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[ixsetf]

Four empty boxes, three full boxes, and two partially filled boxes.

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+-------+-------+-------+
| . . 6 | . . . | . . 8 |
| . 4 . | . . . | . 1 . |
| 1 . 7 | . . . | 6 . 2 |
+-------+-------+-------+
| . . . | 1 2 3 | . . . |
| . . . | 4 5 6 | . . . |
| . . . | 7 8 9 | . . . |
+-------+-------+-------+
| 9 7 8 | . . . | 1 2 3 |
| 3 1 2 | . . . | 4 5 6 |
| 5 6 4 | . . . | 7 8 9 |
+-------+-------+-------+


This shouldn't be as difficult as the last one.

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[gurth]

A guide to notation: 467 means 4r6c7.

[eleven]

Gurth, i guess you started with a mistake 435=415 (or 4 in 75).

The puzzle is not hard to solve manually with its many bivalue cells. I did it, but as usual i saw later, that common solvers found shorter chains (in boxes 2 and 7 like me).