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[JPF]

Yes, it's just a long chain of naked singles.

r8c6-r8c2-r5c2-r4c1-r1c1-r3c3-r3c6-r1c4-r1c9-r2c7-r4c7-r5c9-r7c9-r9c8-r9c3-r7c3
Then it's a matter of proving an empty box is determined by 8 filled box...
(E.g. there is no possible deadly pattern left...)

Correct for the first part of the proof.
You should easily solve the second part if you read carefully this thread (Thanks to Red Ed).

JPF

[claudiarabia]

The best I could archive was this meager result:

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. . 1 . . 4 . . 6
. 2 8 9 . . 4 . .
7 . 3 . . . . 5 .
. . . . 7 5 2 . .
. . . . 3 . . . .
. . . 1 . 8 . 3 .
. . . . . . 7 6 5
. . . . . . . 8 .
1 . . . . . . . 9

Can somebody eliminate the 1 in r9c1?

With best wishes

Claudia

[JPF]

It's impossible.
This pattern

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 x x x | x x x | x x x
 x x x | x x x | x x x
 x x x | x x x | x x x
-------+-------+-------
 . . . | x x x | x x x
 . . . | x x x | x x x
 . . . | x x x | x x x
-------+-------+-------
 . . . | . . . | x x x
 . . . | . . . | x x x
 . . . | . . . | x x x

doesn't have any valid puzzle.
Any puzzle with this pattern has at least 2 solutions.

see :
http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/viewtopic.php?p=17488#p17488
http://forum.enjoysudoku.com/viewtopic.php?p=30961#p30961

JPF