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[Eioru]

I find
010 020 000 300 003 000 000 400 005 000 040 060 - two UR
I know now there are two 6x6 puzzles' difficulty 7.3 and 7.2.
So I am interesting to find puzzles' difficulty over 7.

Now I put the list below ( ALL 2Rx3C )

7.3
000 040 010 305 000 200 003 000 602 050 050 000

7.2
000 506 000 040 100 300 003 005 040 000 201 000

[udosuk]

Eioru, there are nicer ways to post puzzles!

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Two URs:

.1.|.2.
...|3..
---+---
..3|...
...|4..
---+---
..5|...
.4.|.6.

Three URs:

...|126
4..|...
---+---
15.|...
...|...
---+---
...|...
.6.|513

Also, when you post 6x6 puzzles, I think it'd be nicer to specify the box dimensions (2rx3c in this case)...

[Pat]

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...|126
4..|...
---+---
15.|...
...|...
---+---
...|...
.6.|513

where can i put a 4 in box 2 ??

[udosuk]

where can i put a 4 in box 2 ??

My mistake... Should be this instead (I guess?)...

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..|.1|26
4.|..|..
15|..|..
--+--+--
..|..|..
..|..|..
.6|.5|13

Okay, so I guess it's very clever, you're only given the 36 cells, and then you have to decide yourself that if it's 2rx3c or 3rx2c...

[Jean-Christophe]

Can't be this either.
No place for a 6 in box 1 !
I also checked for a latin square (no boxes), it does not have a unique solution.

Eioru, something is wrong there !

[udosuk]

Blah... Didn't look carefully...

[Eioru]

1UR+1UL
100 000 020 040 200 000 000 001 040 050 000 006
000 000 030 002 600 000 000 020 400 006 050 300

2UR+1UL
000 120 000 000 040 000 010 005 000 000 600 513
000 120 000 000 004 000 010 005 000 000 600 513
000 100 002 000 000 201 005 060 300 500 000 020

2UR+2UL
400 126 000 000 150 000 000 000 000 000 000 513

4UR
000 020 000 000 030 005 010 000 006 002 005 006

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...|126
4..|...
---+---
15.|...
...|...
---+---
...|...
.6.|513

where can i put a 4 in box 2 ??

Sorry, I will delete it.

[Eioru]

Though it doesn't have 7 difficulty, it has a BUG and 3 Forcing-X-chain.

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410 003
063 000
024 001
000 040
001 300
000 000

[Pat]

I am interesting to find puzzles with difficulty over 7.

hi Eioru,
you haven't defined your measure of difficulty,
what does "over 7" mean to you?



a couple of tough examples were posted at

6x6 su dokus - how hard can they be?

- are they tough enough for you?

[Jean-Christophe]

100 000 020 040 200 000 000 001 040 050 000 006
This one has 7 solutions

000 000 030 002 600 000 000 020 400 006 050 300
This one has 9 solutions

I didn't check any further, but I guess most have multiple solutions.

Note : you cannot use any uniqueness based techniques like UR or BUG to prove (or check) some puzzle has a unique solution since these techniques assume this is the case.

[udosuk]

It seems Eioru is using Sudoku Explainer to run those 6x6 puzzles (by cramming in 7,8,9 in certain boxes/rows/columns and ignoring the program's warning that there are multiple values somewhere)... Perhaps that's why he/she keep posting invalid puzzles... Could somebody suggest a good software which can deal with 6x6 puzzles reliably? Ruud? JC?

[Eioru]

It seems Eioru is using Sudoku Explainer to run those 6x6 puzzles (by cramming in 7,8,9 in certain boxes/rows/columns and ignoring the program's warning that there are multiple values somewhere)... Perhaps that's why he/she keep posting invalid puzzles... Could somebody suggest a good software which can deal with 6x6 puzzles reliably? Ruud? JC?

That is right. So sad!

[Eioru]

you haven't defined your measure of difficulty,
what does "over 7" mean to you?

by SE, but now I feel that way is wrong
maybe the UR and UL can't exist in 6x6 puzzle.

a couple of tough examples were posted at

6x6 su dokus - how hard can they be?

- are they tough enough for you?

The 2 puzzle I post on top post.

[r.e.s.]

Could somebody suggest a good software which can deal with 6x6 puzzles reliably? Ruud? JC?

Rubylips' solver & composer at act365.com/sudoku/ can be configured for various box-sizes, including these 2x3. Its copy/paste interface is a bit unusual, though -- after configuring the box-size, click "copy", then paste the puzzle into the window that opens, then click "paste", then solve. It reads puzzles in the format of the one at the link Pat gave, or in the linear format Eioru is using.

[Pat]

and how about this one,
is it tough enough?
i still don't know how you rate them---

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. 1 2 | . 5 .
3 . 5 | 1 . 2
------+------
. . 1 | . . .
. . . | 2 . .
------+------
1 . 3 | 5 . 6
. 5 . | 3 . .