   9 |    2   8   6 |    7  13  13 |
|    3   6   8 |    1  47  47 |    2   5   9 |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|    9   1   3 |    4   5   2 |    6   7   8 |
|    6   7   5 |   39  19   8 |    4  13   2 |
|    8   4   2 |    6  17  37 |    5   9  13 |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|    5   8   6 |   39  49  34 |    1   2   7 |
|    2   9   4 |    7   6   1 |    3   8   5 |
|    7   3   1 |    8   2   5 |    9   4   6 |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+

[JasonLion]

As before, this puzzle has two solutions. You can not proceed further with logic alone since logic provides no way to choose between the two solutions.

[Leren]

Your amended link comes up on Andrew Stewart's site with the puzzle as you describe. If you click on the Solution Count button it will show you that it has 2 solutions.

They are :

127539864
459286713
368147259
913452678
675918432
842673591
586394127
294761385
731825946

and

127539864
459286731
368174259
913452678
675398412
842617593
586943127
294761385
731825946

The puzzle has so many clues it is hard to believe that it was an original puzzle - it looks like a puzzle that was partially solved but has a mistake somewhere. Maybe Andrew posted an invalid puzzle.

Leren

[quyet1990]

Thank Leren very much. I understand their problems encountered