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[CarolineMary]

Some of us use dots to assist in Sudoku solution.

I will pencil in a dot in the appropriate place to indicate that a cell cannot be a specific number.

So for example a cell that contains the layout below could be a 5 or 9.

...
_..
..

(Sorry, I know that's probably teaching granny to suck eggs, but I thought it best to explain fully.)

My question is this. Would it be possible to produce a solveable grid that has no actual starting numbers, merely dots indicating two numbers could go in the relevant cells?

(Edit: It lookes like leading spaces go missing, so I replaced with an underscore)

[dukuso]

use {code} ..picture in ascii-art.. {code}
with [] instead of {} as here:

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yes, I think it can probably be done but I'm too lazy to figure out an actual example. Maybe later. Or maybe Tso knows this
sort of puzzle already...


edit: it doesn't look good with points, so I try it with "*" :

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* * *
*   *
* *




[tso]

See this post:

http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/viewtopic.php?t=1033

The puzzle DIGIT PLACE can be considered an example of exactly what you suggest.

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(.23456)(...456)(123456)|(.23.56)(1.3456)(...456)
(.23456)(123456)(123456)|(1234..)(123456)(123456)
------------------------+------------------------
(.23.56)(123456)(.23456)|(...456)(.234..)(...456)
(.2...6)(.23.56)(.23.56)|(123456)(.2...6)(123456)
------------------------+------------------------
(123456)(.2...6)(.2...6)|(123456)(.234..)(.234..)
(.23456)(...456)(...456)|(123456)(...456)(.2...6)

Another one is here:
http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/viewtopic.php?t=995&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15