Ngisa wrote:5*r9c8 – ((5=3*)r3c8,-(5)r9c6)) = (5-3)r7c6 = r8c6 – r8c79 = (3-6)r7c7 = (6*)r9c7 – (6*5*=1)r9c6 – (1=7)r9c2 – (7=1*4*)r7c24 – (1345)r7c8 => - 5r9c8; stte
For me it was fun to follow this creative way to manually solve the puzzle. One often forgets that takes ingenuity to find
manually such path! Instead of emptying the cell r7c8 [4 digits to eliminate!], another way would be to assume (5)r9c8 in order to show that no 3 in row 7 is true. Two 3s in row 7 get eliminated easily [using (35)r3c8 and the ALS (156)r39c6]. The difficulty is just to eliminate (3)r7c7, but that can be accomplished without need of memory terms. Of course, I understand completely that one may wish to show something more challenging (like emptying the r7c8) for fun, and certainly fun it is!