cute little puzzle. solved by hand, no computer assistance, no pencil marks
using eleven's method, write A,B,C in block 7 which correspond to 1,2,3 in some order, do singles in A,B,C
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+-----+-----+-----+
|4 6 7|9 5 8|B . 2|
|9 8 C|4 A B|7 5 6|
|. . 5|C 6 7|8 9 4|
+-----+-----+-----+
|5 4 9|7 8 .|6 B .|
|7 . 6|B 4 5|9 . 8|
|. 3 8|6 9 .|5 4 7|
+-----+-----+-----+
|6 5 A|8 C 9|4 7 B|
|8 9 B|A 7 4|C 6 5|
|C 7 4|5 B 6|A 8 9|
+-----+-----+-----+
in row 1, we see that B is not 2, so we can do more singles in 1,2
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+-----+-----+-----+
|4 6 7|9 5 8|B . 2|
|9 8 C|4 A B|7 5 6|
|. 2 5|C 6 7|8 9 4|
+-----+-----+-----+
|5 4 9|7 8 2|6 B .|
|7 1 6|B 4 5|9 2 8|
|2 3 8|6 9 1|5 4 7|
+-----+-----+-----+
|6 5 A|8 C 9|4 7 B|
|8 9 B|A 7 4|C 6 5|
|C 7 4|5 B 6|A 8 9|
+-----+-----+-----+
from blocks 1 and 5, B=3, C=1, so A=2, and the last 3 cells are trivial