I entered this in the Simple Sudoku and when I asked for a hint, the message I got was "No hint available". When I asked for a hint in the Astraware program, it highlighted the following two cells: (row4, col 4) and (row 8, col 4). What is my next step here?
Here is the puzzle as far as I was able to progress:
9.8|7..|324
6.2|...|978
473|829|561
---+---+---
381|...|246
79.|2.1|835
52.|.8.|719
---+---+---
139|452|687
865|...|492
247|..8|153
Here is the puzzle with pencil marks:
{9} {15} {8} {7} {16} {56} {3} {2} {4}
{6} {15} {2} {135} {134} {345} {9} {7} {8}
{4} {7} {3} {8} {2} {9} {5} {6} {1}
{3} {8} {1} {59} {79} {57} {2} {4} {6}
{7} {9} {46} {2} {46} {1} {8} {3} {5}
{5} {2} {46} {36} {8} {346} {7} {1} {9}
{1} {3} {9} {4} {5} {2} {6} {8} {7}
{8} {6} {5} {13} {137} {37} {4} {9} {2}
{2} {4} {7} {69} {69} {8} {1} {5} {3}