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[Eeyore]

2** *84 516
1*6 *** 834
*8* **6 279
*** *** *61
62* 4*9 385
85* *** *27
912 5** 648
*** *** 7*2
**8 *42 1*3

I could only complete this puzzle by use of trial and error of 2 possible numbers in one space.I had exhausted all logical approaches at this point.Have I missed a logical solution from this point?Can anyone help,please?

[Animator]

Take a close look at row 6... where can the number 4, and the number 9 go?

What does this mean for the number 1 in box 4? where can the number 1 go in it?

[obtuse]

Curiously I got a little further than Eeyore albiet down a sightly different path.

2*7 98* 516
196 7** 834
*85 *** 279
7** *** *61
621 479 385
85* *** *27
912 537 648
*6* *9* 752
578 *4* 193

I seem to be struggling with column 6 and can't work out how to isolate the 4 in r1 the 6 in r3 and 2 in r9.

Tips?

[Diddlysquat]

Perhaps it was just a typing error but you don't seem to be using all the information that was originally supplied.
Row 3 column 6 is a '6' because that was given to you from the very start.
Hope that helps.

[obtuse]

I hate that.

At least it prompted me to write a couple more routines from my excel solver.

[Eeyore]

Take a close look at row 6... where can the number 4, and the number 9 go?

What does this mean for the number 1 in box 4? where can the number 1 go in it?

Thanks-followed your suggestion and solved it by logic